bulwark

Advocates for the designations say setting them aside now will provide a bulwark against potential attacks.

Gen. Rob Bonta and other leaders in California and like-minded states can form an important bulwark against attacks on environmental protections, much as they did eight years ago.

“California will continue to be at the forefront of progress, the bulwark of democracy, the champion of innovation and the protector of our rights and freedoms,” Schiff said.

It is the most powerful political force in Lebanon and a social movement which serves as a bulwark for Lebanon’s long-discriminated Shia communities against other sects in the country.

But he’ll “vote for him one more time as a bulwark against the cultural and governance excesses of the American left.”