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  • noun Plural form of bastion.

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Examples

  • By 1917 it had been extended, verified, and accepted, and with the Quantum Theory it now forms one of the great twin bastions of modern physics, and indeed of all science.

    Albert Einstein: Appraisal of an Intellect 1969

  • By 1917 it had been extended, verified, and accepted, and with the Quantum Theory it now forms one of the great twin bastions of modern physics, and indeed of all science.

    Albert Einstein: Appraisal of an Intellect 1955

  • In the bastions are a guard-house, chapel, doctor's lodging, and the commander's private store, round which are laid platforms for the cannon and men to stand on.

    From Farm House to the White House The life of George Washington, his boyhood, youth, manhood, public and private life and services 1859

  • As the obesity pandemic grows, vending machines around the country have come under fire, described as bastions of empty calories and trans fats in a sea of hungry consumers.

    ABC News: Top Stories 2011

  • Within the bastions were a guard-house, chapel, and other buildings, and outside were stables, a smith's forge, and log-houses covered with bark, for the soldiers.

    Life of George Washington — Volume 01 Washington Irving 1821

  • In the bastions are a guard house, chapel, doctor's lodging, and the commander's private store: round which are laid platforms for the cannon and men to stand on.

    The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 (of 5) Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States John Marshall 1795

  • In the end, it's a world-view that has no basis on which to challenge, let alone object to, the atrocities committed by so-called bastions of democracy, religious virtue or Muslim extremists like the Taliban et al. It essentially leaves one intellectually defenseless.

    Buridan's Ass 2009

  • In the end, it's a world-view that has no basis on which to challenge, let alone object to, the atrocities committed by so-called bastions of democracy, religious virtue or Muslim extremists like the Taliban et al. It essentially leaves one intellectually defenseless.

    Buridan's Ass 2009

  • In the end, it's a world-view that has no basis on which to challenge, let alone object to, the atrocities committed by so-called bastions of democracy, religious virtue or Muslim extremists like the Taliban et al. It essentially leaves one intellectually defenseless.

    Buridan's Ass 2009

  • In the end, it's a world-view that has no basis on which to challenge, let alone object to, the atrocities committed by so-called bastions of democracy, religious virtue or Muslim extremists like the Taliban et al. It essentially leaves one intellectually defenseless.

    Buridan's Ass 2009

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