Sentences with phrase «as bulwarks»

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.

This raises serious questions for those in the democracy promotion community about why legislatures trained in democracy and human rights issues have failed to act as bulwarks to authoritarian abuse — and what can be done about it.

As social institutions they are more important as bulwarks of achieved social values than as instruments of change.

The Huffington Post: Belief In Hell Lowers Crime Rate, According To International Study Religions are thought to serve as bulwarks against unethical behaviors.

Facebook (fb) chief executive Mark Zuckerberg laid out a vision on Thursday of his company serving as a bulwark against rising isolationism, writing in a letter to users that the company's platform could be the «social infrastructure» for the globe.

Egypt is a strategic U.S. partner because of its control of the Suez Canal and Sisi presents himself as a bulwark against Islamist militants in the region.

The daughter of the famed poet Lord Byron, Lovelace's mother had her thoroughly schooled in math and sciences as a bulwark against the young woman exhibiting too many of her dad's literary tendencies.

Kant's approach may hold at bay the antihumanism of modern science (we are just clever animals in an insignificant corner of a vast cosmos), and it may serve as a bulwark against the ruthless rationality of economic efficiency and the putative demands of progress, but Michalson concludes that Kant's approach to the question of God makes theology less and not more plausible.

I think he and people around him have a sense that the church's pendulum swung too far toward the firm reassertion of Catholic rules and vision of the Church as a bulwark against the turbulence of modernity and so on.

God can never be used as the bulwark for democracy.

Even as early as his 1845 Essay on the Development of Doctrine, written while he was still an Anglican but already more than halfway out the door (he became a Catholic while the book was still in the printery), he was defending the idea of infallibility, and precisely as a bulwark against infidelity in all its forms:

13:1) would be taken nineteen centuries later as a bulwark of conservatism.

Some French Catholics saw Hitler as a bulwark against atheist Bolshevism: The last line of defense as the Red Army advanced on the bunker beneath the Chancellery in Berlin was manned by Frenchmen from the Charlemagne Division of the Waffen SS, who rose from their trenches to meet the Russian tanks with the cry of «Long live Christ the King!»

Finally, to trigger that protective tribalist reflex that Carroll saw as a bulwark against defection, the church must make its members aware of secularism's intolerance of belief.

The characters about which Toomer writes are caught up in the social order of Jim Crow and yet they manage to tap into the deeper, spiritual rhythms that stand as a bulwark against the prevailing order.

A recurring theme in Alvis's book is that of Poland as the bulwark of Christendom.

The absence of the appearance of significant new monastic movements and of «heresies» as potent as those of the Cathari and the Waldenses, and the waning of the Papacy, culminating for the time in the Avignon Papacy, were paralleled by developments in scholastic theology which seemed to herald the breakdown of that approach as a bulwark of the Christian faith.

In the course of the century Slavophiles, who wished Russia to free itself from the cultural influence of the West, were devoted to the Russian Orthodox Church as a bulwark against the alien currents.

Georgia's process of identity formation, as a bulwark of Christianity against the Islamic world, naturally led it to view itself as part of a greater whole, Christendom, defined against the East — the land of its enemy.

That will make for a stronger parliament, as a bulwark against an increasingly over-mighty Executive.

With these scenarios in mind, the new emerging Arab leadership needs to create genuine democratic expectations as a bulwark against corruption and oligarchy.

The governor has for years taken a laissez - faire approach to the Senate leadership structure, and some progressives charge he encouraged Klein's alliance with Republicans as a bulwark for his own centrist policies — particularly during his first term.

Glenwood has relied on the Senate Republican conference as a bulwark for several key issues it has before the Legislature, including a lucrative tax break given in exchange for the building of affordable housing.

Centuries of an independent civil service, acting as a bulwark to politicians and their advisers, have been subverted over the past decade, so with their hands directing the levers of power, Government becomes a dirty, grubby, ugly business.

De Blasio, facing re-election this year, has styled himself as a bulwark against Trump for the last several months.

Since elevated levels of the klotho protein appear to improve cognition throughout the lifespan, raising klotho levels could build cognitive reserve as a bulwark against the disease.

Consider that the corn silo Arlo's family constructs as bulwark against starvation is infiltrated, easily, by Spot.

When art, by sheer dint of its existence, can, at its best, genuinely function as a tool of ennoblement, of resistance, as a bulwark against the noxious ooze pouring out of Washington, it's frustrating to watch same old practices played out in the face of obvious opportunity to do something better.

An expressed commitment to more distributed leadership may, for example, conflict with a deeper, hidden commitment to preserving decision - making autonomy at the top of an organization as a bulwark against the erosion of senior managements» status and rewards.

• Policymakers often defend public schools as more democratic and diverse than private schools, but in the past public schools served as a restrictive mode of socialization — for instance, when they were advocated as a bulwark against private Catholic schooling.

That's a big deal, because just as Netflix and Hulu are now being forced to delay content in order to appease traditional sales channels, physical comic retailers had been using their exclusive access to the latest and greatest comics as a bulwark against the inevitable move to digital.

Until now, the three Musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis have stood as a bulwark against the encroaching evil, their swords defending the innocent and helpless.

Regardless of rate increases, fixed income should remain a consideration in investor portfolios to help act as a bulwark against equity volatility.

But perhaps the most important reason to continue to hold bonds is that, rising rates or no, bonds still fulfill what for long - term investors is their most important function: They act as a bulwark against the volatility of the stock market.

This was mainly an exercise in getting more sensible estimates published in a major journal using the IPCC's own numbers as a bulwark against the more pessimistic and speculative numbers which are usually published.

See also Ayako Mie & Jesse Johnson, Amid South China Sea Spat, Japan Foreign Aid White Paper Stresses Importance of Sea Lanes, JAPAN TIMES (Tokyo), Mar. 11, 2016 («experts say Japan's pledge to help secure sea lanes — especially those in the South China Sea — reflects its intention to shore up regional alliances as a bulwark against an increasingly bellicose China.»)

The Economist noted last November that «an unexpected by - product of Mr. Zuma's scandal - plagued presidency has been a growing public interest in the justice system...» The judiciary, said the newspaper, had acted «as a bulwark for South African democracy at a time when other institutions, including the police and state prosecutors, have been compromised.»

But the power jurors enjoy, their role as the conscience of the community and as a bulwark against the enforcement of oppressive laws, means that their duties can not be expressed purely in adjudicative terms.

Yet the Supreme Court has explicitly recognized that jurors have the power to refuse to apply the law, are the conscience of their community, and serve as a bulwark against oppressive laws and their enforcement.

However, in exceptional cases, when acting as the conscience of the community and as a bulwark against oppressive laws and their enforcement, jurors may properly refuse to apply the law as written.

But since it exists and is more than simply a possible wrong a jury could commit, then we have to think seriously about whether we do enough to ensure it's exercised only when it ought to be — i.e., as a bulwark against oppressive laws and the conscience of the community.

The Court, however, saw it as a bulwark against a threat to its character.

The SFO needs a safe harbour as a bulwark against widespread disquiet that it is condoning two - tier justice, one rule for big companies, another for individuals.

Whitepapers serve as a bulwark against this unethical behaviour.

Several years ago Facebook started to limit what apps could scrape from friends» profiles even with permission, but the basic configuration of user consent as a bulwark against abuse hasn't changed.

«By hewing to the statute, this Strategic Plan provides the Bureau a ready roadmap, a touchstone with a fixed meaning that should serve as a bulwark against the misuse of our unparalleled powers.»

It stands today as a bulwark of national strength, community progress, and societal continuity.

Not exact matches

In 2016, for example, Kyrgyzstan canceled a project with several Russian companies to build five hydropower plants, citing the Russian entities» inability to secure financing.28 In Tajikistan, the Russian military has periodically been unable to pay its local Tajik staff at its base there, even though the base purportedly serves as a key bulwark in Russia's defense against regional instability.29 That same year, Moscow pledged over $ 1 billion in security assistance to Dushanbe and promised to increase its troop presence in the country by 2,000 soldiers.30 Yet neither appears to have materialized, which raises questions about Russia's true capacity and willingness to respond to a security crisis in the region and to project influence there.

The officials said Kelly portrays himself to Trump administration aides as the lone bulwark against catastrophe, curbing the erratic urges of a president who has a questionable grasp on policy issues and the functions of government.

Thus there is real truth in what Father Neuhaus says here: «This reluctance to press for conversions was a constant in Newman's thought, as was his view that the Church of England was, while not part of the one true Church of Christ, a valuable «bulwark» against infidelity.