Sentence examples for to bulwark from inspiring English sources

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to bulwark

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A defensive wall or rampart.

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Japan has been desperate to bulwark its fragile recovery from the March earthquake and tsunami.

(The word boulevard, related to "bulwark," originally was a military engineering term for the platform of a defensive wall).

You can, like Thompson, raise your eyes to some splendid horizon, full of wonderful technology and sales to bulwark Britain.

The central bank provided emergency loans, asset purchases and other aid totaling roughly $7.8 trillion during a two-year period ending in March 2009, easily the largest component of the government efforts to bulwark the financial system.

After a bullpen collapse dropped the Mets out of the playoffs, they handed a $37 million deal to closer Francisco Rodríguez to bulwark new Citi Field before learning that Fred Wilpon, their principal owner, had substantial financial losses through investments with Bernard L. Madoff, who is accused of contriving a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.

It is her avoidance of the exigencies of life — and her steely determination to see the world as she imagines it — that builds within her the peculiar tension against which her son, Tom (Christian Slater), tries over and over to bulwark himself.

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In fact, his appeals are crafted - intentionally or not - to appeal to a bulwark of the contemporary Republican Party.

It seemed clear then, and has only been confirmed since, that "his appeals are crafted -- intentionally or not -- to appeal to a bulwark of the contemporary Republican Party.

Royal Marine Commandos scrambled to help children as young as two and heavily pregnant women on to HMS Bulwark, which had been dispatched to the region as the UK's contribution to the international response to the migrant crisis.

In addition to offering Bulwark, Britain has sent three Merlin helicopters to Sicily to help with reconnaissance operations.

The sea, which encircles the British Isles...has not proved to be a sufficient bulwark to bar the way to this subtle enemy.

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