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How to use the word bulwark in a Sentence?

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While relatively moderate Republican House candidates performed in line with expectations, MAGA aligned, election denying extremists lost nearly all of their tossup races, their beliefs were simply too radical for persuadable voters. President Biden and Democrats beat expectations by nominating mainstream candidates, passing a popular agenda to bring down costs for working Americans, and serving as a bulwark against extremism.

Ben LaBolt

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. They are more: they are the best basis of public liberty, and the strongest bulwark of public safety. It follows, that the greater the proportion of this class to the whole society, the more free, the more independent, and the more happy must be the society itself.

James Madison

added by Normando
3 years ago

Bolton may not be loved by everyone but surely was a bulwark against a half-baked nuclear deal with North Korea, knowing very well about its negotiating tactics, now that he's gone, just at a time when the two countries are talking about restarting working-level talks, North Korea would try to make various attempts and use tricks to turn things to their advantage, seeing this as a chance to score points without defense from the other side.

Kim Hong-kyun

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Those people who say they have no voice, the union is the bulwark.

Stephen Baker

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Lee was an unshakeable bulwark against majoritarian tendencies that could have easily overwhelmed Singapore, lee went to the extent of amending the republic's Constitution to stop any party from sweeping into power without minority support.

Cherian George

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

Emma Goldman

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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