Word: bulwarks
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...Europe, both sides welcomed the attack on Pearl Harbor. Hitler, pleased that the industrial bulwark of the Allies was now preoccupied with an Asian enemy, almost immediately declared war on the U.S. Churchill and Stalin were relieved that America was finally a combatant...
...enterprise capitalism and, in the course of backing the U.S.-led coalition in the gulf war, greatly ingratiated himself with George Bush. During 70 foreign trips, Ozal tirelessly emphasized Turkey's strategic importance. More than ever, he insisted, Ankara is vital as a bridge to the Middle East, a bulwark against Islamic fundamentalism, and a force for stability at a time when violence and disorder, already endemic in the Middle East, are spreading in the Balkans and the Soviet Union...
...notion of the church as a bulwark against America's voracious sexual culture is also taken up by Bishop Frey, leader of the Episcopal traditionalists. In a letter to fellow prelates he argues that "one of the most attractive features of the early Christian communities . . . was their radical sexual ethic and their deep commitment to family values. These things . . . drew many people to them who were disillusioned by the promiscuous excesses of what proved to be a declining culture. Wouldn't it be wonderful for our Church to find such countercultural courage today...
...bulwark against despair, a sanctuary of freedom, a subversive counterforce -- during a decade of struggle against communist control, the Roman Catholic Church in Poland was all that and more, depending on the viewpoint. Its representatives stood courageously alongside the Solidarity trade union and suffered the consequences, when Father Jerzy Popieluszko, an activist priest, was murdered by government security agents in 1984. When the struggle ended in 1989 with a Solidarity-led government, the church emerged triumphant, solidly allied with an administration it had all but installed...
...sprang up after the Communists lost their monopoly on power. The anti-Gorbachev demonstrations that followed the crackdown in Lithuania have begun to mold the diffuse movement into a serious force capable of winning over the liberal fence straddlers, who had stuck by the Soviet President as the last bulwark against the reactionaries. The mass defection of prominent politicians, economists, writers, artists, actors and scientists from the Gorbachev camp in the last two weeks and their alignment with the democratic movement has struck a telling blow at the moral authority of the Kremlin...