Word: bulwarked
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...Chung defends some of the NIS abuses, saying that too much focus on them has made martyrs of men like Kim Nak Joong, who Chung says was indeed a spy and accepted money from North Koreans. Adds Lee Dong Bok, a former intelligence official: "The agency is our last bulwark against North Korean aggression. It must be viewed by North Korea as a foe to be reckoned with...
...Union head. The 17 smaller nations, including most of the countries due to join in the spring of 2004, thought this eliminated one of their prime sources of influence and prestige. These countries want to retain the rotating presidency and strengthen the European Commission to serve as a bulwark against the power of the big boys. But Giscard was having none of that, either. His plans would reduce the Commission's importance by putting what many hope will be the E.U.'s most significant activity - foreign and security policy - firmly in the ambit of the European Council. Many fear that...
...industrialist enjoyed upsetting the apple cart more than Henry Ford. In 1914 he announced that he would pay $5 a day to his workers, double the going rate. With the extra cash, Ford reasoned, they could purchase his Model Ts. The workers were becoming a bulwark of the middle class...
...complicated. In a mid-life crisis solved the French way, he left his wife and family in Paris in 1917 for a new life in Nice with a personal harem of models. But Matisse dreaded the anarchic power of his desires. His sunlit rooms and elastic nudes are a bulwark against his fears of love and death. No less than Picasso, he made the canvas a defensive perimeter. His genius was to trim the battlements in the camouflage of paradise...
...Bill of Rights, the bulwark of a society committed to ordered liberty, has emerged from the past year tattered. A host of freedoms—freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, due process, access to legal counsel and protection against unwarranted search and seizure—have been the victims of a national leadership that has unflatteringly sought to acquire power at every opportunity...