bastion

Example Sentences

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As a Republican in San Francisco, Jay Donde describes his experience in the liberal bastion as “frustrating.”

From Los Angeles Times

Now Republicans are trying to wrest away the Democrats’ last bastion of statewide power.

From Seattle Times

Over the last two decades, the West has gone from a Republican stronghold — the ancestral home of Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, the anti-federal Sagebrush Rebellion — into a bastion of Democratic support.

From Los Angeles Times

“Eugene is a dark-blue bastion for progressive politics in the state,” said Dylan Plummer, a senior campaign representative with the Sierra Club.

From Washington Post

To its critics, particularly ultra-Orthodox Jews, the Supreme Court is seen as the last bastion of the secular, centrist elite who dominated Israel during its earliest decades.

From New York Times