This time, even that last bastion has fallen.

Now, from the very bastion of the right, came Benjamin Netanyahu.

The General Assembly is the last bastion of hope for the Palestinian people.

The United Nations remains the only bastion of peace, justice and development in the world.

Today the only US city that uses proportional representation is the leftist bastion of Cambridge Massachusetts.

As an alternative, he promoted a rival Turkish Orthodox Patriarchate, which became a bastion of ultra nationalist ideology.

With this in mind he added two new features All Saints Tower (F) and the Serravalle Bastion (G).

Today, it ranks among the five fastest growing economies in the world, and is a bastion of regional stability.

In the early twentieth century, the imperial and spiritual mission became one, as Russia became the bastion of world communism.

In Sharqiya, a bastion of hardcore MB support with 3.5 million voters, Shafiq defeated Morsi by more than 90,000 votes.

The jihadists appear to want a Taliban style Iraq that could serve as a bastion for the wider global Islamist insurgency.

At the same time, the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has become a bastion of sensible thinking on financial sector issues.

It is healthy when the West is asked to live up to its own self image as the bastion of reason and human liberty.

It is healthy when the West is asked to live up to its own self image as the bastion of reason and human liberty.

But this new approach was slow to take root in the biological sciences, which became the last bastion of the concept of fixed natural types.

From the AKP s point of view, the Constitutional Court and the judiciary in general had replaced the military as the last bastion of Turkey s secularist establishment.

On the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day, the United Nations, which has long been a bastion for Israel bashing, hosted a dyed in the wool Holocaust denier.

And given that the Uighur bastion of Xinjiang is close to China s borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan, the US was unwise to raise Chinese hackles in this way.

In a heartbeat, Cameron (who himself studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford, having previously attended that bastion of classical education, Eton) has signed away Britain s global influence.

Although there is no doubt that the military, as the bastion of the secular establishment, does not like these results, a coup is virtually out of the question.

If home prices crash in the US, the bastion of capitalism, could it destroy confidence and end the boom in other countries? If so, could a worldwide recession follow?

Thus, at a time when Eastern Europe began to solidify itself in the perception of the West, it did so as a bastion of heresy that had to be civilized.

We were deeply involved in the process of the Court's creation, through its historic establishment as the international bastion safeguarding the victims of crimes that shock the conscience of mankind.

It is not surprising that Rahul Gandhi proved unable to bring the Congress a victory in a recent election in a constituency that historically had been a bastion of support for his family.

But instead of bashing or seeking to undermine Al Jazeera, politicians should encourage this bastion of free expression, recognizing that Arabs will need to endure a messy process on the way to democracy.

In Europe, antipathy to immigrants, or Islam, can quickly switch to hostility toward the European Union, which is seen as yet another bastion of entrenched elites. This is what Wilders and Grillo have in common.

The fact that 15 of the 19 hijackers in the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States were Saudis crystallized a long held view of the kingdom as a bastion of authoritarianism and intolerance.

Meanwhile, the Senate, the French parliament s upper house, a conservative bastion between the two world wars and ever since, swung to a Socialist majority for the first time in history at the end of 2011.

By enhancing nuclear proliferation and the transfer of essential nuclear and related technologies to the Middle East s most radical regime, Kim Jong Il hopes to shape radical Islamic fundamentalism as a bastion of pro North Korean feeling.

In Austria, even liberals admit that an endless succession of social democratic and Christian democratic governments has clogged the political system s arteries, making it difficult for smaller parties to penetrate what is seen as a bastion of political privilege.

Cuba has been a bastion of the fight against international terrorism and drug trafficking. Our biotechnology programmes are concerned solely with the health of our people and of those peoples around the world which need our medicines and our medical expertise.

But instead of bashing or seeking to undermine Al Jazeera, politicians should encourage this bastion of free expression, recognizing that Arabs will need to endure a messy process on the way to democracy. Along that tortuous route, the world's major powers are bound to be offended, probably quite regularly.

Only the public sector, where the membership rate is 35 , has remained a union bastion. One of my best friends from childhood married a union organizer who found it so difficult to land a job in the US that he eventually moved his family to strike happy Canada.

Today, with spirit renewed, and faced with the challenges that threaten the very existence of humankind, we are working together with the same conviction and motivation as in San Francisco, seeking to invigorate our Organization, which has become the bastion of our principles, for without those principles, we would stand no chance in the globalized world.