Juries are called the bulwarks of our rights and liberty; and no country can ever be enslaved as long as those cases which affect their lives and property, are to be decided in a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of North-Carolina, Convened at] Reference

Fort Hood is an example of tolerating extreme religious traditions in the midst of our nation's security "bulwarks".    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion Doesn't Poison EVERYTHING] Reference

They came muttering some wild jargon about "bulwarks,".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)] Reference

Thought that these bulwarks would resist all might.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Leaf from the Old Forest] Reference

She came into port with masts and bulwarks carried away.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Soldier's Life Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle] Reference

Both these bulwarks of popular consciousness are crumbling.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Our American Dream Unraveled] Reference

Arctic sky will prove to be one of the bulwarks of the nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police] Reference

The ladies especially were looking wistfully over the bulwarks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference

Thy neck, is as the tower of David, which is built with bulwarks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference

The sole bulwarks against the permanent persecution of women will be gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Esther Hyneman: Staying Honest About Afghanistan] Reference

A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high bulwarks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 41: Sophonias The Challoner Revision] Reference

His heart sank within him like lead, for no one was floating on the broken bulwarks now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference

The podium was bolted to the floor, and the chairs and desks were too light to use as bulwarks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making of a Massacre] Reference

Bastile at the other, was originally the line of fortifications or bulwarks of the City of Paris.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shepp's Photographs of the World] Reference

Draw thee water for the siege, build up thy bulwarks: go into the clay, and tread, work it and make brick.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 39: Nahum The Challoner Revision] Reference

Let a hundred men keep guard upon the bulwarks, the remainder may repose after our long and exhausting combat!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

But Kiev was in deep trouble too, thanks to sliding prices for steel and aluminum, the bulwarks of its economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Desperate In Kiev, Too] Reference

Seeing the danger of our party, I leaped to the bulwarks, and hailing my deliverer in Spanish, bade him desist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

And I will make thy bulwarks of jasper: and thy gates of graven stones, and all thy borders of desirable stones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference

He spoke first to the crew, and they ran at once and crouched under the bulwarks on that side nearest the shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference

Shaking off Monte-Cristo's grasp, he leaped upon the bulwarks and suddenly sprang far out amid the seething waves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edmond Dantès] Reference

But one thing hasn't changed: the companies that once made up the Bell System remain the bulwarks of American business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dial U For Uncertainty] Reference

"Walk about Zion, tell the towers thereof; mark ye well her bulwarks, that ye may tell it to the generation following.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference

If she be a wall: let us build upon it bulwarks of silver: if she be a door, let us join it together with boards of cedar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 24: Canticle of Canticles The Challoner Revision] Reference

And the bulwarks of thy high walls shall fall, and be brought low, and shall be pulled down to the ground, even to the dust.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference

And I will make a circle round about thee, and I will cast up a rampart against thee, and raise up bulwarks to besiege thee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference

Thy neck, is as the tower of David, which is built with bulwarks: a thousand bucklers hang upon it, all the armour of valiant men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 24: Canticle of Canticles The Challoner Revision] Reference

The leeway we accord you to form independence of thought, even though we've erected bulwarks aplenty against you finding any identity.    From Wordnik.com.  [If IT Were YOU] Reference

Thereupon he hastened off to where his vessel lay, and with the three lost words he joined the stem and stern and raised the bulwarks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference

True, not exactly a Nobel Prize-winning discovery, but a startling declaration from one of the bulwarks of previous immigration policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Policies On Immigration?] Reference

These regional success stories can help promote more backward areas while also serving as bulwarks against a return to totalitarianism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stakes For Them--And Us] Reference

These are the greatest bulwarks of liberty and they embody the ideal of "American freedom" which has permitted our nation to survive and prosper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philip Smucker: Obama and That Damn Mosque: A Clarion Voice for Freedom] Reference

The Court also took aim at Germany's similar claim that concern for public virtue motivates its bulwarks against gambling competition from the private sector.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tale of Two Vices] Reference

After its total victory in World War II, Washington helped rebuild Europe and Japan as bulwarks against communism, laying the foundation for prosperous trading blocs.    From Wordnik.com.  [SADDAM THE BUILDER] Reference