Sentences with phrase «remaining bastion»

The painter Ellen Wiener and the poet LB Thompson live among a close - knit circle of artists in what's locally dubbed the un-Hamptons, the last remaining bastion of quiet hamlets stretching along the North Fork of Eastern Long Island, New York.

The sheer drop from the remaining bastion to the clear emerald waters below is about a hundred feet.

I've just made the switch to Kobo (actually was forced to... I've resisted so far but the last remaining bastion of non-Kobo in Australia has just «done a Sony» and put it's business in Kobo's hands... Worst.

The Senate is the last remaining bastion of power for the Republicans in state government.

Because Andrea Stewart - Cousins, leader of the mainline Democrats, had already agreed to the terms of the state party blueprint when it was rolled out Monday evening, Klein's statement seemed to clear the way for a shift in power in the last remaining bastion of Republican power in state government.

Vietnam, one of the world's last remaining bastions of communism (along with China, North Korea, and Cuba) has gone gaga over Apple, one of the world's biggest symbols of free market capitalism and the Western lifestyle.

Just north of Panama lies the next country on our list: Costa Rica, which continues to remain a bastion for American expats.

It seems to me that it's one of the remaining bastions of hate that that some still love to protect and defend.

Without them, organic will remain the bastion of the rich and educated leaving the poorest farmers and consumers unable to benefit.

It ensures that the internet remains a bastion of free - flowing ideas and content not regulated by advertisers -LSB-...]

If anything, what our experience in the last few days has confirmed is that we can disagree without being disagreeable; and that our party may be young, but we remain the bastion of progressive politics in Nigeria.

Always the Tory heartland anyway, most of the remaining bastions of opposition in the region are now blue as well.

Embedded within Japanese mythology, Toukiden charts the ongoing war between the demonic hordes of Oni and slayers — humans charged with protected the last remaining bastions.

My graver concern however, is the fate of the last remaining bastions of earning one mile for a mile flown.

E3 remains a bastion for gamers and gaming industry associates alike.

While the legal industry remains a bastion of centralized services and data, this paradigm is diminishing.

``... what I like about the new NPR service (and how it «compliments» those other services) is that it pulls together the «wisdom of experts» at some of the last, remaining bastions of full - time, professional musicology: public radio stations.»

Are there any remaining bastions for the aspiring commercial farmer, or has this industry been locked out for the common investor?

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It must remain an exclusivist Christian bastion (Calvin College, the University of Paris circa 1250), or it must inevitably slide into full - blown secularism.

Who can deny the fact that, until his ousting from office recently, Comrade Robert Mugabe remained the last bastion of the Liberation Struggle to free the African Continent from the shackles of Imperialism?

Even in overwhelmingly Democratic New York, the last bastion of Republican power in Albany remains the Senate.

The brain remained the last bastion of the dogma that lifestyle issues don't matter when it comes to health.

Bastion remains as strong of a game as it was in 2011, but there's no need to buy this version if you already own it.

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.

Sadly I have absolutely no knowledge with which to judge how accurate the systems are, but it certainly feels realistic, mostly in that Greenland, with its freezing temperatures and single port, is almost always the last bastion of hope for humanity, remaining free of infection.

However, some bastions of linearity remained.

As the number of publishers turning to the free - to - play revenue model continued to proliferate across the mobile space, French developer, Gameloft, remained the last bastion of premium priced experiences void of in - app - purchases.

The Catholic church is not a bastion of free speech, but it remains, at least for this lapsed Catholic, a place I can go to get away from the harsh realities of the world, take a breath and, after genuflection, feel safe.

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

Alimony awards remain one of the last bastions of sexism in our family courts.

It's been an interesting couple of weeks on the West Coast, in my office; one of those infrequent but predictable series of random events that leaves you shaking your head, wondering why all around you are losing theirs, while you remain the one bastion of clear thinking and sanity.

Had large swaths of vacant neighborhoods remained unoccupied, left to rot in the sun while banks across the world sorted out ownership, thousands of streets would have become overgrown bastions of squatters and valueless real estate.