bastion

Example Sentences

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The bloodiest crisis in Iran’s recent political history started in a conservative bastion: Tehran’s market area.

From The Wall Street Journal

Discovery, it is simultaneously tackling the last bastion where traditional TV has an edge over streamers: sports and live events.

From The Wall Street Journal

As a decentralized system whose channels and stations exist within the communities they serve, public media represents a last bastion of local and regional programming.

From Los Angeles Times

In Israel’s early days, Ben-Gurion’s Mapai, the bastion of Labor Zionism, “was a party with its own state,” Mr. Segal observes.

From The Wall Street Journal

In a corner of the bottom tier of the MCG, thousands waved their flags and sang their songs, creating a party atmosphere in a bastion of Australian sport.

From BBC