Bulwarks

Disinterest in UK equities is such that even some of the market's bulwarks – FTSE100-listed Shell, for example – are wondering if the UK stock market is the right place to showcase their wares.

For all their faults, the Black and Green Queens are the Seven Kingdom’s best bulwarks against all-out slaughter.

A more popular alternative defence, which avoided damaging the castle, was to establish bulwarks beyond the castle's defences.

Islamists were considered by Western governments bulwarks against—what were thought to be at the time—more dangerous leftist communist nationalist insurgents/opposition, which Islamists were correctly seen as opposing.

The borders of the Old Town are the mostly destroyed old Venetian wall (and bulwarks) and this has been the cradle of all the civilizations which were developed in the area.

The new design had a sleek graceful appearance, less sheer, less freeboard, lower bulwarks, and smaller breadth.

The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable.

These two exarchates were the western bulwarks of the Byzantine Empire, all that remained of its power in the West.

They each fired a broadside across its bulwarks, killing several of its crew, and forcing its captain to surrender.