bulwarks

The lyrics followed through with the eloquence of sermons and slave songs, transforming them into both topical agitprop and long-term bulwarks of resolve - songs like "Eyes on the Prize," which Mr. Mellencamp, after reminiscing about the teenage African-American bandmate who taught him how to sing and dance, turned into pugnacious slide-guitar rock.

NYT > Home Page By JON PARELES 2010

The lyrics followed through with the eloquence of sermons and slave songs, transforming them into both topical agitprop and long-term bulwarks of resolve - songs like "Eyes on the Prize," which Mr. Mellencamp, after reminiscing about the teenage African-American bandmate who taught him how to sing and dance, turned into pugnacious slide-guitar rock.

NYT > Home Page 2010

The lyrics followed through with the eloquence of sermons and slave songs, transforming them into both topical agitprop and long-term bulwarks of resolve - songs like "Eyes on the Prize," which Mr. Mellencamp, after reminiscing about the teenage African-American bandmate who taught him how to sing and dance, turned into pugnacious slide-guitar rock.

NYT > Home Page By JON PARELES 2010

The deck is of 5-in. teak, covered with iron, and the bulwarks are also of iron, being made so as to let down outwards, and thus to clear the decks during action.

Her Majesty's Ship Majestic Keeping Watch over the Steam-Rams in the Mersey. 1863

Juries are called the bulwarks of our rights and liberty; and no country can ever be enslaved as long as those cases which affect their lives and property, are to be decided in a

Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of North-Carolina, Convened at 1788 1788

There, in a nutshell (pardon the cliché) one has the primary flaw in contemporary American democracy ... more primary, MHO, than the injection of mountains of cash into the electoral process ... the ability to create "bulwarks".

CQ's Final Analysis: Big Dem Gains Likely, But... 2009

Fort Hood is an example of tolerating extreme religious traditions in the midst of our nation's security "bulwarks".

Religion Doesn't Poison EVERYTHING James F. McGrath 2009

It seemed to be a very long way down to the deck, but I reached the remaining few rattlins at last, and I was nearly down to the bulwarks, meaning to go below and bathe my head, if I could leave the deck, when I was stopped short, just in my most gloomy and despondent moments, by the captain's voice, his words sounding so strange that I could hardly believe my ears.

Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser George Manville Fenn 1870

They came muttering some wild jargon about "bulwarks,"

Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

Yet when it comes to North African democrats getting brutalized and killed in cold blood, the French and other Western elites and publics alike too often assume an arrogant and dismissive attitude out of a fear of undermining anti-Islamist bulwarks like Egypt's Mubarak, Morocco's Muhammad VI, and Tunisia's Ben Ali.

Sohrab Ahmari: How an Arab Autocrat Falls Sohrab Ahmari 2011