| Fortresses of this era employed cleverly designed bastions and walls to defy storming by enemy troops and survive bombardment by enemy cannon. |
| The debt discussion isn't confined to bastions of Middle England such as the Mail and Express. |
| A large area was enclosed by a defensive wall with bastions and monumental gates, and the natural sheltered harbour was extended and deepened. |
| The walls had rounded angles with semicircular projecting bastions for artillery with an entrance on the south side. |
| As knowledge moves forward, bastions of belief are painfully knocked down, as creationism has been by Darwinian evolution. |
| Rugby in South Africa is one of the last bastions of the white man, and still rife with racism. |
