Sentence examples for a bastion of strength from inspiring English sources

In recent quarters, Colgate, the maker of America's best-selling toothpaste and dishwashing liquid, has been a bastion of strength in the consumer products industry, consistently meeting and exceeding analysts' forecasts at a time when some of its principal competitors -- including Procter & Gamble, Clorox, and Dial -- have repeatedly warned of lethargic sales.

What military and political leaders characterized as an impenetrable "Fortress Britannia"—a bastion of solid opposition to the American cause was actually very different.

He consolidated Byzantine rule by recognizing Turkish suzerainty and settling Albanians in the territory to bring new blood and workers into the despotate, which, under his successor, became a bastion of Byzantine strength in the midst of a crumbling empire.

Canadians pride themselves in being reasonable, open to discussion, tolerant, process-oriented-a bastion of democracy.

American consumers, the bastion of strength in years past, reacted to the Mideast crisis by putting away their wallets.

But Bush administration officials expressed confidence on Thursday that they could overcome the skepticism of the critics, in part because support is nearly universal in the West and among Republicans and Democrats in Washington for building India's strength as a bastion of democracy and a counterweight to China in Asia.

Is academia still a bastion of free expression?

The Knights of Malta is a bastion of Catholic tradition.

It was a bastion of computer geeks and tech heads.

It's not every day that Italian capitalism can be heralded as a bastion of transparency.

Mr. O'Rourke writes for "Rolling Stone" magazine, hardly a bastion of political conservatism.