Sentences with phrase «bastions against»

In Steven Kelliher's secondary world only a handful of walled towns remain as the last bastions against the night, and the dwindling population of Emberfolk struggle to defend their secluded homes from the Dark Kind.

But it is also this epic but noble battle that Saraki's Senate — the most diminished in the democratic history of Nigeria since 1960 — is trying to constitute a foolish bastion against.

Pop Art and Minimalism may have thrived on mass production, while painting may have prided itself as the last bastion against it.

It was considered extremely meritorious to commission a stepwell, an earthbound bastion against Eternity, and it's believed that a quarter of these wealthy or powerful philanthropists were female.

In North Carolina, collaborative divorce proceedings have become something of a conflict - resolution bastion against the «litigation creep» that took over mediation.

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Contrasted against Washington's chaotic budget process, Ottawa looks like a bastion of sanity.

We've work too long and too hard making this country a bastion of freedom and tolerance to let a small minority of unrelenting hater - mongers manipulate us and turn us against ourselves and our principles.

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.

In the last election, Cohen ran a close race against Oppenheimer, winning the endorsement of the New York Times — not exactly a conservative bastion — in part because Oppenheimer had «too little to show for her years in Albany,» an editorial in the newspaper commented.

In chapter 30, Ravitch defends the role of local school boards as historic bastions of democracy and argues against centralized school reform.

Unfortunately for mankind, they have been losing against this deadly force and 18 - months since the fall of the last human city, Marcus and his elite team of soldiers must save the last bastion of mankind.

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.

Design your own bastion, man the cannons and defend yourselves again against the Red King.

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

The traditional bastion of sober second thought — our courts — are facing an all - out assault against judicial discretion with mandatory minimum sentences and the wholesale pillaging of the conditional sentence regime.

Yes, says Roy Den Hollander, a New York lawyer who's suing Columbia University, a «bastion of bigotry against men.»

His complaint calls the women's studies program «a bastion of bigotry against men» that «demonizes men and exalts women in order to justify discrimination against men based on collective guilt.»

State rules against subjective claims «remain one of the last bastions of restrictions on attorneys» advertising,» Stern asserts.

Although all educational institutions have a history of centers of inquiry, it would be incorrect to simplify that by saying they were bastions of thought against previous illiberal eras.

ACI suggests that, contrary to being the last bastion of the good - faith infringer against the greedy patent troll, laches may actually create a perverse incentive for industry juggernauts to drag smaller, poorer patentees through endless negotiations for the purpose of claiming a defense of laches once those negotiations fall apart.

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.