It was also meant to be a sort of bulwark against what some in the industry saw as over-aggressive attempts by Microsoft to turn Windows into a walled software garden cutting Steam out of the future. (quartertothree.com)
As social institutions they are more important as bulwarks of achieved social values than as instruments of change. (religion-online.org)
Scientists report in today's Nature that carbon dioxide speeds the formation of tiny clumps of soil that act as bulwarks against erosion — and possibly as miniature storehouses for moisture and nutrients. (sciencemag.org)