Word: bulwark
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such devotion was a bulwark for both of them against an ungrateful world. Old Liszt swooped down occasionally to inflame Cosima's feelings of guilt. Nietzsche betrayed the cause with attacks on Wagnerian aesthetics. King Ludwig offered ardent support one moment and retreated into incipient madness the next; reports reached the Wagners that he went in and out of his palaces only by the windows and once ordered dinner for twelve, then sat down alone after bowing to the empty seats. Weary and overextended, Wagner toyed with emigrating to the U.S. on the condition that the American faithful would...
...decision, handed down last week, overturns a Rent Board regulation prohibiting tenants from purchasing their own homes. Though his ruling will be appealed, it strikes down the section of the law that was for more than a year the only bulwark against condominium conversion in much of the city and remains the only barrier to conversion of perhaps as many as 100 units in "hybrid" (half-condo, half-rental) buildings...
...White House had lost momentum on all its arguments: that after the death of Anwar Sadat, the U.S. must support moderate Arab nations; that Israel was trying to dictate American policy; that the President's credibility was at stake; that the AWACS sale would make Saudi Arabia a bulwark against the Soviets...
...Having guns leads to freedom," Clark said. Citing the second amendment, he added, "An armed citizenry is the bulwark against tyranny...
...revenues available to a municipality cannot support a police force that is an adequate bulwark against crime, and voluntary help from the citizenry is needed, there should be extensive development of police auxiliaries. If there is a latent army of those who have suffered injustice, the source of the injustice should be directly addressed before the latent army becomes an active menace...