0 something that protects you from dangerous or unpleasant situations: --
My savings were to be a bulwark against unemployment.
It was for him a bulwark against schism and heresy on the one hand and a sure source of educated youth on the other.
Domesticity's personal relations were a bulwark against the atomization and mechanization of the social body, and a means to preserving individual autonomy.
In all conscience and good faith, such individuals may draw upon their belief systems as a bulwark against the threats of mortal life and death.
The bipolar confrontation that formed the bulwark of the global security system has ended.
The millowners valued the jobber primarily as an agent of discipline and control and as a bulwark against strikes.
As will be seen, in 1917, this district would also offer a bulwark of resistance against racial violence.
The volunteers are the main bulwark of the service, providing 2,184 hours of listening per year.
Diverse education is a bulwark against ignorance and prejudice; it finds commonality without erasing otherness.