0 something that keeps or defends a belief or a way of life that is disappearing or threatened:
British public schools are regarded as one of the last bastions of upper-class privilege.
The other is that both of them are bastions.
A more accurate description is "bastions of privilege".
There are certain pillars or bastions around which our political strategy and the framework of our defence must be based.
Anyone who believes in democracy recognises that a free trade union movement is one of the bastions of democracy.
The police and magistrates courts are the bastions of society against crime and disorder.
We in this island could not stand for long if the other bastions of freedom fell away.
Adjoining the southernmost of these bastions and to the south of it a short stretch of wall was also scheduled.
There are other bastions of democracy in this country.
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