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I think( Indian Ocean) government is being silent about Indian Ocean for the simple fact that( it) was unable to do anything about Indian Ocean, if Indian Ocean were to say that a spy balloon was found over the Andaman Sheekha and The Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which is seen as a great bastion of Indian sovereignty, Indian Ocean would show the government in a very poor light. – Sushant Singh	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s very hypocritical in the sense that Hollywood likes to position itself as a bastion of liberalism but has completely erased Tibetans from its films and from its representation. – Stone Fish	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Africa will most likely remain as the last bastion of internal combustion engines. – Craig Parker	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The chants by the brave, chador clad women of Najafabad in Isfahan province, which used to be a traditional bastion of regime support said it best : ‘ They fed Syria, but made our young people turn old. ’ Iranian protestors recognize that the regime in Tehran does not have their best interests at heart, and will continue to divert national treasure towards its ideological contests abroad. – Behnam Ben Taleblu	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
While elements of the Iraqi Army have gradually been able to evict ISIS from Iraq's smaller towns and cities, the challenge of liberating Mosul was of a whole different order of magnitude, it’s a vast metropolis that had millions of inhabitants, enormous sectarian and ethnic complexity, and was the historical bastion of Sunni [ Muslim ] revanchism in Iraq. The fight was always going to be toughest in Mosul, which is why it was left for last. – John Hannah	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Coastal missile systems Bal and Bastion and new generation Eleron 3 drones will be deployed there this year. – Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The NFL may be the last bastion of football in 50 years, because I can imagine the slow death of the sport creeping up from the youth level, if we keep finding out about the long-term effects of brain damage caused by the game, it's hard to imagine many parents will allow their children to play. Maybe high school and college football go away. And maybe football becomes more like MMA -- a sport that has relatively few participants, but enough to entertain the masses, with athletes willing to take obvious health risks to achieve money and fame. – John Branch	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It was the last remaining bastion of alpha and a sector where many hedge funds were hiding. Now it has succumbed. – Peter Rup	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
And as far as I'm concerned, I won't abandon this bastion, at least of my own free will. – Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It's important to remember that Charles was a white Alabaman, he was the photographer at the Montgomery Advertiser -- hardly a bastion of integration -- who became very sympathetic to the movement. I knew Charles pretty well, and he had many sides to him -- sides he was able to reconcile and that allowed him to shoot with a deep understanding of so many different points of view. He was not parachuting into these marches and protests in the South. He had roots there and was fully engaged. – Steven Kasher	Found on CNN 9 years ago
This is the last bastion of cage confinement in industrial ag. – Wayne Pacelle	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

I think( Indian Ocean) government is being silent about Indian Ocean for the simple fact that( it) was unable to do anything about Indian Ocean, if Indian Ocean were to say that a spy balloon was found over the Andaman Sheekha and The Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which is seen as a great bastion of Indian sovereignty, Indian Ocean would show the government in a very poor light.

– Sushant Singh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s very hypocritical in the sense that Hollywood likes to position itself as a bastion of liberalism but has completely erased Tibetans from its films and from its representation.

– Stone Fish

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Africa will most likely remain as the last bastion of internal combustion engines.

– Craig Parker

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The chants by the brave, chador clad women of Najafabad in Isfahan province, which used to be a traditional bastion of regime support said it best : ‘ They fed Syria, but made our young people turn old. ’ Iranian protestors recognize that the regime in Tehran does not have their best interests at heart, and will continue to divert national treasure towards its ideological contests abroad.

– Behnam Ben Taleblu

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

While elements of the Iraqi Army have gradually been able to evict ISIS from Iraq's smaller towns and cities, the challenge of liberating Mosul was of a whole different order of magnitude, it’s a vast metropolis that had millions of inhabitants, enormous sectarian and ethnic complexity, and was the historical bastion of Sunni [ Muslim ] revanchism in Iraq. The fight was always going to be toughest in Mosul, which is why it was left for last.

– John Hannah

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Coastal missile systems Bal and Bastion and new generation Eleron 3 drones will be deployed there this year.

– Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The NFL may be the last bastion of football in 50 years, because I can imagine the slow death of the sport creeping up from the youth level, if we keep finding out about the long-term effects of brain damage caused by the game, it's hard to imagine many parents will allow their children to play. Maybe high school and college football go away. And maybe football becomes more like MMA -- a sport that has relatively few participants, but enough to entertain the masses, with athletes willing to take obvious health risks to achieve money and fame.

– John Branch

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It was the last remaining bastion of alpha and a sector where many hedge funds were hiding. Now it has succumbed.

– Peter Rup

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

And as far as I'm concerned, I won't abandon this bastion, at least of my own free will.

– Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It's important to remember that Charles was a white Alabaman, he was the photographer at the Montgomery Advertiser -- hardly a bastion of integration -- who became very sympathetic to the movement. I knew Charles pretty well, and he had many sides to him -- sides he was able to reconcile and that allowed him to shoot with a deep understanding of so many different points of view. He was not parachuting into these marches and protests in the South. He had roots there and was fully engaged.

– Steven Kasher

Found on CNN
9 years ago

This is the last bastion of cage confinement in industrial ag.

– Wayne Pacelle

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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