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  • He also painted a single figure of S. S.bastian, which is very beautiful, in a picture in the same church.

    Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto Giorgio Vasari 1542

  • Barnie Frank, a bastian of good sense and truth compares a constituent to a dining room table, one of many examples we have seen around the nation.

    Health Reform Questions and Answers 2009

  • Not only does the BBC's Evil Empire - the last bastian of Left Wing privilege and expenses scams - want to charge for their rubbish iPlayer service but they claim the Conservative motion is an attack on the "independence of the BBC".

    OPEN THREAD 2009

  • They are the last bastian of Liberal Left priviledge and are notorious throughout the media industry for their sense of entitlement and their fiddles.

    NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH? 2009

  • However, the district is home to Wheaton College, a bastian of the religious right and they don't stray far from God's Own Party.

    IL-06: GOPer Says Amputee Vet Dem Would "Cut and Run" From Iraq 2009

  • He started the day in a place that is not known as certainly a Republican bastian, and that is New York City.

    CNN Transcript Feb 5, 2008 2008

  • Those Americans who complain that we Europeans have not right to comment on Palin must understand that America insists on portraying itself as a bastian of democracy and freedom and the President is presented as the Leader of the Free World.

    It’s all about Sarah Palin 2008

  • I believe the internet provides the last bastian for women such as we - deeply sad so many of us are isolated by geography - Oh, if only there could be 'Home Living' and LAF conventions in the same way there are Star Trek, 'Age of Sail' or even Elvis conventions.

    A Look at the Past 2006

  • The house of my childhood, the last bastian of my innocence.

    wendchymes Diary Entry wendchymes 2007

  • Vermont, not that many years ago, was a bastian of conservative life.

    From On High 2006

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