bulwark
IPA: bˈʊɫwɝk
noun
- A defensive wall or rampart.
- A defense or safeguard.
- A breakwater.
- (nautical) The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.
- (figurative) Any means of defence or security.
verb
- (transitive) To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
- (transitive) To provide protection of defense for something.
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Examples of "bulwark" in Sentences
- The League of Nations can now restore its falling prestige by performing that inherent function, but it is as yet the main bulwark of the Treaty of Versailles.
- Depending on what it says, that report will either serve as a short-term bulwark against Democratic calls for withdrawal or will make withdrawal a politically unstoppable force.
- A credible election will also restore the faith of the people of Pakistan in the democratic process which is likely to be the best medium - to long-term bulwark against extremism.
- Whether this new Iraqi government-the one that will stand as American forces are withdrawn-will be a long-term bulwark is a question that can only be answered over time, of course.
- Whether this new Iraqi government — the one that will stand as American forces are withdrawn — will be a long-term bulwark is a question that can only be answered over time, of course.
- Darcy and Mike: You know, it's interesting that, for all the checks and balances in the Constitution, what may actually be the most important bulwark is something as simple as term limits.
- The palace has become a sieve, and the southern bulwark is destroyed; that part of the portal which looks towards the Monterilla is ruined; the finest buildings in the centre have suffered a great deal; innumerable houses at great distances from it have been also much injured by stray balls.
- That's less odious than the idea of a blanket distrust of any Arabic company, but in reality we do business in sensitive areas -- namely banking -- with lots of foreign countries like China, which can hardly be called the bulwark of capitalism, and there are very few corporations in America that do not have some component of foreign ownership.
- Stunted by their hatred, imprisoned in their lives, even terrorists understand as we understand that unfettered speech and open inquiry are the bedrock upon which freedom stands; what George Mason called the bulwark of liberty, and Thomas Jefferson included in the creed of our political faith, the text of our civil instruction that touched on by which we try the services of those we trust.
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