That bully of last resort?

The family is the nation's rampart , so said Adolf Hitler.

And what of the Constitution, That bully of last resort?

This time, even that last bastion has fallen.

Once mistress of the pagan world, now secular seat of the Church

The PDAF has long been the target of critics as a site of official corruption.

The General Assembly is the last bastion of hope for the Palestinian people.

However, this central pillar of international proliferation control is on the brink of collapse.

Before the Duma election, however, Putin jeopardized this last vestige of responsible economic policy. Currently, Russia s greatest economic concern is growing inflationary pressure, driven especially by food prices.

Before the Duma election, however, Putin jeopardized this last vestige of responsible economic policy.

And we must make the United Nations, as the mainstay of multilateralism, stronger and more efficient.

By 1071, Robert, together with his brother Roger, had taken over the last Byzantine stronghold in Italy, Bari.

These attitudes fundamentally change the way the world works middle management, the bulwark of tradition, is being liquidated.

Increasingly reliant on the Revolutionary Guard as the bulwark of his regime, Khamenei has cut himself off from the possibility of compromise.

The free exchange of ideas is a bulwark against those who use violence or intimidation to achieve their goals.

But Japan has never been seen as a bastion of free speech, nor did it ever make great claims to be.

Established in 1908 as a bastion of secular education, Cairo University later became a stronghold of Islamist student groups in the 1970s.

From the AKP s point of view, the Constitutional Court and the judiciary in general had replaced the military as the last bastion of Turkey s secularist establishment.

I recommend you pay a visit quickly, before the dead hand of corporatism crushes another lowly outlet of fun and dissent.

The next bit, we'd chartered a pretty elderly Russian plane to fly us up to a town called Khatanga, which was the sort of last bit of civilization.

Intel, the world s biggest chip maker and a Silicon Valley mainstay, hasn t built a factory in California for more than 20 years.

Intel, the world s biggest chip maker and a Silicon Valley mainstay, hasn t built a factory in California for more than 20 years.

While elimination did take place in the former Soviet Republics, the Kremlin hung on to its nuclear arsenal the last vestige of Russia s former superpower status.

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In a heartbeat, Cameron (who himself studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford, having previously attended that bastion of classical education, Eton) has signed away Britain s global influence.

Saudi Arabia, a self proclaimed bulwark of Islamic conservatism, where popular democracy has never been considered a legitimate form of rule, has been more aggressive in some arenas than in others.

His most significant pillar of support, the PKI, had been effectively eliminated by the other two pillars the army and political Islam and the army was on the way to unchallenged power.

And what you see, something else, the United States, the hub of democracy around the world, they don't seem to really be supporting democratic countries all around the world.

Yes, for replenished with the meat and wine of the word, to the faithful man of God, this pulpit, I see, is a self containing stronghold a lofty Ehrenbreitstein, with a perennial well of water within the walls.

'A community of hollow shells, chipped and battered 'by Allied bombs, according to a methodical plan, 'a plan that would cancel out the city as a tough enemy centre, 'and still retain some choice spots.

Serbian resistance was crushed at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, much of Bulgaria was taken in 1393 by Bayezid I (the Thunderbolt) and in 1396 the last bastion of Bulgarian independence was wiped out when Vin fell.

Under the leadership of Ghazi and his brother the mosque and the madrassa attached to it challenged the polices of the Pakistani government in particular the military operations against pro Taleban militants in Pakistan's tribal areas.

After defeating the Continental Army under Commander in Chief General George Washington at the Battle of White Plains, the British Army forces under the command of Lieutenant General William Howe planned to capture Fort Washington, the last American stronghold on Manhattan.

Of course, it would be best for everyone France and Germany included if the current US led coalition were to succeed and Iraq could turn into a pillar of Middle East stability and modernization. Yet, however desirable this outcome, it is no longer likely (if it ever was).

A mainstay of science ever since, the Geiger Counter became a pop culture mainstay as well, as in the 1950 movie Bells of Coronado, starring those seemingly unlikely cowpoke scientists Roy Rogers and Dale Evans

No countries in sub Saharan Africa will have the economic heft and political self confidence to replace Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa as pillars of stability anytime soon.

The fact that 15 of the 19 hijackers in the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States were Saudis crystallized a long held view of the kingdom as a bastion of authoritarianism and intolerance.

In fact, Pakistan s descent into a jihadist dungeon occurred not under civilian rule, but under two military dictators one who nurtured and let loose jihadist forces, and another who took his country to the very edge of the precipice.