Use "bastion" em uma frase

1. History lesson: How many of us are aware that, had the Ottoman Turks not overrun that city, the last bastion of the Eastern Roman Empire, in 1453, thus cutting off overland trade routes to Cathay and other places east

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2. Colonel Miles, with the 1st, 4th, and 25th Infantry, closed in on the west, coming up on the other side of the hill; and after Capron, with a few excellent shots, had crushed in a bastion and carried away the roof in a dozen places, a united charge took place, both brigades storming the hill

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3. As the dark aura sent its tentacles into this last bastion of Brock's being, the realisation came to him that he was about to lose a love he'd not yet experienced

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4. "And this bastion of law and order, this

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5. Emerging accusations of pedophilia directed against the Catholic Church have promoted a groundswell of opportunity for the political left, that for years has sought every means to discredit an institution that arguably remains the final bastion of traditional religious and moral values in modern times

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6. She was a Stibmit, and the last remaining hope for this bastion of Good

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7. She had chosen the right thing to do, after all her Goddess would not let anything happen to her! Not her, and certainly this splendidly massive bastion was secure! A sudden spasm of trembling assaulted her slender body, as her eyes took in what appeared to be the beginning of a massive tragedy for her people

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8. They treated me as someone who was valued, as was each person in that isolated bastion of European culture

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9. However, this college turned out to be a bastion of ultra-conservatives at a time when the country was in political turmoil

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10. And the last bastion

11. of the bastion walls, its inhabitants offering their farewells to the

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12. The Copts—the last bastion of Christianity in the Occidental Union—are dead

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13. Only Galilee remained a bastion of Judaism in Eretz Israel

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14. Again, Bastion sent me to the ground

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15. Behind them fell away the grim bastion of the fort, and the towers of Peshkhauri

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16. When Eckhart first met Gerald he was impressed by this mans determination to make the Southern States of the US the first and only bastion of white dominance

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17. composed entirely of women and was the last bastion where

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18. “Submarines! The last bastion of male chauvinism

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19. This started and has continued to cause, enormous debt accumulation by the US; debt that continues to weaken our government, the last bastion of democracy

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20. Riding in a fan formation with Feltus and Terence in the center and the other two men flanking them, they headed south as they scoured the wild landscape that appeared to change dramatically each time the lightning exploded, even though they knew movement had been limited to only a few feet, and plowed quietly through the storm; the Ocean Forest Hotel disappeared completely behind them, leaving them alone and without that bastion of strength, like a lighthouse to lost ships, to support and encourage them

21. The wind howled loudly but steadily as the rain pelted the high windows that remained steadfast and firm against the onslaught, grandly protecting those within this safe bastion from the forces of nature that lay beyond the sturdy brick walls

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22. The rain blew in torrents against the northern and western sides of the building, sounding oddly like incessant spurts of machine-gun fire in the battlefields of war-torn Europe, and shook the panes of glass in the windows as if threatening to break through the barriers to bring torment to those encased inside the bastion that stood firm and strong against the assault

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23. Once the ANC took over this last bastion of multi-racial hope and multi-gender practice, as it surely must, that would be the end of dreaming upon a rainbow

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24. He had become aware too, that Germany was beginning to regard Italy less as an ally than as a bastion, to keep the war as far away from Germany as possible

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25. ” It was the last bastion of hope in a world that had been shattered in the last few hours by revelations that his best friend was a notorious drug lord guilty of heinous crimes

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26. But, her last bastion of safe getaway was thwarted totally as she recognized, with a gasp, that the man with the scar not only went through her purse, but also the gun he was pointing at her as he sat in the dining room chair

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27. “We’re due to receive more customers from Bastion tomorrow, so that’s probably what’s happened to the girl

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28. I had a run-in with Khan first in 2006 when we had done an exposé on his alleged land-grabbing in his bastion of Rampur

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29. The Indian voter is still attracted by the family name; the Nehru–Gandhi brand has a magnetic appeal in their bastion

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30. South Africans wait, with bated breath, to see whether the last bastion

31. a European Union bastion, was built with the kleptocratic proceeds of the

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32. The Press, the last bastion still standing, attempts vainly to report on all of the vice and corruption

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33. It is said that the megacity of Brussels, a European Union bastion, was built with the kleptocratic proceeds of the resources of the Congo Basin

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34. beaten stucco from a bastion

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35. In contrast, Sebastian was portrayed as a bastion of Cheshire respectability

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36. struggle to found new bastion of democracy in the west

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37. Bastion finally came jogging up the path from the house and when Aiden saw him, he motioned the dog off into the forest

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38. Bastion sat quietly at his feet, watching the crowd lazily and every so often gnawing the fleas on his haunches

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39. Bastion sat on the floorboards at Aiden's feet, his tongue hanging lazily out of his mouth

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40. Aiden stepped up first while holding Bastion under one arm, followed by Riordan, and Finias noticed that both men kept a watchful eye on that hill to the west

41. Bastion barked at the air, and Finias pulled his bow off his shoulder as a precaution, feeling a kindred sense of unease with that mangy beast

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42. Aiden sent Bastion, who’d been sitting at the base of the stairs, up to the second floor with a quick shout and a nudge in the dog’s backside

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43. He patted his thigh, rapping the armor loudly, and Bastion emerged from behind the legs of the nearby soldiers, tail wagging, completely unaware of what he was about to get himself into

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44. The loyal English bastion towns and their presence

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45. It was a bastion of technicality, a place where he was constantly reminded of his technical limitations; an ivory tower, some of the other managers called the group

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46. What surprise is it; that the United States of America is now the bastion of money and greed? What surprise is it that America is now largely owned and controlled by absentee-owners called corporations; whose headquarters are somewhere else, or across the sea?

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47. pressive, columned bastion of democracy

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48. Ego interacts with the world by way of building a bastion for the safety of our existence expressed in identity

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49. bastion and the Vatican and its cohorts and nations have accumulated great wealth because of

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50. A small white cloud, which had attracted Dantes' attention, crowned the summit of the bastion of the Chateau d'If

51. He walked to an angle of the bastion, and beheld the scout advancing, under the custody of a French officer, to the body of the fort

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52. The arrival of flags to cover the messengers of summons, had occurred so often of late, that when Heyward first threw his careless glance on this group, he expected to see another of the officers of the enemy, charged with a similar office but the instant he recognized the tall person and still sturdy though downcast features of his friend, the woodsman, he started with surprise, and turned to descend from the bastion into the bosom of the work

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53. Without waiting for an answer from either, the young man threw himself down the grassy steps of the bastion, and moving rapidly across the parade, he was quickly in

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54. The officer proceeded, without affecting to hear the words which escaped the sentinel in his surprise; nor did he again pause until he had reached the low strand, and in a somewhat dangerous vicinity to the western water bastion of the fort

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55. At length he appeared satisfied; and having cast his eyes impatiently upward toward the summit of the eastern mountain, as if anticipating the approach of the morning, he was in the act of turning on his footsteps, when a light sound on the nearest angle of the bastion caught his ear, and induced him to remain

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56. It is sobering to realize that the United States of America, today a bastion of liberty and justice, was so backward in its thinking less than a century ago

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57. The Austrians at the Hotel of Bees use a crane to lower an 88-millimeter cannon onto a bastion in the ramparts

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58. of cover before they went into open battle; for beyond them lay the road and the plains of Anduin, while east and southwards the slopes were bare and rocky, as the writhen hills gathered themselves together and climbed up, bastion upon bastion, into the great mass and shoulders of Mindolluin

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59. And while it might have been morally satisfying to continue holding on to the bastion of the British high street known as Woolworths, it would have been a total disaster from a financial point of view when the shares fell to zero!

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60. Hundreds of bodies, freshly smeared with blood, of men who two hours previous had been filled with divers lofty or petty hopes and desires, now lay, with stiffened limbs, in the dewy, flowery valley which separated the bastion from the trench, and on the level floor of the chapel for the dead in Sevastopol; hundreds of men crawled, twisted, and groaned, with curses and prayers on their parched lips, some amid the corpses in the flower-strewn vale, others on stretchers, on cots, and on the blood-stained floor of the hospital

61. Yes, white flags are hung out from the bastion and the trenches, the flowery vale is filled with dead bodies, the splendid sun sinks into the blue sea, and the blue sea undulates and glitters in the golden rays of the sun

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62. We shall arrive to-day,” he went on with his argument, pressing close to the side of the wagon, and fearing to move lest his brother should observe that he was uncomfortable, “and, all at once, we shall go straight to the bastion

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63. He told me that they had removed to the fifth bastion

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64. “The regiment is in the fifth bastion, isn't it?”

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65. There they learned that the fifth light battery, to which Volodya had been assigned, was stationed on the Korabelnaya, and they decided that he should go, in spite of the danger, and pass the night with the elder in the fifth bastion, and that he should from there join his battery the next day

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66. A vast deal of joy there is about it, isn't there? You will have a leg or an arm torn off, and that's all you will get! It's not far removed from a downright sin! And here in the town it's not at all like the bastion, and that is a perfect terror

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67. “The captain is at the bastion just now, and his cot is empty

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68. The elder Kozeltzoff, meeting on the street a soldier belonging to his regiment, betook himself at once, in company with the man, to the fifth bastion

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69. The breastwork of gabions, the shapes of the trenches, the cannons which he passed, even the fragments of shot, bombs, over which he stumbled in his path—all this, incessantly illuminated by the light of the firing, was well known to him, all this had engraved itself in vivid colors on his memory, three months before, during the two weeks which he had spent in this very bastion, without once leaving it

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70. The company was stationed along the defensive wall toward the sixth bastion

71. But this feeling was soon shaken by a spectacle upon which he stumbled in the twilight, on the Kornilovsky battery, in his search for the commander of the bastion

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72. Volodya stood petrified for a moment, as he saw the corpse waver on the summit of the breastworks, and then roll down into the ditch; but, luckily for him, the commander of the bastion met him there, communicated his orders, and furnished him with a guide to the battery and to the bomb-proofs designated for his service

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73. Fortunately, there had been assigned for his assistant a gun-captain of gigantic size, a sailor, who had served on the mortars since the beginning of the siege, and who convinced him of the practicability of using them, conducted him all over the bastion, with a lantern, during the night, exactly as though it had been his own kitchen-garden, and who promised to put everything in proper shape on the morrow

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74. At ten o'clock, in accordance with the orders which he had received from the commander of the bastion, Volodya called out his command, and marched to the battery with it

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75. The commander of the bastion, who was going the rounds of his establishment as he expressed it, at the moment, accustomed as he had become during his eight-months experience to all sorts of bravery, could not refrain from admiring this handsome lad, in the unbuttoned coat, beneath which a red shirt was visible, encircling his soft white neck, with his animated face and eyes, as he clapped his hands and shouted: “First! Second!” and ran gayly along the ramparts, in order to see where his bomb would fall

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76. “But the second bastion is no longer replying at all,” said the officer of hussars, who sat there on horseback; “it is utterly destroyed! Horrible!”

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77. Kozeltzoff's eyes mechanically took note of what was going on before him, and, recalling the fact that he had been in the fifth bastion, he thought, with an extraordinary feeling of self-satisfaction, that he had fulfilled his duty well, and that, for the first time in all his service, he had behaved as handsomely as it was possible for any one, and had nothing with which to reproach himself

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