Word: bulwarks
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...when Harvard’s power-play unit skated its first shift, that technical precision quickly collapsed under the scrutiny of five shots launched in quick succession. With Crimson skaters angling for position at Howard’s doorstep, the Black Bears’ bulwark allowed soft shots to trickle free for second and third opportunities...
...hope in mind that President Jacques Chirac plucked Jean-Louis Borloo, who turns 53 this week, from a junior minister post to head a new "superministry" for employment, labor and social cohesion in a revamped government. Chirac is hoping the wild-haired, straight-talking populist will serve as a bulwark against voter anger over Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin's belt tightening, and his failure to generate jobs or mend the social fracture between the country's affluent classes and its disgruntled masses. Voters put the opposition Socialists in charge of 20 of France's 21 mainland regions, up from...
Offering Danis a contract following his stellar junior season, the Bears’ bulwark had all that he’d striven for since his youth within his grasp...
...campaign] adopts some of the rhetoric that the other side is always using in the continuing debate. We feel that they have too much thunder with their use of choice over the last three decades. The change in rhetoric is an attempt to take that bulwark away...
...most of the Church worldwide, John Paul II is venerated not simply for his evangelism and his interventions in the political world, but as the latter-day equivalent of an Old Testament prophet, standing as a bulwark and beacon against those aspects of Western culture deemed both ungodly and death-oriented. For them, John Paul II is a contemporary Catholic philosopher without peer, capable, at times, of almost Christ-like behavior (such as the forgiveness of his would-be assassin) and driven by an evangelical passion recalling the great wanderings of the Apostle Paul...