Sport has been called the last bastion of male domination. Unfortunately, there are others - Congress, for instance.
If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is anti-American.
Football's not a bastion for toughness. It's not a bastion of anything uplifting or good for men or anybody else.
The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.
The U. N. is an American-based bastion of foreign spies. Russia has more spies in the U. S. than there are members of the F. B. I.
National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.
The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood.
People ask all the time, "What are you thinking?" It's my least favorite question in the world. The last bastion of solace is my mind. It's an invasion.
The brewing industry is a very, very male dominated industry. It's a male bastion.
In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the Catholic Church until 1816. The last bastion of support for the reality of witchcraft and the necessity of punishment has been the Christian churches.
The Internet is a bastion of negativity, and we get to sit there and voice our cute, little, important opinions.
Look, I think liberals have reasonable gripes with Fox News. It does lean to the right, primarily in its opinion programming but also in its story selection (which is fine by me) and elsewhere. But it's worth remembering that Fox is less a bastion of ideological conservatism and more a populist, tabloidy network.
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.
Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back, but that doesn't mean one should ignore the lessons of the visitable past.
My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.
