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(noun) defensive wall

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bulwarks
bulwark



dissolving all bulwarks that would preserve the past

—p.17 Introduction (1) by Armen Avanessian, Robin Mackay
notable
7 years ago


a profound sense of sexual inadequacy, which he bulwarked by all sorts of theories about sexual technique

—p.44 The artist as exemplary sufferer (39) by Susan Sontag
notable
7 years, 2 months ago


Lamont thus inherited Britain's place in the EMS-ERM fixed exchange system and tried to make the best of it, seeing it also as a bulwark for pushing down Britain's inflation rate

—p.125 The One That Got Away (123) by Yanis Varoufakis
notable
7 years, 3 months ago


the community serves as a bulwark against the domination of market values

—p.90 What is cognitive capitalism? (47) by Yann Moulier-Boutang
notable
6 years, 11 months ago


the theoretical bulwark for a literature that was simultaneously challenging and therapeutic

quoting Jon Baskin in The Point

—p.16 Introduction: Consider David Foster Wallace (12) missing author
notable
7 years, 4 months ago


the coup could be understood in part as a pre-emptive measure aimed at preventing the demoralisation and disintegration of the anti-Corbyn bulwark

—p.100 The Labour Right’s Year of Misery (90) by Richard Seymour
notable
7 years, 1 month ago


For it is in the lifeworld that Habermas finds the potential bulwarks against the evisceration of social life by capitalism, state and what his colleague Marcuse called one-dimensional society

the public sphere

—p.369 Part VII: Back from the Abyss--Habermas and Critical Theory after the 1960s (351) by Stuart Jeffries
notable
7 years, 2 months ago


Russia, for its part, was the bulwark of a European order resting on the rent and tax exploitation of the peasantry.

—p.87 The Abolitionist—II (69) by Gopal Balakrishnan
notable
7 years, 3 months ago


In the 1950s, as anticolonial movements unravelled the empire and nationalist sentiments roiled the tricontinents, the British began to consider a programme of economic development as a bulwark against the possibility of revolution.

—p.58 Chapter 2 – Harbour-making (49) by Laleh Khalili
notable
8 months, 3 weeks ago


Donald Trump has presented a unique challenge for a newspaper trying to remain a liberal, pluralistic bulwark of truth against revanchism without simultaneously veering too far into left territory

—p.8 The Gray Zone Lady (6) by Ross Barkan
notable
4 years, 6 months ago


the institutional bulwarks of democratic life

—p.117 The White Man, Unburdened (114) missing author
notable
5 years, 4 months ago


it seems long ago that anybody trusted the state to serve as a bulwark against the global system

—p.39 Chapter 2: Inequality, Poverty, Indebtedness (33) by Richard Dienst
notable
7 years, 3 months ago


this bloc would, alongside the socialist one, be the bulwark against "dol­lar imperialism" and offer an alternative model for development.

a UN bloc that sprang out of Bandung

—p.41 Bandung (31) by Vijay Prashad
notable
5 years, 11 months ago


The International Monetary Fund has long been a bulwark of international neo-liberalism

—p.306 Conclusion: A Democratic Revolution (294) by Owen Jones
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7 years, 2 months ago


The desk was massive, a bulwark against the creeping ignorance and imprecision of the world.

—p.97 by Jeffrey Eugenides
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9 months, 3 weeks ago


Adam marvels at her bulwark optimism, even after the routs she has suffered

—p.337 TRUNK (153) by Richard Powers
notable
4 years, 8 months ago


small Slavic nations were all looking towards Russia, the bulwark of reaction, for their liberation

not really sure what it means in this context

—p.165 Epignosis (143) by Slavoj Žižek
strange
7 years, 2 months ago


Community development, one of its officers giddily explained, could be a bulwark “against the leftist takeover of every hamlet in Latin America, Asia, and Africa.”

this is wild

—p.78 Thinking Small Won’t End Poverty (75) by Jacobin
notable
7 years, 2 months ago


Social democracy is one bulwark between itself and disaster.

—p.48 Chapter Three (30) by Terry Eagleton
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7 years, 2 months ago


extrinsic value of serving as bulwark against pronatory chaos

—p.116 Domination, Liberation (105) by Frédéric Lordon
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7 years, 3 months ago