Sentences with phrase «bulwarks said»

He pleaded with the court to stop the siege laid on his house and to remove all impediments, human and non-human barricade and bulwarks said to have hindered the permission granted him since November 3 to travel abroad for treatment of his ailing medical condition.

Not exact matches

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.

Just some thoughts on this: The Bible says «the church is the pillar and bulwark of the truth.»

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.

’27 Popper himself says: «The Myth of the Framework is, in our time, the central bulwark of irrationalism....

Quoting a denominational paper's editorial, the Century said: «If anxious Protestants would actually read and digest the documents of the National Council... they would come to admire rather than to suspect this bulwark of Christian Protestantism in America» (July 12, 1961).

New York state, he said, should be a bulwark against what he said was damaging federal policy and must counter efforts to roll back cuts to health care, environmental protections and safeguards of marginalized populations.

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.»

ABS would weaken that bulwark by compromising our ability to stand up and say, We are beholden to no - one but our clients (and, if you want to be cynical about it by citing some examples, to ourselves).