Sentences with phrase «great bulwark»

The legal profession, with a little help from a free media, is the great bulwark protecting our citizens from government over-reach.

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The Roman Empire, which had seemed the great bulwark of Christianity, itself dwindled and in the West largely collapsed.

The throw - weight of the Holy See, the papacy, and the Catholic Church in twenty - first - century world affairs reflects the perception that the Church has become the world's preeminent institutional defender of basic human rights — and thus the greatest bulwark, among the great world religions, to the freedom project around the globe.

Royce's former student, the writer Rollo Walter Brown, remembered, «Millions who had never seen his name until yesterday now talked of him as one of humanity's great bulwarks.»

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The great state universities, particularly those that were established as agricultural and technical institutions, as well as the independent colleges and universities, are essential bulwarks of the social order.

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.

I want to spend the next few minutes thinking about these two questions, and to guide our thoughts in doing so I want to focus on those great words written by Paul, or someone under his influence... I Timothy 3:15... «the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth.»

Georgia's process of identity formation, as a bulwark of Christianity against the Islamic world, naturally led it to view itself as part of a greater whole, Christendom, defined against the East — the land of its enemy.

Laughter is a great way to break down the bulwarks of yesterday's masculinity and find a way to his heart.

That's a big deal, because just as Netflix and Hulu are now being forced to delay content in order to appease traditional sales channels, physical comic retailers had been using their exclusive access to the latest and greatest comics as a bulwark against the inevitable move to digital.

In keeping with the universally applicable logic of John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, every online community of sufficient size will inevitably attract trolls, harassment, bullying and all manner of accordant awfulness, with the level of active moderation being literally the only bulwark against anarchy.

The Warren Court appears to make great strides in protecting marginalized communities from democratic predations, and so we produce deep tracts explaining why courts are important countermajoritarian bulwarks.

In Edwards» ninth - grade class on contemporary global issues and geography, think empathy and how acquiring a greater appreciation of diversity can be a bulwark against bullying.