Sentences with phrase «last bulwarks»

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.

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.

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

What is stressed in all these stories is the apparently miraculous, non-determined and a-social nature of artistic achievement; this semi-religious conception of the artist's role is elevated to hagiography in the 19th - century, when both art historians, critics and, not least, some of the artists themselves tended to elevate the making of art into a substitute religion, the last bulwark of Higher Values in a materialistic world.

Zwillinger testified that the law is currently designed to make service providers like Yahoo! «the last bulwark» against overzealous surveillance, because the FISC does not have the authority to do a full review of a government directive unless a service provider first initiates a challenge.

The last bulwark before human civilisation melts into chaos.

Not exact matches

Some French Catholics saw Hitler as a bulwark against atheist Bolshevism: The last line of defense as the Red Army advanced on the bunker beneath the Chancellery in Berlin was manned by Frenchmen from the Charlemagne Division of the Waffen SS, who rose from their trenches to meet the Russian tanks with the cry of «Long live Christ the King!»

This is an admirable but rather feckless attempt to erect a bulwark against the tide of egalitarianism that has been running so strongly for the last century.

Schneiderman, first elected in 2011, has over the last year or so staked out a claim as a blue state bulwark against the policies of President Donald Trump's administration, filing legal challenges to federal laws, executive orders and regulations.

In a State of the State address in Manhattan last week — one of six he gave around the state — Mr. Cuomo appeared to be positioning himself, and the state, as a liberal bulwark against Mr. Trump's planned policies.

De Blasio, facing re-election this year, has styled himself as a bulwark against Trump for the last several months.

In an email to his staff last week, Larry Marshall, chief executive of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Canberra, «stated that up to 350 jobs could be eliminated over the next 2 years, including 110 positions in the Oceans and Atmosphere division, the bulwark of CSIRO's climate research,» Leigh Dayton reported in this week's issue of Science.

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.»