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Example sentences for: bastion

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This bastion of the old Montréal élite of British origin became a prime target for the more violent members of the separatist Front de libération du Québec, who in the 1960s set off bombs in Westmount’s mailboxes.
Macau, the final bastion of Portugal’s great 16th-century empire, is much more than just a quirk of history.
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.
Alcalá la Real, as it was known in Roman times, was a Moorish fortified city from the early 8th century and remained a strategic bastion until the re-conquest of Granada in 1492, after which further Christian monuments were added.
leaves the individual with little recourse when he's been wronged by sovereign Albany or that bastion of liberty, Harrisburg.