bastion
బురుజు
definition
noun
A large area was enclosed by a defensive wall with bastions and monumental gates, and the natural sheltered harbour was extended and deepened.
a projecting part of a fortification built at an angle to the line of a wall, so as to allow defensive fire in several directions.
the last bastion of male privilege
an institution, place, or person strongly defending or upholding particular principles, attitudes, or activities.
translation of 'bastion '
కోట బురుజు
example
A jury is a 'bastion' of commonsense against the establishment - that's why they don't like it.
Independent documentary-making is the last 'bastion' of free speech that we have’.
the last 'bastion' of male privilege
The school was established by the Catholic Church hierarchy as a 'bastion' of conservatism against the growing influence of liberalism and Protestantism in the region.
Reinforcements were pouring out of the narrow opening in the natural rock 'bastion' .
In this chaos the last 'bastion' of defence of a society is the judiciary.
The buildings sit like a sheltering battlement, a running 'bastion' enclosing green space created from the earth mounds of excavated material.
Yesterday, the four climbers fixed 400 meters of ropes along the rocky section above C4, until they were stopped by a rock 'bastion' (wall) at about 8300m.
Journalists are, if you like, the last 'bastion' of democracy and freedom.
The day after we will start to open our new route on the rock 'bastion'
Neocon thought, of course, views Israel as a crucial 'bastion' of the defense of Western values.
As well as the free exhibit there are lectures, Sunday concerts and weekly film screenings at the 'bastion' of German cinema, the Goethe-Institut.
The public sector has become the last 'bastion' of comfortable retirement in Britain.
We are, after all, the last 'bastion' of civilisation, are we not?
‘You know I believe this attitude towards heavy people is the last 'bastion' of open discrimination in our society,’ Andante quoted her as saying.
For some time now, firefighters have been portrayed as the last 'bastion' of unquestioned heroism in the public psyche.
Orcas may be nothing more than a display of how corporate interests are threatening even public art - the last 'bastion' of an independent civic identity and urban artistic community.
The last 'bastion' of domestic drudgery is about to fall thanks to the development of the world's first automatic ironing machine.
As more women join the male-dominated 'bastion' of the police service, one top female cop launches a scheme to combat sexism and strengthen female representation in the PSNI.
As Havergal told this newspaper in 1999, ‘I feel we are the last 'bastion' of socialist values.’
Parliament will always be the last 'bastion' of this multilingual exercise.
The mountain of Jebel Bishri forms a strategically important natural 'bastion' on the Middle Euphrates in Syria.
He gave orders to improve defensive positions, such as the natural 'bastion' of Santon Hill on his left.
In modern societies, the media - for all their faults - are often the last 'bastion' of liberty.
Asia's lions are protected in Gir, the last 'bastion' of the species.
cricket's last 'bastion' of discrimination
The first baron had laid out an extended perimeter of earthen ramparts with angled 'bastions' to let archers sweep the wall between them, and a deep ditch had been dug at the foot of the wall.
The walled cities of medieval Italy were fixed universes, 'bastions' of defense, outlets for commerce, which had been built out of fear.
The villa's distinctive pentagonal shape framed by arrowhead 'bastions' makes it one of the most memorable monuments of the late Roman Renaissance.
Today, parts of the massive, four-sided walls are still visible, together with the remains of its fortified towers, or 'bastions' , at each of the four corners.
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