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Example sentences for: bastion

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Normalcy, to which John the memoirist's father is doomed and against which his mother is his own last bastion, must be avoided at all costs.
Originally a bastion for Ivy League wonks such as George Stephanopoulos and Ira Magaziner, the Clinton White House is now cozier with West Coast elites: the Thomasons, Steven Spielberg, Barbra Streisand, etc. ...
When you talk to people here, however, it’s worth bearing in mind that eastern Berlin did not turn into a bastion of anti-Communism overnight.
Is that a reactionary bastion, a pathetic anachronism, or something truer, something with enough confidence to survive without media ratification.
Now that bastion of tradition is itself under attack, not by deconstructionists and postmodernists but by economists and accountants.