0 something that protects you from dangerous or unpleasant situations:
My savings were to be a bulwark against unemployment.
Indeed, racialism was far from a reliable bulwark of the imperial mission, or indeed of the exploitation of other races.
This view is sometimes dogmatically defended, as if it were a bulwark of rational science against rank superstition.
Their special contribution was to act as an ideological bulwark, not only against outsiders but against the fifth-columnists within.
Their works extolled the middleclass consumer as sensible, independent-minded, and the bulwark of the nation's democracy.
It would be their bulwark against tyranny.52 50.
It also allowed him to associate himself with an image of the navy opposed to domestic disorder and as a bulwark against mob rule.
The military, the bulwark of state power, was seriously demoralized and organizationally weakened.
Diverse education is a bulwark against ignorance and prejudice; it finds commonality without erasing otherness.
