bastion
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This is Liverpool, the supposed bastion of stability.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
An AFP correspondent heard explosions as the state-run National News Agency reported strikes on the area, a Hezbollah bastion that has largely emptied of residents since war erupted last month.
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
No one’s comfortable saying that that pop music should be a bastion of the wealthy, but solutions to that are not free-market solutions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026
For years, investors treated the Persian Gulf as a bastion of calm in a deeply unstable region.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
It reflected his genuine conviction that England was an inherently corrupt society, the bastion of monarchical power, aristocratic privilege, and courtly intrigue.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Leo's predecessor Francis largely overlooked many of Europe's traditional bastions of Catholicism where, like Spain, religious observance has been falling rapidly.
From Barron's ● Jun. 6, 2026
Tigers, so often the bastions of a physical, aggressive gameplan, have opened up, and a 13-year psychodrama that has seen almost 30 coaches come and go, might well be over too.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
Nazih Yahya, a septuagenarian resident with the wearied tone of someone long accustomed to conflict, expected the Israeli military to treat residents in non-Shiite villages differently from areas it counts as bastions of Hezbollah support.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
With record-keeping fees under pressure, he said in an interview that managed accounts are “one of the last bastions of good revenue production,” adding that record-keepers “love” participants enrolling because “the revenue is much better.”
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026
Very strong it might be, wrought of steel and iron, and guarded with towers and bastions of indomitable stone, yet it was the key, the weakest point in all that high and impenetrable wall.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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