Sentences with phrase «bastion where»

For history buffs, there's plenty to do, like visiting Fort Sumter, a Federal bastion where the first shots of the Civil War rang out.

When most people think of New York, they think of New York City, a liberal bastion where enrolled Democrats outnumber Republicans by about 5 to 1.

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».

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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.

«If government bonds are not going to be the thing that drives your return and are not necessarily the bastion of diversification - where do you go next?

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.

We see as much on our tony college campuses and other bastions of progressivism where the cultural engineering promises racial harmony and the erasure of any male - female difference through speech codes, indoctrination, and 24/7 intimidation of dissent.

I don't recall exactly where, but it was definitely a thing that was going around a while ago on your forums and comment sections and such - like bastions of authoritative information.

The club where he learned to play golf, and where he caddied for his father and his father's friends, was the Kansas City Country Club, a WASP bastion of substance and conservatism.

Live, televised sporting events represent the last bastion of programming where a captive audience actually watches in real time, eyes glued to the screen, rather than via DVR where ads can be skipped over with the simple push of a button.

But their Igbo counterparts, at best, have hee - hawed, claiming Igboland is a republican bastion; where everyone presses his republican right to say anything and do anything, without regard or recourse to others, in the Nigerian space.

Baseball is the last bastion of purity, a place where we take our children and now the President of the Yankees is supporting Christine Quinn's agenda?

One answer to Quinn's question: Progressives believe (with some cause) that Cuomo has abetted GOP control of the State Senate by coddling the turncoat Democrats of the IDC and approving gerrymandered district maps that aid upstate Republicans — and (with indisputable cause) that Albany is a bastion of corruption where well - heeled interests (most conspicuously, New York City developers) can purchase favors at bargain prices.

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.

In an age where we can Google our way through most things, there are still some bastions of brainpower that win out over technology

And finally, the coup de grace of his career was in that bastion of character actor bliss, HBO's Deadwood where he was the rival saloon owner who was the boss of the marvelous Ricky Jay as a dealer of cards.

Every site has those «you should buy it» lists where games like Limbo, Braid, Castle Crashers, Bastion, and Trials HD sit, but sometimes with other games you're still not convinced.

Where trackdays are the last bastion of the thrill - seeking UK motorist, Americans get another option: spend a day hacking around in the wilderness, free to do largely as you please.

In an era where old coin - op games are harder and harder to find and pinball machines are all but extinct, Ground Kontrol is one of the last bastions of gaming's first golden age.

The hotel is less than a 10 minute walk from Buda Castle district where the Royal Palace, St Matthias Church and Fisherman's Bastion are located.

Arrive into Los Angeles this morning, where you are picked up by coach for a half - day tour of this bastion of entertainment.

Fast forward another 5 years to Darius Mason where he's running a rather profitable business in Bastion, the massive underground hub where he deals in dangerous (read: stupid) missions, if it's suicidal or just downright dumb Darius is your man.

Following the city's emergency plan you make your way to the eponymous Bastion; A safe haven where survivors can gather and rebuild.

I've fallen back to a weekly bastion of creativity, a ritual where I set 60/90/120 minutes aside to write, brainstorm, or whatever.

You head for a place called the Bastion, where your people were supposed to go in case anything ever went wrong.

In Bastion, the combat has much more of an action - oriented feel, where you'll have to keep moving to evade or defend against your foes, take advantage of the terrain you're fighting in, and attack when you see an opening.

Bastion launched on December 9, 2011 on the Chrome Web Store, where you could play the game right in your browser!

Our team is back from an exciting whirlwind weekend in Los Angeles where Bastion racked up three wins at the Inside Gaming Awards, followed by three wins at the Spike Video Game Awards!

Once you've gotten through the story, you can decide whether you like Bastion enough to flex its New Game Plus mode, which is where it lets you loose to play with all its toys however you like.

Bastion is an isometric action role - playing game where you pick up the pieces after an apocalyptic event - called the Calamity - which has splintered the beautiful lands of Caelondia into floating fragments in the sky and filled them with angry critters.

I was always excited to see where they came from, to see how Hollow Bastion looked before all the chaos began, when it was known as Radiant Garden.

When it was first leveraged as a way to earn money to fund the development of independent video games, it was lauded as the new bastion for indie game development, a ray of light in a place where so many small developers struggled to gain any traction on their projects.

In 2006 in Milan, Simons showed his debut women's wear collection for Jil Sander, where, as creative director, he turned the respected but lagging brand into a bastion of principled chic.

My only real disappointment with this article is the quotation from the Grauniad, that well known bastion of climate truth, where yet again they try to make a case out of some vague survey.

The process of degrading science into a state controlled pseudo-scientific faith has turned whole institutions into bastions of Lysenkoism where workers, researchers, teachers and bureaucrats toil in a climate of cultural terror and oppression, at least, for anyone who can still think outside the orthodox frame.

I now return to my retreat in a place oft - described as a bastion of academic arrogance, where the depth and breadth of knowledge of every one of the graduate students I've met, so far, is breath - taking.

I said they were bastions of free inquiry, in a world where such inquiry was generally not free.

In a cashless society, bitcoin would become the last financial bastion of freedom in a world where the global financial system is under complete control of governments.

For the chaebol, it means going against price cuts and the world of the unlocked phone and really hitting the US market where the bastions are: the carriers.

Players can create bastions of chaotic goodness where everyone is friendly and merry, or rule their lands with an iron and lawful evil fist so their subjects are orderly and subjugated.

It is the last bastion of dreams that are described in plain language, where potential is discussed in pleasant conversations, over coffee.

Yes, there is a bright side to the real estate downturn gripping many areas in the U.S., which is also permeating most of Canada, where even the bastion of rising prices and low days on market — Toronto — is crumbling.