Sentences with phrase «bastion in»

The city's protection as a liberal bastion in the center of the state by Union soldiers during the Civil War has seen its statue maintained today as a progressive, liberal bastion.

About... A conservative bastion in the liberal state of California is difficult to find.

God knows, Ontario is the last bastion in the world of protestant probity that forbids people from doing so — and frankly countries with healthier attitudes towards alcohol have fewer drinking problems.

Third, science teachers are the critical bastion in the war against reason.

It's very Bastion in presentation and that's definitely a good thing for the visuals.

It seemed like Dimensions was the last bastion in the crumbling experimental toys - to - life genre of gaming.

Victor Vran is reminiscent of Bastion in the way its combat and characters work, but it also attempts something similar to the reactive narrator that made Bastion famous.

Supergiant Games set the bar for themselves at a high level when they released Bastion in 2011.

You can now play Bastion in your browser.

You can get through Bastion in an evening or two.

I'm in between Xbox's at the moment (I've had seven, and thanks for caring, Microsoft), so you can imagine my alarm upon watching the stream of great «Summer of Arcade» titles float by - Bastion in particular - and not being able to give them a spin.

On this trip, guests will visit nine UNESCO World Heritage Sites including the Fishermen's Bastion in Budapest, known for its stunning panoramic views and the enormous Würzburg Residenz.

Drive to Cochin for two nights at the 4 - star boutique «CGH Earth» Hotel Eighth Bastion in Fort Cochin.

From then it grew through the medieval ages into a Royal Palace before becoming an important bastion in the defence of the nation from Ottoman advancement in the 16th century.

The last bastion in naturally occurring non-toxic flea killing weaponry: natural flea spray.

It was then, Mosley said, that «I realized that they were the last bastion in America to stand up for our freedom.

GameSpot hooks up with Games Done Quick and Speedrunner Vulajin attempts to beat Bastion in under 20 minutes.

Cameron was also asked if he could promise to stick to his pledge to retain defence spending at 2 % of GDP in the next parliament, on a trip that saw him pay a farewell visit to Camp Bastion in Afghanistan and the RAF base at Akrotiri in Cyprus where Tornados that have been bombing in Iraq are based.

And then there were the triumphs of last month's local government elections - the fall of Labour's bastion in Sheffield, to add to Liverpool last year, and big gains in traditional Labour towns like Chesterfield, Durham, Bristol and Leeds.

The agreement ends a seven - year feud between the IDC and mainline Democrats that allowed Republicans to hold on to the Senate, their last bastion in New York state government.

Democrats already control the Assembly and hold the offices of governor, comptroller and attorney general, leaving the Senate as the GOP's last bastion in Albany.

Charles Kaboré, the club's bastion in holding midfield, will miss this Thursday's match.

These teen - age males seem to be the last bastion in the long history of the sexual exploitation of women.

It is one of the best - preserved medieval bastions in Spain.

The V5C log book is one of the last paper bastions in an increasingly digitised motoring world: here's what you need to know

Today we transfer by coach to Ávila, home of one of the best - preserved medieval bastions in Spain.

Not exact matches

At the moment, AIMCo has close to $ 80 billion in assets under management, an important bastion of stability in a province prone to booms and busts, where many families are right now worrying about their jobs and savings.

Edward H. Bastian BAS - tion Bastian is the CEO of Delta Airlines, and his last name is pronounced the same as the word «bastion,» as in, «a bastion of industry.»

«In a sea of global political uncertainty,» says David Rosenberg, Chief Economist and Strategist with Gluskin Sheff in Toronto, «Canada stands out as a bastion of stability.&raquIn a sea of global political uncertainty,» says David Rosenberg, Chief Economist and Strategist with Gluskin Sheff in Toronto, «Canada stands out as a bastion of stability.&raquin Toronto, «Canada stands out as a bastion of stability.»

After a shooting that left several people wounded at the southern edge of Tepito — a rough neighborhood known as a bastion of the Sante Muerte faith — 200 police officers were dispatched, shutting down streets and searching alleys and buildings in pursuit of suspects who fled the scene.

Management ideology is, in essence, the last bastion of American hegemony.

They are bastions of financial strength in times of trouble.

Many see live sports as the last bastion of stability in a broadcasting industry undergoing a digital upheaval.

* China is apparently the bastion of honest price discovery in the gold market and corrupt Western bankers apparently wait for the Chinese to go on vacation before launching their bear raids.

Check this quran quote 33:26 And He brought down (the ones) of the population of the Book (Or: Family of the Book, i.e., the Jews and christians) who backed them from their bastions, and hurled horror in their hearts; a group you killed and (another) group you (made) captive.

33:26 And He brought down (the ones) of the population of the Book (Or: Family of the Book, i.e., the Jews and christians) who backed them from their bastions, and hurled horror in their hearts; a group you killed and (another) group you (made) captive.

So I'm guessing I should believe that an organization that protects pedophiles is the last bastion of morality in the country?

We are pathetic in the streams of biased fundamentalists and egocentric magnanomists with a big heaping of serventile bastions!

Religion along with rehab are truly the last bastions of refuge for a scoundrel in modern times.

Faced with dwindling numbers and an ageing infrastructure, especially in the traditionally strong Catholic bastions of the nation's largest cities, painful decisions must be made about how best to continue the mission of proclaiming the Gospel in a dramatically different cultural setting.

Fortunately I was able to find the perfect wedding outfit at a nice, normal department store — Dillard's, that Southern bastion — where I located a sparkly long - sleeved jacket and long, slinky pencil skirt that were festive, age - appropriate, and — yes — modest in my view.

In the Reagan era, extreme free - enterprise ideology, which has always been popular with entrepreneurs and small business people, is staging a takeover of the more exalted bastions of American finance.

The irony was striking: In what used to be a bastion of government secrecy, I was casually being shown a document central to the economic structure of the republic.

As Schama notes, Rembrandt's move from Leiden to Amsterdam took him from a bastion of Reformed conservatism to a polyglot capital in which the Remonstrants dominated politics and mercantile pragmatism made it sensible to tolerate anyone who offered a good deal, whether Mennonite, Jew, millenarian or Calvinist — anyone, that is, except Roman Catholics, who were required to practice their faith in clandestine sanctuaries disguised within private homes.

In my opinion, the only reason the male bastion of the clergy holds the scriptural position that it does is to protect the power base, a very human trait for a very human group, and quite unChirstian — but I'm just sayin»

In one of his last writings, Niebuhr describes «the guiding principle» of his mature life in relating religious responsibility to political affairs, as a «strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges» (Man «s Nature and His Communities [Scribners, 1965], pp. 24 - 25In one of his last writings, Niebuhr describes «the guiding principle» of his mature life in relating religious responsibility to political affairs, as a «strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges» (Man «s Nature and His Communities [Scribners, 1965], pp. 24 - 25in relating religious responsibility to political affairs, as a «strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges» (Man «s Nature and His Communities [Scribners, 1965], pp. 24 - 25).

As populations shift, as overall church adherence expands, and as religious forces rearrange themselves, these bastions of an earlier, heavily Northern and Eastern Establishment will «decline» further from the amazing degree of domination they enjoyed in the first part of the 20th century.

He thinks the reason may be what someone else here cited - that the rest of the environment in the U.S. has become highly integrated - schools, workplace, etc., and the church is the last bastion where they feel they can relax and everything seem like «old home week» — i.e. «family».

Sojourners, the bastion of evangelical progressivism, has found itself in a maelstrom of criticism.

Holloway argued that when the objects of are experience are «plumbed to [their] depths by empirical science the last bastion of Greek... philosophy was and is under siege» (Perspectives in Philosophy, Vol.