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The more common response among Jews was to devote themselves to Zionism as a bulwark against future persecution, or to engage in symbolic retribution (banning Wagner from Israeli national radio), or to pursue justice through the Nuremberg war crimes tribunals or other legitimate arenas of justice.
He has, for example, cast himself as a guardian of Christian morals and a bulwark against political correctness.
Their campaign has two main purposes, it said: first, to find a pretext for the West to distance itself from Boris Yeltsin, whom it no longer needs as a bulwark against communism; and second, to dump Gore as a contender for the presidency.
"Jesuitical" originally signified "of or pertaining to the Jesuits; belonging to the Society of Jesus; Jesuit" ( OED , again), the Jesuits being the Roman Catholic clerical order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534 as an intellectual bulwark against the Reformation.
The serpentine stone bulwark and elevated highway became Wanlichangcheng — “The Wall Ten Thousand Li Long” (about 6,000 km/3,700 miles).