Sentences with phrase «bastion which»

Palma has a fantastic museum of contemporary art, set in a 16th - century bastion which affords amazing views from its rooftop, as well as the amazing Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation, which combines galleries full of the artist's world - renowned artworks as well as visit to his studio.

He seeks refuge in the floating island known as the Bastion which needs to be rebuilt.

Both are Tory bastions which were flagship councils under Margaret Thatcher, but factors including the EU referendum have pushed up support for Labour, which advocates a softer position on Brexit than the Conservatives.

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Meanwhile, an entire generation of people under 30 have moved over to Instagram and tend to avoid Twitter, which is widely known as a bastion of trolls.

Just north of Panama lies the next country on our list: Costa Rica, which continues to remain a bastion for American expats.

Because CNN is a Liberal Pulpit and a bastion of anti-Catholicism, which should be illegal.

The Divinity School of the University of Chicago, which I attended, was a bastion of liberalism.

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.

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 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 - 25).

when are we going to lift the lid on this final bastion of male domination, which is fueled by male fear and insecurity?

The shift envisaged is from the de-historical post-Tridentine model of theology as the bastion of certitudes to a model in which Christian understanding of faith takes place in the midst of changing modem situations.

March 23 — Regarded as the root of everything morally correct about the German club structure, the Bundesliga has voted to retain the 50 +1 rule which has been held up as a bastion of commercial fair play.

It's a well known fact that newspapers are not exactly the bastions of truth but there are some which have proven to be more reliable than others, The Guardian is one of them.

Coming from a family that had fought on the Confederate side in the Civil War, and in his early career a bastion of the Old South which resisted every move towards civil rights for black Americans, it fell to him, as president, to put forward the most significant piece of civil rights legislation in the nation's history.

However, this was hardly surprising coming from that great bastion of West Country non-conformity, which elected an independent candidate as its inaugural mayor.

A Western NY reader forwarded this prototype campaign sign put together by the Erie County GOP, which has provided a bastion of support for Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino since the inception of his campaign for governor.

But Nana Akufo - Addo on Wednesday, in a statement signed and issued in Accra, said the result of the election, which had resulted in a change in government after eight years of the Obama - led Democratic government, had strengthened even further the status of the United States of America, as a bastion of democracy in the modern world.

But both LWR and LS cut a niche as bastions of African nationalism, which often even fired the imagination and awe of the Eko aborigines, especially when newspapers like Herbert Macaulay» sLagos Daily News, the town's first daily newspaper, fought community crusades, over land and water issues, against the British, to roaring cheer from the appreciative community.

London — a bastion of wealth which should be seduced by the party's pro-business message — is resistant to the Tories.

Because if in New York state which is a bastion of labor support, if you can get a New York City construction project that is government subsidized to be open shop, then you have really diminished union labor.

This guidance, which outlines five key principles for upholding free speech, highlights the importance of doing so in these institutions which form the bastion of education and learning in the UK.

She's from Staten Island, which by the way is the bastion of Republicanism.

The new openings compound the Republicans» task of maintaining their decades - long control of the chamber, which is the GOP's last statewide bastion of power in New York politics.

This NPR report (hardly a bastion of conservative right - wingism) cites numerous studies; none of which establishes causation.

It was its apparent indifference to «what really matters» that incited such rage and contempt amongst constituencies which had once been traditional bastions of support.»

The Mandarin Oriental's Journey Into Stillness treatment uses tuning forks and acupressure points to energetically balance the body, and the encouraged digital detox makes the spa, which overlooks the bustling Strip, feel like a bastion of serenity.

It's a park in Geneva called Parc des Bastions, which is situated between the Place de Plainpalais and the vieille ville.

Bastion (pronounced \» Bas - chen \) is named after the word, which means «a place or system in which something (such as an old - fashioned idea) continues to survive.»

Interestingly, TrumpSingles.com is based in California, which is far from a Trump bastion.

The paper, which began the decade as just another local daily with little national prominence, concluded it as an important bastion of investigative journalism.

I had never bothered much with ARPG genre apart from bastion and a brief rampage through Titan Quest with my friends in which we some how managed to screw up the entire questing system.

It was the top game on both consoles, and number three on Vita behind Persona 4 and Bastion (both of which received nice discounts during the month).

Other multiple nominees were Assassin's Creed: Revelations and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, which both received three nods, Bastion, Battlefield 3, Dance Central 2, Dark Souls, FIFA 12, From Dust, Kinect Sports: Season Two, Monstermind, The Nightjar, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Super Mario 3D Land, and Total War: Shogun 2, which each received two.

In spite of also being the masterminds behind the Max Payne series, which might as well have gotten the subtitle «we can be serious too, promise», and having released not particularly lighthearted titles like L. A. Noire and Red Dead Redemption, they're still regarded as one of the main bastions of humor in AAA gaming.

Once you've gathered enough keys, you can free whoever's imprisoned inside — which, with no explanation whatsoever, could very well be The Kid from Bastion.

And then yesterday we had the San Francisco Film Critics Circle (which continued the Curious Case of Bradley Cooper), and the Chicago Film Critics Association, which used to be the bastion of the great Roger Ebert.

Supergiant games and Warner Bros Interactive have announced a partnership which will see Bastion, the formers first game, brought to XBLA this summer.

These three states, which, along with Florida, have significantly outpaced the rest of the country in student - achievement gains since the early 1990s, are often viewed as bastions of union influence.

In Scandinavian countries, which are often regarded as bastions of education best practice, becoming a teacher is a desirable career option in the same way that becoming a doctor is.

She said not only was selection at 11 «wrong in principle», but that those areas which still had grammar schools were now «dominated by private tuition», and had become a «bastion for those who have the financial and social ability to get that tuition».

Having been a fixture in the industry for more than 80 years, Kirkus Reviews — known as the world's toughest book critics — is a bastion of literary excellence, operating as gatekeepers that assists readers, booksellers, libraries, online retailers, and library - service companies in determining which books to sell, stock, or include in their databases.

As a bastion of calm and sophisticated quietude, Villa Elegance is at times a paradox on the island of Ibiza, which is world renowned for its lively nightlife and clubs — though there is more to Ibiza than just music and dancing.

The tour is enhanced by the inclusion of some «CGH Earth» hotels, which are harmonious to the local environment with high standards - for example at the Spice Village, Periyar, the fine» 50 - mile» restaurant only uses ingredients from within 50 miles and the colonial style bar reflects its hill station history, whilst «Coconut Lagoon» is only accessible by boat and the «Eighth Bastion» lies within the Fort Cochin area.

The tour also includes Fishermen's Bastion, which features a neo-Gothic masquerade in a beguiling medieval style, despite only dating back to 1905.

The Landmark Hotel is exactly as the name suggests a building which has defined the area of Marylebone as a bastion of British elegance and the luxury hotel experience.

Trinity Square is home to 13th - century Matthias Church and the turrets of the Fishermen's Bastion, which offer sweeping views.

As a bastion of calm and sophisticated quietude, Villa Alegria is at times a paradox on the island of Ibiza, which is world renowned for its lively nightlife and clubs — though there is more to Ibiza than just music and dancing.

Guests can absorb themselves in interactive art experiences in the lobby and take advantage of YVE Hotel Miami's partnership with local Wynwood gallery Art Bastion, which will curate hotel installations with notable artists from across the globe while also offering guests art tours throughout the city.

You may remember Supergiant from such indie hits as Bastion and Transistor, both which had very unique storylines, fun gameplay, insanely good soundtracks (hey there, Darren Korb and Ashley Barrett) and pretty, pretty art.