Word: bulwarked
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Charles, La. Since 1930, coastal erosion and channel dredging have destroyed a third of the marshlands that once formed a bulwark between those cities and the Gulf. In some respects, the coast's best defenses were scuttled before the battle with Rita was even joined...
...European leaders had agreed in 1999 that Turkey's undeniable progress in human rights and democracy ought to be rewarded with formal talks on full membership. Washington was cheering in the background, arguing that the acceptance of an overwhelmingly Muslim country, long a bulwark of NATO, into the EU would show other predominately Muslim states the benefits of reform and democracy...
...crisis of direction rather than a crisis of identity. It reflects two things. Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world. Secondly, it reflects a loss of confidence. Europe feels under pressure, not sure if it should be a bulwark against globalization or a means of embracing it. This confusion is not unique to Europe, but it has come at a time when populists on the left are whipping up public opinion against foreign competition and market forces, and those on the right are fermenting hostility against foreign migrants. You helped...
...familiar concern. The country has been facing its most deadly spasm of violence in a year: last month alone, attacks killed more than 600 Iraqis, many of them Shi'ites targeted by Sunni jihadis bent on sowing civil war. The country's universities have long served as the bulwark of Iraq's secular society, refuges from the sectarian strife that threatens to rip the country apart. But now violence has come to the campuses. A rocket attack on an engineering college in the heart of Baghdad two weeks ago killed two students and injured 17 others. Bombs have been found...
...longer a real factor." Perhaps just as telling for how the race is shaping up were conversations that TIME reporter Jordan Bonfante had today with a pair of Jesuits. Both share much with their fellow Jesuit Martini, but conceded that they could live with someone like traditionalist bulwark Joseph Ratzinger as Pope. It's yet another sign that the dream scenario for some progressives in the Church that somehow a Pope will emerge from this Conclave with plans to undo John Paul's doctrinal dictates is doomed to die on the vine. But it's still early in the week...