bulwark Definisjon på norsk

  • 0 a wall built as a defence/defense, often made of earth -- festningsmur, –voll, bolverk

    • The Alemanni tribes breached the bulwark and recaptured their country.

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Examples of bulwark

  • 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.

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