bastion

Now, the avengers agreed, they were the “last bastion of defense” for the masses.

The 9th Circuit, once the left flank of the federal appellate system and the president’s self-proclaimed adversary, is no longer a bastion of legal resistance.

Economically vital parts of the country, such as the resource-rich northeast and the rebels’ bastion in the northwest, remained out of Assad’s control.

There, he met and fell for his future wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy, who played a similar role in Season 3 of “The Real World,” set in the liberal bastion of San Francisco.

Yes, that’s Texas, which is not generally known as a bastion of freedom or the place where bias goes to die.