“The buildings sit like a sheltering battlement, a running bastion enclosing green space created from the earth mounds of excavated material.”

“Parliament will always be the last bastion of this multilingual exercise.”

“I know online is supposed to be the last bastion of the free world, borderless anarchy blah blah gah.”

“Rugby in South Africa is one of the last bastions of the white man, and still rife with racism.”

“Fortresses of this era employed cleverly designed bastions and walls to defy storming by enemy troops and survive bombardment by enemy cannon.”

“As knowledge moves forward, bastions of belief are painfully knocked down, as creationism has been by Darwinian evolution.”