Sentences with phrase «bulwark at»

O'Brien was a bulwark at RKO Pictures in the 1930s and early 1940s, making a series of solid B - Westerns that showcased his athletic ability and humor.

Legislators consider Degnan to be their last bulwark at the Port Authority against Cuomo's machinations, and their best hope for a new bus terminal to serve New Jersey commuters.

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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.

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.

The great cultures of the ancient world lay at the two ends, Babylonia near where the sweep of the Zagros Mountains terminates its length of eastern bulwark and barrier to the Semitic world, and Egypt nestling among her brooding deserts at the northeast corner of Africa in the perennial delight of her sunny clime and her life - giving river.

His masterworks — On Christian Teaching, The Confessions, The Trinity, and The City of God — became bulwarks of Christian education in the West, and eventually served as the intellectual foundation for the first universities at Paris, Oxford, and Cambridge in the later Middle Ages.

But Cornwell always did have the gift of being intensely irritating to many who love the Church, of mounting violent assaults, often at first effectively, against the most seemingly unassailable bulwarks of the Catholic tradition, in a way which has sometimes made him seem a real threat.

But when we gravely ask ourselves whether this wholesale organization of irrationality and crime be our only bulwark against effeminacy, we stand aghast at the thought, and think more kindly of ascetic religion.

In the telling of liberal activists, who hope New York will become a left - leaning bulwark against Mr. Trump, Mr. Cuomo has made only a watered - down effort at establishing a solid Democratic majority in the State Senate.

When I look over the edge at low tide, the water is a good 15 feet below the bulwark.

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.

Majula is the last bulwark against the world's decay, and a simple one at that.

by Bryant Frazer Death Wish director Michael Winner tried his hand at a boilerplate horror flick with The Sentinel, another in the long - running cycle of American horror films that doubled as scary religious propaganda, with the faith of Catholic priests the last bulwark against harrowing incursions by Satan himself on our mortal realm.

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.

At the same time, the year saw reform bulwarks like Teach for America and the Common Core standards suffer unprecedented shocks.»

Before life at The Motley Fool, Bryan was a portfolio manager at Bulwark Capital Management, a hedge fund with an approach that balanced fundamental long - term equity investing, options income, and special situations.

Majula is the last bulwark against the world's decay, and a simple one at that.

And there was certainly a time, not so long ago, when I was also a fully paid - up McKeever Believer: his seriousness, his commitment to the act of painting, and the complete absence from his work of what the American painter Gary Stephan has dubbed «visual sarcasm» — that is, the use of paint only in order to flaunt its supposed inadequacy and redundancy — made him seem like a bulwark against the insufferable smart - alec nihilism of Richard Prince, Wade Guyton, or Christopher Wool; and against the prevailing attitudes within the Higher Education establishment at which I both teach, and study on the MA programme, where the buzz - phrase on the Fine Art Critical Studies syllabus is «post-Making»; in other words, goodbye and good riddance to all that messy business with brushes and squeegees and welding torches, once and for all.

Hipkiss: Bulwark; Terry Winters: Facts and Fictions; Eduardo Navarro: Into our cells at The Drawing Center — 35 Wooster Street, New York, NY [phone] — April 06 to July 29

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.»

At the same time, he contends, the news media could and should be the most effective bulwark against wrongful convictions.