How To Use Bulwark In A Sentence

Mainland authorities are banking on consumer spending to provide a bulwark against weaker capital investment and to broaden the economy's base of growth.
During the Cold War, the US needed Japan to act as a bulwark in Asia against the spread of communism.
The trust lets you stand as a bulwark against any onslaughts on the papers' editorial freedom.
In the Cold War, Western Europe was indispensable as a strategic bulwark for the US.
They're given this bulwark of regular funding which they have come to regard as their right. Times, Sunday Times

They're given this bulwark of regular funding which they have come to regard as their right. Times, Sunday Times
But they also provide an important bulwark against casual bigotry. Times, Sunday Times
There are substantial bulwarks around the side and forward decks for secure footing, and a large foredeck locker, with the anchors stowed on the bowsprit.
Many of these vessels arrived with loss of bulwarks, boats, and galleys, and in all cases with a greater proportion of sickness and deaths than those not exposed to the fury of the gale.
Thus, the army appeared at the time to be not merely a strong bulwark, not merely a political counterweight to the mass populism of the Hitler movement.
The next section covers Miscellaneous Facilities, such as decks and bulwarks, proper lighting, humidity and condensation control.
The enforcer of a criminal's charter or a bulwark of defence for vulnerable minorities and victims of conflict and persecution? Times, Sunday Times
Freedom of the press is a vital bulwark of our liberties and it is of the utmost importance that politicians do not curtail it. Times, Sunday Times
Any sallies into Ballyhaunis territory by the St. Colman's lads were usually blunted by the bulwark of the stout-hearted Ballyhaunis defence whose confidence and commitment was never once dented on this occasion.
And during these 60 years, our Army maintained its visible bulwark of thousands of troops deployed against the worldwide threat of the Communist powers in Europe and Asia.
Besides, there is no king, be his cause never so spotless, if it come to the arbitrement of swords, can try it out with all unspotted soldiers: some peradventure have on them the guilt of premeditated and contrived murder; some, of beguiling virgins with the broken seals of perjury; some, making the wars their bulwark, that have before gored the gentle bosom of peace with pillage and robbery. The Life of King Henry the Fifth
It seemed to many that the revered Constitution was really the bulwark of powerful economic interests and, therefore, the enemy of more egalitarian and populist policies.
Alighting at the small wayside station, we drove for some miles through the remains of widespread woods, which were once part of that great forest which for so long held the Saxon invaders at bay -- the impenetrable "weald," for sixty years the bulwark of Britain. The Adventure of Black Peter.
It forms a significant bulwark against the tide so that, even on neaps, there is an appreciable movement of water as the pent-up flow sweeps around the headland.
The Soviet Union has been and will continue to be a reliable bulwark in the defense of peace and the security of peoples, and is ready to prove this not in words but in deeds.
The very periodization structure on which our histories are based depends on his heroic presence as a bulwark between trecento and quattrocento, as a signpost stating ‘the Renaissance starts here.’
As Spike uttered this order, his foot was on the plank-sheer of the bulwarks, in the act of passing to the wharf again. Jack Tier
The cutting of the wood and the depasturing of the grasses upon the sand-dunes converted them from solid bulwarks against the ocean to loose accumulations of dust, which every sea-breeze drove farther landward, burying, perhaps, fertile soil and choking up water-courses on one side, and exposing the coast to erosion by the sea upon the other. Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 04 (historical)
It is not the last outpost of colonialism, but the first bulwark of democracy.
On the night of the 6th, a tremendous sea struck her on the stern, stove in all the dead-lights, and washed them into the cabin, lifted the taffrail a foot or more out of its place, carried away the afterpart of the larboard bulwark, shattered the whole of the stern-frame, and washed one of the steersmen away from the wheel. Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean From Authentic Accounts Of Modern Voyagers And Travellers; Designed For The Entertainment And Instruction Of Young People
The new breed of paper focused on sensational stories about city life and trumpeted the value of a popular press as a bulwark of democracy.
Even in wartime, the army was forbidden to cut down fruit trees, unless they were actually being used as bulwarks in defending against a siege.
Claiming that Sarah Ferguson comes from Basingstoke is pushing it: she grew up on the 876-acre family farm at Dummer, safely south of the M3, gentility's bulwark against the town which sprawls along the motorway's north side.
He spurns the label of ‘laxity’ for latitudinarianism and defends Anglicanism as a venerable bulwark against the encroachments and excesses of Rome.
But he argues that the West, far from a monolithic bulwark against "diversity," is "the mongrel civilization par excellence"; the systole and diastole of contractive monoculturalism and expansive multiculturalism are its heartbeat. A Real-Life Renaissance Man
broadcloth," undertook to drive him from Boston, putting his life in peril, it was our women who made their own persons a bulwark of protection around him. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
So does a secular society provide no bulwark, no line in the sand? Times, Sunday Times
When they were closer to the second bulwark, she disappeared among her fellows.
A basic minimum amount of wealth provides a crucial bulwark against many sources of stress and unhappiness. MAKING HAPPY PEOPLE
Their methods were, however, relatively unsophisticated: the point was to assemble a mountain of evidence that would serve as a bulwark against their enemies.
Politically, Japan became the main Asian bulwark against communism.
At that period the Spanish war-vessels were built with "flush" decks, that is, their decks were level fore and aft, and without bulwarks, and were of much greater length than the English vessels, which were short, and therefore more easy to manoeuvre than the Spaniards. Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess
He was a bulwark for life, he was a bulwark for the sanctity of marriage.
Catholic social doctrine was seen as an alternative to, and bulwark against, socialism.
This was aimed at avoiding the conflicts that had led to two world wars in the first half of the last century while, at the same time, establishing a bulwark in the Cold War against the Soviet Union.
By the early twentieth century, most urban areas claimed a modern filtered water system and a sanitary sewage works, both bulwarks against the spread of cholera.
It seemed to many that the revered Constitution was really the bulwark of powerful economic interests and, therefore, the enemy of more egalitarian and populist policies.
And before morning the Mary Rogers was hove down twice again, and holes were knocked in her bulwarks to ease her decks from the weight of the ocean that pressed her down. Make Westing
During the Empire its state parliament, whose members were elected on a highly restrictive franchise, developed into a bulwark of conservatism, which frustrated any liberal or social democrat attempts at constitutional reform.
The remaining four were bower anchors mounted on bulwarks in the bow for use.
We know further that the habitant is the bulwark of our nationality because he has retained all the ancestral virtues, because the ill-wind of unrest, foreign penetration, modern luxury, bolshevist preachings pass over his head, because in his happy home rises a generation that will follow in his footsteps. One of Canada's Assets, the Habitant
The passengers were all above, grouped about the bulwarks, or looking after their effects amid a wilderness of baggage.
The avenue, very steep and narrow, and causewayed with large round stones, ascended the side of the precipitous bank in an oblique and zigzag course, now showing now hiding a view of the tower and its exterior bulwarks, which seemed to rise almost perpendicularly above their heads. Old Mortality
And a bold, well-communicated agenda provides a bulwark against politicians offering division rather than solutions.
On deck, the Captain noticed a lone figure, leaning against the bulwark of the command ship, completely absorbed by the surrounding scenery.
Immediately over the "midship" section of the hull, and extending one hundred and fifty feet in either direction fore and aft from this point, placed upon the "back," so to speak, of the hull, was a superstructure shaped somewhat like the above-water portion of a double-ended Thames steamboat, with a deck, thirty feet in width at its broadest part, protected by an open railing in place of the usual bulwarks. With Airship and Submarine A Tale of Adventure
The bulwarks are high above the deck, the scuppers wide enough to clear the most drenching waves.
Day dawned on the savage ocean, and in the cold gray light all that could be seen of The Francis Spaight emerging from the sea were the poop, the shattered mizzenmast, and a ragged line of bulwarks. THE "FRANCIS SPAIGHT"
He didn't say that the British way is better, cleaner, more constitutionally bulwarked – because, actually, it isn't. Big Brother may be off-air but he has got his beady eyes on BBC trustees
A basic minimum amount of wealth provides a crucial bulwark against many sources of stress and unhappiness. MAKING HAPPY PEOPLE
The enforcer of a criminal's charter or a bulwark of defence for vulnerable minorities and victims of conflict and persecution? Times, Sunday Times
Until then the security forces remain the ultimate bulwark against the breakdown of society.
Many of these vessels arrived with loss of bulwarks, boats, and galleys, and in all cases with a greater proportion of sickness and deaths than those not exposed to the fury of the gale.
Trenches and low walls of earth braced with wooden beams zig-zagged their way across the fields to where troops laboured at raising bulwarks against rifle fire.
In turn, Kandahar Airfield, the base of operations for southern Afghanistan, is likely to continue transforming from an expeditionary bulwark to a steady-state installation.
Next, fin along the bulwarks on the starboard side, down to deeper water.
And as a remedy for this fatal evil he is everywhere peculiarly emphatical in his encomiums on the habeas corpus act, which in one place he calls "the BULWARK of the British Constitution. Balkinization
Howbeit, their captaines made them to returne with great strokes of swordes and other weapons, and to remount vpon the earth fallen from the sayd bulwarke, and pight seuen banners nigh to our repaire. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Before World War II, the French thought their Maginot an invincible bulwark against German invasion.
A section of the starboard bulwarks was removed to create a gangway, or opening.
The US supported efforts to unify Western Europe economically and politically, to establish a stable bulwark in the Cold War.
Rounded towers and thick bulwarks provided maximum protection against the siege engines of that era.
Atlantis, so hints came to me steadily that Ponape and Lele and their basalt bulwarked islets were the last points of the slowly sunken western land clinging still to the sunlight, and had been the last refuge and sacred places of the rulers of that race which had lost their immemorial home under the rising waters of the The Moon Pool
Amphibious assault ship HMS Bulwark has sailed for her first training programme under the White Ensign.
The work of ancient volcanic eruptions, it is ideally suited for a defensive bulwark. Times, Sunday Times
Britain's police are a vital bulwark in society. Times, Sunday Times
Freedom of the press is a vital bulwark of our liberties and it is of the utmost importance that politicians do not curtail it. Times, Sunday Times
But their sleep is punctuated by screams, and their days are bulwarked by prayer, booze -- anything to keep the past at bay. War Wounds
And before morning the Mary Rogers was hove down twice again, and holes were knocked in her bulwarks to ease her decks from the weight of ocean that pressed her down. MAKE WESTING
He argued that by helping Men protect themselves against Chaos they would create an invaluable bulwark against the forces of darkness.
“The states are the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies.” Broke
The work of ancient volcanic eruptions, it is ideally suited for a defensive bulwark. Times, Sunday Times
The Reverend William Matheus, another member, was assistant rector at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, a bulwark of progressive social causes.
By Eight Bells, we could make out the derelict clearly from the deck; and, shortly after breakfast when we had closed her within half-a-mile, we could see that somehow or other she had got terribly knocked about, her bulwarks having been carried away, as well as most of her spars and rigging, only the stump of her mainmast being left still standing, with the yard, which had parted at the slings, hanging down all a-cockbill. Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
The WSJ is leaking and it's a sad thing that a formerly trusted institution, which once had strong, bulwarked boundaries, has begun the much expected, post Murdoch acquisition, slippery slide. Rove's Obama Hit-Job Re-Run Oozes Out of Murdoch's Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Section
This provides a necessary bulwark against the danger of an all-powerful state invading the individual's liberty.
Democracy is a bulwark of freedom.
The work of ancient volcanic eruptions, it is ideally suited for a defensive bulwark. Times, Sunday Times
The boats, booms, the wheel, capstern, binnacle, and indeed all the upper portions of the ship, were cut to pieces; the bulwarks were destroyed and the starboard side almost beaten in, while the decks, slippery with gore, were literally strewn with the dead and badly wounded. The Two Shipmates
With this view likewise, they built a wooden castle on a large bark, which, they filled with combustibles, meaning to send it against the bulwark to set it on fire. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
Democracy is a bulwark of freedom.
Three corpses were stretched on the afterpart of the deck near the wheelhouse -- which had been wrenched away, along with the binnacle and bulwarks, and the cabin skylight, while the hull was full of water and kept afloat only by the buoyant nature of the cargo, although they could not discover what that was, as it was completely submerged. Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek
It shone like a mirrored lakelet of jet; on each side of it arose what at first glance seemed towering bulwarks of the same ebon obsidian; at second, revealed themselves as structures hewn and set in place by men; polished faces pierced by dozens of high, narrow windows. The Moon Pool
This time next week, I will tell all of my faithful readers what the following are: beakhead knightheads scantlings (sounds like a nice title for a novel ...) tumblehome (so does that) bulwark Archive 2006-06-01
Surgery and X - irradiation nevertheless remain the bulwarks of cancer treatment throughout the world.
The captain of the Greek ship turned and stared out over the bulwarks and, shading his eyes, squinted into the sun.
An investigation is under way into an incident in January at Hull as the unladen vessel Kemira Gas was making an approach to Saltend jetties and collided with the Sand End Light Float, causing minor damage to the tug's bulwark and the float.
The Nationals bulwarked his effort with a breakout offensive night, led by Dunn's monstrous two-run home run in the second inning and capped when Ian Desmond - who had struck out four times Monday night and then refused a day off Tuesday - blasted a solo shot in the ninth. Livan Hernandez powers Washington Nationals past Atlanta Braves, 6-0
Then he climbed to the mountain top, and, descending the opposite slope, fared on two days till he came in sight of a walled and bulwarked city, abounding in trees and rills. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
These are dreadful days indeed, my worthy neighbour (this epithet indicated a rapid advance in the Baronets good graces) days when the bulwarks of society are shaken to their mighty base, and that rank, which forms, as it were, its highest grace and ornament, is mingled and confused with the viler parts of the architecture. Chapter XLII
Rabinowitz: I have to dispute that, Dan, in the sense that the lack of discrimination in these judgments--I mean, the capacity to discriminate, which is to tell the difference between one thing and another, is the bulwark of intellectual capacity. Obama vs. the Jets
While the dissolution of aristocratic corporate bodies may be a cost to society, in that bulwarks against despotism are eroded, Tocqueville believes that on balance the individual gains.
Arguably, this white identity politics helped swing the 2000 and 2004 elections, serving as the powerful counterpunch to urban white liberals, and the McCain-Palin campaign relied on it almost to the point of absurdity (as when a McCain surrogate dismissed Northern Virginia as somehow not part of “the real Virginia”) as a bulwark against the threatening multiculturalism of Barack Obama. The End of White America?
After landing virtually unopposed, the Fifth Corps moved toward the San Juan Heights, the principal bulwark in the first of three defensive lines around the city.
But they also provide an important bulwark against casual bigotry. Times, Sunday Times
It is called phosphorescence," replied the doctor, leaning over the bulwarks, and looking down at the fiery serpent that seemed as if it clung to the ship's rudder. The Red Eric
A nearly 8-inch high bulwark and 28-inch high double lifelines completely surround the deck area.
By the early 1980âs, many writers who had grown up on Bulwarkâs Silver Age books relied on those reprints to show readers the previous incarnations of characters as they used them in alternate universe cross-over stories. The Codex Continual » Bulwark Comics: The Silver Age
Community is essential; it is the one bulwark against inevitable grief and loss.
The head and the arched tail were both gilt, and the bulwarks were as high as in sea-going ships.
I met with some disaster, lost part of my bulwarks and main top gallant mast but by the blessing of God I was preserved and brought here in safety on the 17th of October…
Whatever else, Slater remains dedicated to the idea of a vibrant and effective press as the primary bulwark and defense of our freedoms.
So does a secular society provide no bulwark, no line in the sand? Times, Sunday Times
Community is essential; it is the one bulwark against inevitable grief and loss.
When the sitting was over, Polson told me that the very first proposal submitted by the president was that the ship's sails should all be unbent and taken ashore to form tents for the people to live in; and that, next, the ship should be stripped to a gantline, and her spars and rigging -- together with as much of her bulwarks as might be required -- worked up into a raft for the conveyance of cargo to the shore. Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship
In effect, they are the bulwarks of the tricoteuses.
But although the Bill of Rights seemed a bulwark in defense of free speech, the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts revealed its continued vulnerability.
From the 1950s, the US supported the Pakistani military as a bulwark in the region, particularly directed against India and its developing alliance with the Soviet Union.
Their cannon were very evident, as they closed, crews lining the bulwarks.
That country is a bulwark of freedom.
All night it blew in short fitful puffs, heeling the great cog over until the water curled over her lee bulwarks. The White Company
Britain's police are a vital bulwark in society. Times, Sunday Times
The aesthetic benefit of bulwarks derives from the scuppers and hawseholes cut into them.
Christopher Wren's great fire Monument in the City of London is to be surrounded bulwarked by this bizarre, pleated accordion mirror-building which will leave only the tip of the Monument visible, serving as part of a giant sundial. Boing Boing
Finally, notwithstanding the perpetual call for troops for the military operations in which the government was constantly engaged, and notwithstanding the example of neighboring countries, there was no attempt to establish that iron bulwark of despotism, a standing army; at least, none nearer than that of the voluntary levies of the hermandad, raised and paid by the people. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3
HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark will each carry four LCVPs on davits on the superstructure of the ships.
It was a bulwark against sovietism and also an act of mercy. Liz Dolan: Is Foreign Aid Doing Africa More Harm Than Good? Don't Try Telling Bono That.
If beer, wine and spirits sales are the foundation upon which many food service operations are built, that bulwark is often under siege by employees running their own clandestine operations.
Doremi followed along behind, oblivious to anything else, and found herself descending the starboard stairs, following the bulwarks forward, trying to catch up with the gull.
Politically, Japan became the main Asian bulwark against communism.
An investigation is under way into an incident in January at Hull as the unladen vessel Kemira Gas was making an approach to Saltend jetties and collided with the Sand End Light Float, causing minor damage to the tug's bulwark and the float.
An instant after an explosion came like a, clap of thunder in our faces, and a great quadrant of light flashed as high as the 'Serapis's' trucks, and through a breach in her bulwarks I saw men running with only the collars of their shirts upon their naked bodies. Richard Carvel — Complete
An autonomous, independent press is still the most powerful bulwark of democracy.
But strip an Irish Catholic of his nationality, and you tumble down the bulwark that shelters his faith in a foreign and infidel land.
Its two corps, four divisions, and two armored cavalry regiments, the bulwark of NATO's Central Army Group, maintained a vigil on the borders of East Germany and Czechoslovakia.
The Secure-Marine company sells a 9,000-volt electric fence, to be installed on a ship's bulwarks.
The very periodization structure on which our histories are based depends on his heroic presence as a bulwark between trecento and quattrocento, as a signpost stating ‘the Renaissance starts here.’
One of the most distinguished of my predecessors attached deserved importance to "the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administration for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwark against antirepublican tendencies," and to the "preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad. James Knox Polk: Inaugural Address
Pharmaceutical stocks such as Elan and Galen are usually good defensive bulwarks.
That belief has in all ages proved the very best pavior to anarchy and despotism, or, to use a more strong and emphatic figure, the most efficacious battering-ram against paper bulwarks and constitutional barriers. Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,
He threw the dog's twitching body over the bulwarks just as he had done other sailors.
But he argues that the West, far from a monolithic bulwark against "diversity," is "the mongrel civilization par excellence"; the systole and diastole of contractive monoculturalism and expansive multiculturalism are its heartbeat. A Real-Life Renaissance Man
At length he tossed the loosened folds of his toga in the air; in reply to the signal, over the aplustre, or fan-like fixture at the stern of the vessel, a scarlet flag was displayed; while several sailors appeared upon the bulwarks, and swung themselves hand over hand up the ropes to the antenna, or yard, and furled the sail. Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ
Do I not remember how a rash voyager was nearly swept off the Asia's slippery deck in a storm, when a sudden lurch flung him to cling to the side rail of a then unnetted bulwark, swinging him back again by another lurch right over the yawning waves ” like an acrobat? My Life as an Author
Rut now I reliquishe to fatigate your intelligence with any more frivolous verbositie, and therfore he that rules the climates be euermore your beautreux, your fortresse, and your bulwarke. Amen ' VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4
With the Girondists, the last bulwark against the inbreaking tyranny fell. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
Classics may serve as a bulwark of intellectual and social conservatism. The Times Literary Supplement
Before morning the yard was in its place and the sail set and, except for the shortened mizzen, and a ragged hole through the bulwark, forward, the polacre showed no signs of the engagement of the evening before. Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83)
They are a bulwark against that dark night: the candle that protected us in childhood.
The restoration of the monarchy in 1660 could be seen as proof that, as kings had always argued, it was the bulwark against anarchy or despotism.
There are substantial bulwarks around the side and forward decks for secure footing, and a large foredeck locker, with the anchors stowed on the bowsprit.
And when the resident English bring the batteries of English political action to bear upon any of the bulwarks erected to protect the natives against their encroachments, the executive, with their real but faint velleities of something better, generally find it safer to their parliamentary interest, and at any rate less troublesome, to give up the disputed position than to defend it. Representative Government

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