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In Europe, women were long seen as bastions of conservatism.
In Tumaco, and other former FARC bastions, homicides are soaring.
America's bastions of free thought have become hubs of suppression.
Modern film festivals, for better or worse, are bastions of auteurism.
In their own separate ways they are the bastions of hope.
The suburbs, home to many educated whites, are historically Republican bastions.
As recent events have indicated, cruises can be bastions of disease.
Perhaps not coincidentally, all three were once almost exclusively male bastions.
Thus, they came up with a pretty good alternative: naval bastions.
Twitter is one of the last great bastions of relatively free speech.
Bastions of free-flowing discussion with civil exchange are the academic ideal.
Bodegas are like small bastions of earlier generations — palimpsests of a community.
The luxury market was one of the last bastions for wagon fans.
Nor should cities be assumed to be reliable bastions of Democratic support.
Research hospitals are troves of valuable intellectual property and bastions of innovation.
The remaining (disproportionately public-sector) unions are bastions of support for Democrats.
Top military brass, one of his key bastions of support, are defecting.
You know this phase is close to being over when Bastions start appearing.
These perma-ulted Bastions roll around swiftly and fire highly damaging cannon blasts.
So did the Democratic bastions of Oregon (3.6 percent) and Washington (4.5 percent).
THROUGHOUT the cold war, Turkey was one of Europe's bastions against Soviet armies.
Not that banks in bastions of high finance can rest on their laurels.
One of my jobs is to maintain respect for the bastions of culture.
PARIS (Reuters) - Bastions are crumbling and loyalties shifting ahead of France's parliamentary elections.
But do I think black churches are just bastions of homophobia and sexism?
It was aimed at bastions of liberalism, like Harvard, M.I.T., Stanford and Amherst.
Still, certain government websites have remained bastions of accurate information throughout the Trump presidency.
The Remain campaign's firmest bastions are a list of groups not given to voting.
The case hits one of the last bastions of unionism in the United States.
Museums have long been bastions of knowledge and repositories for cultural and historical artifacts.
The Brexit vote illustrates how right-wing populism is succeeding in left-wing bastions.
That sentiment is strongest in the traditionally progressive bastions of Sweden and the Netherlands.
It's one of the last bastions of free choice in the style/celebrity nexus.
Much like the AI Bastions, Orisa should be a focus as soon as it appears.
They are such Democratic-voting bastions as Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit and New York (see chart).
These states aren't necessarily eternal conservative bastions; some, like West Virginia, aren't even historically red.
Now, women in one of the country's most powerful liberal bastions are telling their stories.
It has emerged in liberal bastions like Brooklyn and more conservative towns like Cookeville, Tenn.
And his country remained, improbably, one of the world's last bastions of straight-up Communism.
The idea that college campuses have ever been bastions of free speech is a fiction.
Dear Amy: I live within one of the most extremist liberal bastions in the country.
Compared with life among the general prison population, the conservation camps are bastions of civility.
Wander downhill from Old Town to Geneva's first botanic garden, the leafy Parc des Bastions.
Wander downhill from Old Town to Geneva's first botanic garden, the leafy Parc des Bastions.
The bastions of fried chicken were the sites of protests and a call for boycotts.
When tank Bastions start to spawn behind you, retreat a bit to take care of them.
As we push for more diversity and inclusion in Hollywood, awards shows remain bastions of conservatism.
No wonder America's suburbs are the last bastions of moderation because moderation was planted in them.
As in Lebanon, demonstrators there have transformed once heavily policed urban spaces into bastions of dissent.
The data on global improvement is hardly making the case for liberalism in its historical bastions.
Trump and Clinton scored victories in predictable places — Trump in conservative corners, Clinton in liberal bastions.
Dealing damage from out of sight is also useful against entrenched enemies, like Bastions and Torbjörn turrets.
However, improving race relations will entail looking beyond bastions of political correctness on campus and in Congress.
In part, they stand tall because so many of the old bastions of Arab power have toppled.
But it seems more likely that officials will tighten their grip on China's remaining crypto-coin bastions.
Whatever you think of the franchise, it's hard to argue that they were bastions of artistic worth.
Likewise, he beat Perriello by three-to-two margins in the Democratic bastions of Alexandria and Arlington.
We must remember that places we knew as brutal bastions of racism — like Birmingham and Selma, Ala.
The all-male final clubs at Harvard University have long been bastions of money, power and privilege.
In suburban districts, once the bastions of swing voting soccer moms, support for Republicans has sharply fallen.
The fact is, they're largely outlets for brand marketing budget dollars, rather than bastions of consumer utility.
Americans demonize fraternities as bastions of toxic masculinity where young men go to indulge their worst impulses.
The specialized schools are far from bastions of privilege, dominated by immigrants or the children of immigrants.
But Mr. Trump lost many of the few remaining bastions of Republican strength in the district. 3.
Opposition forces were constantly trying to take over sections that connected the main bastions of government control.
More seasoned professionals can be bastions of institutional knowledge and have seen their organization and industry evolve.
Hunting was once a man's pastime in Norway, one of the last bastions of macho male culture.
Republicans, increasingly relying on voters in conservative rural bastions, face a math problem as those areas shrink.
Assad has reclaimed much of Syria after crushing rebel bastions with the help of Russia and Iran.
Meanwhile, signatories of the pro-Trump petition are concentrated in Brexiteer bastions: Boston, Clacton and Grimsby, for example.
All were fleeing the last bastions of ISIS territory as US-backed forces closed in on the militants.
Even that strays below countries not usually considered bastions of mobile connectivity, though, including Angola, Russia, and Peru.
Even in Cizre and other bastions of P.K.K. support, many people quietly admit that they blame the insurgents.
I found that suburbs are no longer bastions of "white flight" nor the isolated places of their founding.
Political Calculus Across the postindustrial world, the populist right is excelling in the old bastions of the left.
In 2900, Arkansas and Missouri -- not exactly bastions of liberal politics -- voted overwhelmingly to raise their minimum wages.
Others worried about the introduction of battle-hardened men to universities, at the time bastions of the rich.
Des voix responsables doivent s'élever à chaque occasion pour défendre et promouvoir les bastions européens des droits humains.
It has taken back the bastions that will give it the resources to build up a national network.
And precisely because college campuses are bastions of free speech, we feel comfortable enough here to push back.
And, at colleges and universities, supposedly liberal bastions, whites continue to hold 83 percent of full-time professorships.
That's why it's important for him to cut into traditional Republican bastions in rural and small town Tennessee.
"When Hillary wants to show she's a listener, she shows up at coffee shops in liberal bastions," King said.
Baristas like Butler lose sleep mentally rehearsing their speeches, and internet bastions of coffee nerdery live-stream the competitions.
"Northern California" and "California" would contain the liberal bastions of the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, respectively.
This points to a third criticism: that universities are becoming bastions of privilege rather than instruments of social mobility.
That's almost twice the influence, and that's generously excluding tech bastions like Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Mountain View.
Bel Edwards polls best in New Orleans, Lake Charles and Baton Rouge, the state's three bastions of Democratic voters.
" Galloway added that diversity needs to come at the top, saying: "It's the bastions of power that must change.
Even in Western Europe and the United States, traditional bastions of free expression, companies are examining their digital limits.
The CME's closures will leave the London Metal Exchange as one of the last bastions of open-outcry trading.
In the end, the bastions of industrial-era Democratic strength among white working-class voters fell to Mr. Trump.
Even traditional bastions of free expression like Western Europe and the United States are considering their own digital limits.
And unless we take action, these bastions of diversity could become as biologically impoverished as the land we've impacted directly.
It makes sense that banking would be one of the last bastions to fall to the advance of casual workwear.
Sadly, America's current leadership has little regard for government experts, and has indeed worked to undermine bastions of independent analysis.
Among them were deeply Republican states such as Nebraska and South Dakota and blue bastions such as Massachusetts and Maryland.
Not the stabbing — but the fact that even the secondary characters on You're The Worst aren't exactly bastions of morality.
Former municipal and regional bastions like London and Amsterdam, Catalonia and Scotland have slipped from the traditional centre left's grasp.
However, the other "remain" bastions, Scotland and Northern Ireland, announced their results far faster than Britain as a whole did.
Many of her closest advisers want to humiliate Mr. Trump by aggressively competing in Republican bastions like Arizona and Utah.
Noble said Kelly's advantage appears to come from Arizona's emerging Democratic bastions, southern Pima County and fast-growing Maricopa County.
The biggest ethical fund in the U.K., for example, includes Vodafone, Shell and HSBC, who are hardly bastions of morality.
With that in mind, Mr. M'seddi, a kinetic and good-humored 27-year-old, conquered one of France's holy bastions.
The rise in negative feelings toward colleges came largely among Republicans, many of whom see campuses as bastions of liberalism.
The New York artist Nayland Blake has been inserting queer subcultures into the bastions of high art since the '70s.
Some New Yorkers celebrate these schools as meritocratic bastions where all kids have a fair shot at an elite education.
For a city perceived as one of the nation's bastions of liberalism, its relationship with issues of race is complex.
Why does anti-Semitism flourish on campuses that claim to be bastions of sensitivity in speech and decency in behavior?
Wade the anti-abortion side was regularly winning political victories in places that we think of as liberal bastions today.
One of the bastions of Hollywood glamour, the annual Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue is getting a major transformation courtesy of BuzzFeed.
Some of the targets are clear -- true blue bastions like Maryland, Massachusetts and Illinois, where Republicans upset Democratic favorites in 2014.
Tortillas are typically concentrated in the poorer barrios which also tend to be where criminal groups tend to have their bastions.
But Bitcoin boosters will take some solace in the fact that one of the currency's major corporate bastions is still safe.
American troops are working with Afghan security forces to step up the fight against the Taliban in the insurgency's rural bastions.
Bredesen will need to significantly overperform in more suburban and rural parts of Tennessee, which have been traditional GOP bastions. Sen.
Insurgency has spread beyond California and New York to unlikely Republican bastions like Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Nebraska and South Dakota.
The activity isn't limited to the Upper East and Upper West Sides, which have long been bastions of prewar style, either.
Orange County was the heart of Sun Belt conservatism and one of the most reliably Republican bastions of the 22018th century.
These asphalt-dominated bastions of cheapness and parking sum up so much about what I love and hate about the city.
Quickly disappearing is what many of us road warriors regarded as one of the last bastions of calm — the airplane cabin.
Fashion shoots, like French beaches, are not typically bastions of modesty; you don't go into modelling if you're shy of déshabille.
With the exception of the liberal bastions in California, New York and other population centers, America has reddened by the numbers.
In so doing, he joined a long line of presidents who backed third world autocrats as bastions of modernity and stability.
A series of offensives and local deals - accept state rule or leave - has helped Damascus suppress insurgent bastions across western Syria.
The rise of food halls in many ways mirrors that of food trucks, transforming cars and storefronts into bastions of culinary experimentation.
And they are lowest in older, post-industrial, pro-Brexit bastions where skills are relatively low: Wolverhampton, Redcar and Doncaster, for example.
"We want action," said Hassan, who has been outside of east Aleppo since the Russian-backed siege of rebel bastions this year.
But as cities have turned into Democratic bastions and forged their own liberal visions for the future, Republicans have changed their stance.
The final encounter is a knockdown fight against sentry Bastions and souped up Orisas (signified by the star icons above their heads).
Some counties in Wisconsin, especially Democratic bastions such as Milwaukee and Dane County, hold early voting days for longer than two weeks.
China is using those important bastions of educational messages Spider-Man and Mr. Bean to explain the importance of protecting state secrets.
Platforms like Twitter and Reddit held on to being bastions of unbridled free speech until hateful content became too pervasive to ignore.
Fast-food restaurants, once bastions of food-adjacent products, have been on a tear to replace their artificial ingredients with real ones.
They must be bastions of editorial integrity and independence if they are to protect our democracy and provide an antidote to disinformation.
Michigan holds itself to be "leaders and best,"regarding itself as one of the preeminent bastions of higher learning in the world.
Even in bastions of democracy like Britain, people are showing an appetite for a little less voting and a little more action.
But if you look at it on a neighborhood level, there are some bastions of America's giant coffee overlord left in Denver.
Representations of Black motherhood in pop culture always sit in the realm of super positive and aspirational, or bastions of malaise and trauma.
The two cities have long been bastions of factions of the Gulf Cartel, and while those groups sometimes get along, they sometimes don't.
It is good news that dance music and hip-hop are being afforded the same reverence as the traditional bastions of high culture.
Many decisions are taken at state or local level by transport agencies that remain, in one investor's words, "great bastions of political patronage".
But his hopeful message and dynamic campaigning clearly resonated with voters across the country as Labour made headway even in longtime Conservative bastions.
Chile, Uruguay and Costa Rica, for example, are seen as bastions of individual freedom, while the rest of the region is mostly free.
I think it's important we celebrate those bastions of the underground who consistently excite and innovate, without necessarily getting the recognition they deserve.
Party chiefs are campaigning all over the map—Conservatives in Labour heartlands in the north and Labourites in Tory bastions in the south.
Those advocates, who feel disconnected from the state's liberal urban bastions and the legislature in Sacramento, want to create the State of Jefferson.
In the last few months, the #MeToo movement has broken down walls of traditional male bastions in Hollywood, the news media and Washington.
Barbara Zoloth, a dance organizer interviewed in the film, believes that dance will be one of the last bastions of homophobia to fall.
These educational hubs have become bastions for anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment, which is often just anti-Semitism disguised as political activism.
It's similar to the last bastions of the old South, where voter registration is still Democratic but the votes have really changed there.
The oil and gas industry is one of the last bastions of male-dominated work, with nearly four times as many men as women.
The last bastions of no-strings-attached, blank slate characters may be giving way, not least because we are encouraged to want them to.
It also notes that as the industry has shrunk it has retreated to New York, Washington and the coastal bastions of the Democratic Party.
With 5-Star fearing the planned reform would cut funding to its bastions in the poorer south, the issue has become a major flashpoint.
But the affluence of the Bay Area and Los Angeles will hurt him there, just as it did in New York City's liberal bastions.
No nation has poured more money than Russia into winter sports, and it fiercely protects its traditional bastions in biathlon and cross-country skiing.
And now that top military leaders — one of Maduro's last bastions of support —are starting to leave his side, Maduro finds himself increasingly isolated.
They showed a number of critical states at risk — not just Florida and the Midwestern states, but even some longtime Republican bastions like Georgia.
The cartel, formed by Arturo Beltrán Leyva and his three brothers, Héctor, Carlos, and Alfredo, had long maintained Acapulco as one of its bastions.
And perhaps nowhere are they more confident than in Representative Steve Knight's seat, one of the few bastions of conservatism in Los Angeles County.
Some Jewish leaders exulted in the prospect of him joining a club that was started to serve people rejected by those other social bastions.
They see a series of special elections in which Democrats have run strongly in Republican bastions as evidence that momentum is on their side.
GOP strongholds in places like Chesterfield County tend to report their results early, while Democratic bastions like Fairfax tend to count ballots more slowly.
Clinton's defeat, the country's changing hue helped her come closer than any Democrat in decades to flipping Arizona and Georgia, two traditional Republican bastions.
Urban spaces were transformed into bastions of dissent, and sectarian affiliations were cast out in favor of civic engagement that transcended religion and class.
"Banks originally viewed themselves as impregnable bastions — just like hotels and taxis and retailing," said Karen Petrou, who advises bank executives on policy trends.
Twenty-eight states already ban agency fees, but the 22 states that do not are bastions of union membership, including Ohio, California, and Pennsylvania.
Despite food shortages, runaway inflation and a tanking currency, Venezuela's government retains significant bastions of support, especially in poorer, rural parts of the country.
They view these giants as liberal bastions, which will discriminate against right-wing views in efforts to rid their platforms of extreme and hateful content.
But in famously liberal Hollywood, long used as an ATM by Democratic campaigns, Sanders' message is not resonating as loudly as in other progressive bastions.
Lots of this goes on in Malaysia, as elsewhere: the new boundaries put two opposition bastions in the state of Perak into the same seat.
But here's the problem: In focusing on contemporary developments, the film implies that public universities were, until recently, well-supported, idyllic bastions of intellectual freedom.
I bounced back and forth in infancy between London and Johannesburg, before being educated at bastions of British privilege, Westminster School and Balliol College, Oxford.
The scorching capital city is full of news of B.J.P. victories in places where the party rarely wins, including socialist bastions like Kerala and Bengal.
At first glance, taxing wealthy colleges may be perceived as an attempt to dethrone the Ivy League universities seen as bastions of coastal liberal elitism.
There are many relatively secular, traditionally Democratic working-class bastions across the North where the Republicans have made few or no gains in recent decades.
You may wonder about the need for restaurants that function as sanctuaries in major cities that swung Democratic and were bastions of Hillary Clinton supporters.
In all likelihood, Turkey will lose any fight it picks with New York, London, Singapore and other bastions of finance -- unless a ceasefire is declared.
All are in unassailably Republican territory, as the line splits both the university and the city's mostly Democratic 285,000 residents between two conservative rural bastions.
But in recent years, as political tensions have taken on the tone of personal vendettas, it has become one of the last bastions of bipartisanship.
As one of the last bastions of American journalism, The Journal is a pillar of the fourth estate meant to hold the powerful to account.
And while Emmanuel Macron, the liberal former economy minister, is expected to win on May 22015, France's blue-collar bastions may yet prove a liability.
This time around, however, the stakes are clearer and Conservative inroads into traditional working-class bastions, thanks mainly to Brexit, don't bode well for Labour.
America may be an increasingly dark and depressing place, but the country's national parks are one of the last bastions of goodness left out there.
Photo: 947051 (Pixabay)One of the few bastions of purity left in this forsaken world—puppies—might be inadvertently spreading a bacterial superbug that causes diarrhea.
It is tempting to consider the Salon and the Royal Academy as impenetrable bastions of high culture that were immune to the trappings of contemporary life.
In recent years, Republicans in such states as Wisconsin and Ohio have targeted public employee unions, one of the last remaining bastions of strong labor participation.
According to a new analysis* of census data, Britain's bastions of Christianity tend to be urban ("but not too urban") and mostly in north-west England.
These bastions of the opposition are now being threatened by two factions: IS on one side and the regime and its Kurdish allies on the other.
So I set out to see if I could find the last bastions of LA's sketchy weed dispensaries before they disappear in a cloud of smoke.
The study showed the influence of crime gangs reached right across the country, but they remained especially powerful in their traditional southern bastions, such as Sicily.
But tensions ran high in the western town of Kisumu and the Kibera slum area in Nairobi, both bastions of support for opposition leader Raila Odinga.
For months, it seemed that one of Europe's great bastions of liberalism might fall to the right-wing populist wave that has swept much of Europe.
In a world where portability is becoming more and more important, the Apple iMac stands tall as one of the last bastions of the desktop computer.
For those finding fault in a cuisine that thoroughly departs from Her Majesty's customary vittles, I refer you to Anglesea Arms and similar pub-grub bastions.
Backed by U.S. special forces directing highly effective airstrikes, the Kurdish militia has lost more than 21625,2900 fighters in dislodging ISIS from Raqqa and other bastions.
But while ISIS holds little remaining territory Trump has previously predicted that it would soon lose its last bastions, predictions that did not come to pass.
Yet the bulk of the hiring has occurred in bastions of Democratic voters rather than in the Republican counties that put Trump in the White House.
In a somewhat ironic twist, the events were being held in one of the few liberal bastions of a state Trump won by a whopping 42 points.
Even as many U.S. consumers are buying other goods like clothing and electronics online, groceries have been one of the last bastions of brick-and-mortar shopping.
In July, paramilitary forces attacked students who had been holed up at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua, one of the opposition&aposs last bastions in Managua.
"These public toilets, whose history is intertwined with the lives and adventures of many gays, trans people, escorts, libertines, are also unlikely bastions of freedom," Martin writes.
It is not a coincidence that Trumpist bastions, from Buchanan County to Staten Island, are predominately white, or that Trump rode a tide of xenophobia to power.
The districts they lost are not yet liberal bastions of the progressive left, but nor are they positively disposed toward the current occupant of the Oval Office.
Our courts proliferate with these bastions of the conservative right and we are told that they are simply engaged in sober "textual" assessment of the written word.
But we invited him because we feel it is important to make an unequivocal statement that we believe universities should remain bastions of civil debate and tolerance.
Support of Donald Trump — and of policies on immigration and gun control — is, to certain bastions of the evangelical right, seen as a necessary element of Christianity.
Mr. Trump's victory in the Electoral College was mainly because of impressive strength in the traditional battlegrounds, not lopsided and inefficient Democratic strength in their regional bastions.
"Makeup is one of the last bastions of femininity that men are encroaching upon," alongside other areas traditionally dominated by women, such as cooking and child care.
It's also one coming from someone with two Yale degrees, an Oxford doctorate and a tenured job-for-life inside one of the meritocracy's most rarefied bastions.
John McCain, Bob Corker, Jeff Flake and a handful of others, Graham has been one of the last bastions of sanity and accountability in the Republican caucus.
Susan Brooks and Rob Woodall are also members in vulnerable Republican bastions who are retiring, as the path to reelection becomes more arduous in their suburban districts.
They lost 187 seats, mostly in suburban districts, many of which were longtime Republican bastions whose younger, moderate, college-educated and female voters turned out for Democrats.
While still more popular than the centrist opposition around the country overall, the PiS government saw its support fall in big cities, traditionally bastions of liberalism in Poland.
Santos has previously warned that a peace deal is the only way of stopping the FARC from leaving its rural bastions and launching a phase of urban warfare.
Yet our greatest bastions of modern ideals in Game of Thrones are only now starting to understand what it truly means to set aside power, legacy, and pride.
At a time of rock bottom trust in institutions and leaders, corporations are among the very few remaining bastions of public confidence, says Edelman, the public relations firm.
The bastions of gossip at Page Six insist this is a romance thing, while offering no supporting evidence other than they were in vague proximity to each other.
In fact, his public battles with once-trusted bastions of power like the intelligence agencies, the press and the bureaucracy may solidify his bond with his core vote.
The pattern of the latest bombing echoes the relentless strikes that enabled the government to win back former rebel held bastions around the capital last year, rebels said.
"It has been weakened in its historic bastions and ahead of union elections in March 2017, there are strong risks that it will find itself" in second place.
CNN and the other bastions of the free press are not the enemies of the people, they are the friends of facts and truth that protect our democracy.
The GOP did well in Democratic bastions like Chicago, where some white, ethnic, working-class voters responded to the demagogues who warned that their property was at risk.
In Orange County, California, Rohrabacher was voted out of office—a rebuke of Trump's agenda and a sign of how the demographics in former conservative bastions are shifting.
Granted, turning to such bastions of economic lawlessness as Ginni Rometty of IBM, or Elon Musk of Tesla, may simply be a clever act to exploit their knowledge.
In fact, none of the states that had legalized until November, with the exception of Alaska, were necessarily surprising: They were generally liberal bastions like California and Massachusetts.
Even as women have pushed into once-male bastions in business, many still feel the sting of professional and personal backlash if they are perceived as too aggressive.
Yet all of these experts operate under the assumption that the middle classes are the bastions of liberal, open societies, and that only their decline could threaten democracy.
But as the decline and financial struggles of once-alternative bastions like FYF and Bonnaroo have shown us, just because a festival can be bigger doesn't mean it should.
In the United States, calls for greater speech regulation are growing on college campuses all across the country and in media outlets, both once the bastions of free speech.
But we shouldn't give up hope for these bastions of marine biodiversity, because we know that we can save them, by improving reef management and reducing our carbon emissions.
The companies with the deep pockets to play the influence game and the profit margins to survive burdens that would crush smaller competitors are no bastions of libertarian thought.
British spies in MI5 and other services such as MI6 and GCHQ have for years been trying to ditch the perception that they are male-dominated bastions of reaction.
The NYT is joining the Associated Press in ditching the capital-I internet this year, with both bastions of journalistic style choosing to shrink the letter on June 1st.
In the so-called "post-truth era," science seems like one of the last bastions of objective knowledge, but what if science itself were to succumb to fake news?
The assault, which YPG officials initially predicted would take weeks, has dragged on as Islamic State bogs down forces with tactics used in other bastions such as Iraq's Mosul.
On the other, Trump threatens to provoke a level of animosity among voters in the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia regions, both Democratic bastions, that could swamp all statewide Republican candidates.
Yet, on campuses across America — which should be bastions of open dialogue and free speech — a new generation of students are self-selecting out of similar mind-widening experiences.
"The massive blast can easily and completely wipe out fortified ground targets such as reinforced buildings, bastions and defense shelters," Global Times quoted military analyst Wei Dongxu as saying.
For 10 terms, Representative Michael Capuano of Massachusetts — whose district includes much of Boston and liberal bastions like Cambridge — has been a stalwart progressive in the House Democratic caucus.
With the publication of four YA books and five chart-topping movies from 2005 to 2012, Twilight managed to draw new bastions of young fans over those seven years.
These gains helped her win huge margins in the most well-educated and prosperous liberal bastions of the new economy, like Manhattan, Silicon Valley, Washington, Seattle, Chicago and Boston.
He also unanimously received the highest possible rating by the American Bar Association and has been supported by scores of editorial boards, none of which are bastions are conservatism.
Ms. Forrest lives in the Soundview neighborhood in the Bronx, a working-class enclave that is one of the fastest-growing bastions of Uber riders in New York City.
In the deep-red bastions of Missouri and Texas, lawmakers like State Representative Jessica Farrar, a Democrat from Houston, have introduced legislation to repeal abortion restrictions and expand access.
I also like when puzzles feel like they're a part of the institutions they've tended to call home — that is, newspapers, which are bastions of culture and (obviously) news.
Men in the Victorian era, meanwhile, weren't seen as bastions of sinlessness and purity, and therefore were freer to have sex or not without it determining their entire worth.
While tech companies have long been seen as bastions of progressivism, with a bit of a libertarian bent mixed in, the relationships they have with Democrats have increasingly soured.
At just $600, the XZ5.33 Compact feels like one of the last bastions of sanity in a world where flagship devices start at $750 and go up quickly from there.
Still, after defeating IS militants in their last urban bastions last year, Iraqi politicians and militia leaders are speaking out against the continued presence of U.S. forces on Iraqi soil.
This week's pro tips will show you how to take advantage of Bastion's changes to become a formidable force with him, as well as how to counter deadly enemy Bastions.
Some other state-organized initiatives for the return of Syria's internally displaced — who total 6.2 million - to former rebel bastions have been made public, but the uptake has been modest.
It also exposes the same strategy of years of bitter siege imposed on former opposition bastions by Moscow and Syrian President Bashar al Assad's forces to push rebels to capitulate.
"What the alt-right is trying to do is they are going into these bastions of liberalism and hoping and willing to engage in physical conflict with counterprotesters," he said.
This article originally appeared on VICE Sports UK. "Football is one of the strongest bastions of manhood," says Selin, a star player and co-founder at Turkish club Sportif Lezbon.
In essence, Ohio saw the same pattern that we saw nationally, with House Democrats picking up seat after seat in the suburbs, turning formerly Republican bastions like Orange County, Calif.
But despite progress toward gender equality in recent decades, women struggle to achieve equal pay or seniority to men of equivalent qualification in business, even in liberal bastions like Hollywood.
Among the vast number of voters who have made Trump extraordinarily unpopular, these vicious attacks against bastions of American justice that Trump treats as enemies create anger, alarm and outrage.
The current government's destruction of the brutal Knights Templar cartel by capturing or killing all the major leaders has done little to cement peace in the group's old bastions either.
Why it matters: The public sector is one of the last bastions of labor's strength — about 34% of government workers are unionized, compared with just 6.5% of the private sector.
The edges of Paris and the patchwork of towns just beyond are fascinating and variegated, ranging from dense immigrant enclaves and repurposed industrial sites to leafy bastions of bourgeois comfort.
Yet the theory — embraced by hopeful liberals in states like Texas and Florida — that charismatic and unapologetically progressive leaders might transmute Republican bastions into purple political battlegrounds, proved largely fruitless.
Republicans are scrambling to protect a growing number of down-ballot candidates — including several in conservative bastions — who they fear could be swamped by a Donald Trump wipeout in November.
Syrian troops backed by Russian air power are clearly hoping to crush the last bastions of opposition resistance, opening up supply routes across the country and to the capital Damascus.
Even in liberal bastions like Santa Monica, in its online chat rooms and community meetings, neighbors are starting to unite around public safety as the first priority of local government.
Perceived hostility to a major Democratic candidate could exacerbate tensions between Facebook and a party that once viewed the company and its Silicon Valley peers as bastions of American innovation.
On college campuses — nominally bastions of free inquiry, robust debate, constructive lessons in failure, and unexpected discovery — there exists a prevailing controversy over the scope and meaning of free speech.
Today, only wrestling continues to prohibit participation in the Games to amateurs only, as boxing, one of the last bastions of amateur-only athletics now allows professional fighters to compete.
Whether Mr. Sanders can broaden his appeal beyond liberal bastions and college towns, as Mr. Obama did, to anything near the same extent will be a crucial test of his viability.
PARIS, Jan 21 (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande said on Thursday that Arab and Kurdish forces would be given additional support to help retake Islamic State's bastions in Syria and Iraq.
While it feels like the more luxe bastions of cable and streaming TV create new stars every week — we're going to make the On My Block kids a Thing, darn it!
Major companies including McDonald's, Lyft, and Kaiser Permanente have pulled advertising from one of the last remaining bastions for white nationalists and neo-Nazis, internet radio, following inquiries from BuzzFeed News.
The recapture of Palmyra and its military airport, in the central Syrian desert, opened up the road further east to the Islamic State bastions of Deir al-Zor province and Raqqa.
As new threats against the press escalate, today's courts should feel compelled to buttress the few safeguards that are left for the news media -- one of the last bastions of silence.
The coasts are derided as bastions of bad ideas and good money chasing after bad ideas while the entrepreneurs are unable to tell a coherent story of why they deserve attention.
Still, old school pockets of strangeness have managed to hold ground and new bastions of cheap, DIY leanings keep cropping up in neighborhoods from SoMa to the Dogpatch to the Mission.
"It was one of the last bastions of enterprise software that's yet to go through the same disruption that every other major software company [has gone through]," COO James Novak said.
Mr. Netanyahu, a scion of Ashkenazi elite himself, has played to those resentments, attacking as illegitimate the media and legal establishments, powerful sectors of Israeli society considered bastions of Ashkenazi power.
Orban, speaking on Wednesday at Budapest's National Public Service University, said the election would decide if Hungary was flooded with immigrants, and that students were "important bastions" of the country's future.
BEIJING — An independent think tank that was one of China's few remaining bastions for liberal-democratic ideas was shut out of its Beijing offices on Wednesday, throwing its survival into doubt.
Each time, his efforts met the same result, while laws were passed in traditional liberal bastions, like Connecticut and Washington, D.C., and also approved through a bipartisan effort in New Hampshire.
And though candidates who supported the walkouts won some state-level elections in November, the movement was not able to flip party control in red bastions like Arizona and West Virginia.
Ireland's status as one of the last bastions of traditional social conservatism in the West had already suffered a blow in 2015, when the country voted to legalize same-sex marriage.
With no sign of intervention yet by his foreign foes, government forces seem set for another big victory in the war after crushing the last remaining rebel bastions near Damascus and Homs.
The Conservatives, by contrast, have worked successfully to appeal to more working-class voters in traditional Labour strongholds like the northeast of England that emerged as Brexit bastions in last year's referendum.
And if, as Sam says, the Night King wants to kill Bran in order to attack the keeper of man's history, then he'll also want to get rid of other historical bastions.
The prime minister of Belgium, one of the EU's last bastions of federalism, has called for a "conclave" of EU leaders to discuss such proposals, including a change to the EU's treaties.
Kotkin actually believes workers currently do better in low-union-density environments like right-to-work Texas where housing is cheaper on average than union bastions like Washington State and New York.
Yet here's our dirty little secret: Some of our most liberal bastions in America rely on a system of inherited privilege that benefits rich whites at the expense of almost everyone else.
In upscale Istanbul neighborhoods that used to be the traditional bastions of Europeanized Turkish secularists, the reconfiguration toward Arab and other Muslim tourists is visible in hookah lounges and halal steak restaurants.
Its scholars hail from conservative bastions like Hillsdale College in Michigan and the Claremont Institute, which is just a few miles from Glendora and publishes the Trump-friendly Claremont Review of Books.
Nearly 23 years since Hong Kong was returned to China under a "one country, two systems" framework, the judiciary is seen as one of the last bastions of its freedoms and autonomy.
We see this hate for the Constitution primarily in our universities, as across the country, what used to be bastions of free speech and civil rights have turned into Orwellian reeducation centers.
School spending levels, about $11,0003 per student in 2016, are far below those in other blue bastions; for example, California spends about half as much as New York on the average child.
"It's so hypocritical for these liberal schools to only showcase one point of view when they've claimed for decades that their campuses are bastions of free expression of ideas," Falwell told me.
"If you look at the former bastions of the auto industry like Detroit, Oxford-Cowley or Turin, you understand what happens to cities when once powerful corporations and leading industries falter," he added.
The top three are urban coastal bastions of the art establishment, but the rest of the list takes us on an insta-journey from New Jersey and Florida to Pittsburgh, Texas, and Arizona.
The Indivisible network, explicitly modeled on tea party grass-roots activism, has already shown local strength in Democratic bastions and Republican strongholds alike, something it took months for tea party groups to achieve.
There are a few data points that have given Democrats reason to hope this is happening: Occasional polls have shown Clinton close or ahead in deep red bastions like South Carolina and Texas.
Now, the coalition has its eyes set on Mosul, one of the last bastions of Islamic State-rule in Iraq and has to turn its attentions to Syria where ISIS still holds Raqqa.
For a series that's so often treated its primary antagonists as towering, intimidating bastions of evil, that feels radical, but it also punctures their balloons and makes them a little more ridiculously human.
The Conservatives, by contrast, have worked successfully to appeal to more working-class voters in former Labour strongholds like the Northeast of England, places that emerged as Brexit bastions in last year's referendum.
Hence, Gazi is also seen as one of the last bastions of a struggle against the gentrification that has transformed the central districts of Istanbul, and made them inaccessible to less wealthy citizens.
The longstanding power imbalance between the Global North and South, including bastions of white privilege in the former and atrocities of colonialism in the latter, makes the white variety of saviorism especially pernicious.
Cooper writes movingly about coming of age as a black woman in the Baptist Church and on the campus of Howard University—two bastions of black power and, in her experience, black patriarchy.
BEIRUT (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Syria's war entered its ninth year on Friday, with fresh violence forcing thousands to flee from separate assaults on the last bastions of Islamic State and rebel-held territories.
Latino participation in Southern California and urban growth in Northern California expanded the Democrats' centers of power among demographic minorities and progressives, leaving Republicans with rural areas and conservative bastions like Orange County.
Elyssa Dimant's "The New French Couture" (Harper Design, $85, 280 pp.) is an immersive introduction to the eight most stalwart bastions of the haute couture tradition, Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Dior among them.
But as Mr. Trump prepares to take office, Democratic bastions, including Boston, Philadelphia and San Francisco, have reaffirmed plans to defy the administration and act as a kind of bulwark against mass deportations.
N.Y.U. has caught plenty of flak for locating liberal arts programs in countries ruled by monarchs and Communists, but it contends that its schools are unimpeded bastions of free thought in illiberal environments.
In Caracas, one of the traditional chavista bastions is the community known as the 23rd of January, for the date of the military coup that overthrew the dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez, in 1958.
Yet we have seen it this year in both — which were previously considered bastions of press freedom — that journalists are being murdered and that there is a parallel of anti-press rhetoric happening.
Over time, these cities become bastions of tech companies and workers, which in turn encourage the growth of other tech infrastructure, like fast broadband internet, public transit, and a higher quality of living.
Over the next decade, prepare for a new wave of efforts to reach some of the last remaining bastions of peace, quiet and individual focus — like schools, libraries, churches and even our homes.
Cook Political Report's Dave Wasserman notes that it's the least populous U.S. city to have a Whole Foods, Lululemon, Apple Store, Urban Outfitters and Pure Barre — all bastions of the urban millennial lifestyle.
A study published on Wednesday in the Journal of General Internal Medicine offers an additional explanation: declining health and rising death rates in rural Republican bastions helped tilt the presidential election toward Trump.
"Hollywood's toxic brew of fear and sexism has kept women even more confined than those in legendary male bastions like Silicon Valley," Maureen Dowd wrote in November in the New York Times Magazine.
Officials in Misrata say the fight against Islamic State has improved relations with residents of Sirte and the inland town of Bani Walid, both bastions of Gaddafi support that Misrata rebels attacked during 2011.
"It's a divide between the winners and losers of globalization ... In the outskirts, the depressed former industrial bastions, rural enclaves, people feel left on the side of the road, isolated," Ifop's Jerome Fourquet said.
That's essentially the offering of Cool Cousin, an app and web site which is mining one of the last bastions of social media not entirely figured out by Facebook: the social recommendation of places.
Apple sees itself as one of the last bastions of not just consumer privacy, but also a generation of tech companies that simply make solid products and sell them without ulterior motives at play.
Pena Nieto's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, lost several bastions in Sunday's regional elections to the center-right opposition, underscoring anger at his failure to crack down on corruption and quell gang violence.
Tamaulipas has long been one of the Mexican states most impacted by the violence of the country's drug wars, and the tight control some drug cartels exert over the civilian populations in their bastions.
But the rich leading roles have too often if not entirely been shuffled over to younger actresses, bastions of beauty and promise instead of reminders that time is unrelenting and coming for us all.
Other places, like Chain Reaction in Anaheim, the Tiki Bar in Costa Mesa, Programme HQ, the Slidebar, and Continental Room in Fullerton remain more contemporary bastions of punk passion every day of the week.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has taken the National Hospital in Raqqa, one of Islamic State's last remaining bastions in its former Syrian capital, a militia spokesman said on Tuesday.
But it graduated into what W magazine in 21980 called "Les Six," joining La Grenouille, La Caravelle, La Côte Basque, Lafayette and Quo Vadis as the last bastions of grand dining in New York.
Many of the gyms that cater to fashion models and investment bankers can feel like bastions of blowouts and entitlement, while public parks and recreation centers still welcome urban dwellers across every imaginable spectrum.
Drop in price: 39%Median airfare: $339Cape Cod, a peninsula jutting out of Massachusetts, has everything from quaint fishing towns like Chatham and artsy, LGTBQ-friendly bastions like Provincetown, to moneyed hotspots like Hyannis.
Washington (CNN)For almost a decade now, governors' offices have been a weak link for national Democrats, with Republicans racking up stunning and continuous wins in deep-blue bastions like Maryland, Massachusetts and New Jersey.
While many French people don't especially like foreigners and -- since their own terrorist attacks from radical Islam -- are in some fear of importing terror, they also still consider themselves bastions of freedom and human rights.
But in the most liberal bastions of the country, mayors must also answer to their constituents who want to see path to citizenship for as many as 11 million immigrants living in the United States.
As with other races, this one has exposed the tensions between national Democrats looking for moderate candidates who can storm old GOP bastions and local parties that tend to be more dominated by grassroots activists.
The decision ends a month of wrangling by would-be potential successors and is likely to buoy Democrats hoping to steal a seat from Republicans in one of the most conservative bastions in New York.
For those living in the countries from which the unmanned aircraft are piloted — far from war zones or terrorist bastions or unsuspecting wedding parties caught in the crosshairs — drones remain a faceless weapon of war.
An important part of Mr. Chang's persona at the start was his outsider status, casting stones at (or at least making withering remarks about) the bastions of haute cuisine where he had learned his trade.
Coyotes are largely associated with their ancestral bastions in the wild lands of the American West, but they are highly adaptable, and in recent years they have been colonizing large population centers throughout North America.
The temptations of authoritarianism à la Russe have found fertile ground in countries that long saw themselves as bastions of Western values like Hungary and Poland, and that had long histories of hostility toward Moscow.
If Democrats can hang together and maintain focus on issues that unite their caucus and public opinion while driving wedges between Trump and his bastions of congressional support, he can be checked and ultimately beaten.
"Opposition municipalities cannot be used as bastions in the political fight between opposition parties and the government," he said, saying that more than 3 million of Hungary's 10 million people now live in opposition-run communities.
More than 100,000 health workers fanned out across Pakistan this week, stepping up a drive to eliminate the polio virus this year from one of its last bastions, despite threats from militants against the vaccination teams.
Fewer than one in five New York City voters cast ballots for Trump; his support here was mostly limited to Staten Island, Hasidic Williamsburg, and other rare bastions of conservatism in the nation's liberal cultural capital.
When this neighborhood diner won a James Beard Award in 2000, it was only the third restaurant from Hawaii to be recognized by the foundation — after the upscale bastions of local cuisine, Alan Wong's and Roy's.
The US-Kurdish relationship was integral in the fight — the Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-majority militia backed by US military assets, successfully ousted ISIS militants from their bastions and imprisoned them in makeshift detention centers.
The fort is full of perfectly symmetrical bastions, passages and corridors on the upper and lower tiers, as well as powder magazines, and plenty of vantage points to look out to the dreamy, endless turquoise water.
PHILADELPHIA — Federica Mogherini, an Italian diplomat who serves as the European Union's top foreign policy official, spends most of her time shuttling among Whitehall, the Quai d'Orsay and other elegant bastions of Europe's foreign policy establishment.
Perhaps most significantly, they have helped pass anti-union legislation in once heavily unionized states and embarked on well-organized campaigns to discourage workers from paying union dues and fees in liberal bastions like Washington State.
One of the last bastions of DIY culture in skateboarding, the trend began in the 60s but really blew up in the 20113s, with enterprising kids equipped with buckets, pumps, and little regard for private property.
From the Fire Island Pines to Provincetown's beaches and elsewhere around the world, cruising has always been an integral part of how gay people have come together to form bastions of acceptance in a bigoted world.
The action came two weeks after Mr. Trump angered Beijing by speaking by phone to the leader of Taiwan, and almost a week after he criticized China for building military bastions in the South China Sea.
In this bleak worldview—which now governs most of the former bastions of Enlightenment-age democracy—the only way to maintain life is to let it end in those regions not preselected for social Darwinian survival.
But even the highly polarized result confirmed Spain as one of the last bastions of socialism in Europe, at a time when center-left parties have all but collapsed in countries including France, Germany and Italy.
Those 39 should band together now to make clear that they will serve, at least informally, as bastions of our democracy should a peaceful transfer of power look threatened by any candidate's response to the election.
Newsom took 6900 trips to Southern California in 2628, while Villaraigosa has already spent more than a month campaigning in the Central Valley and the Inland Empire, some of the last Republican bastions in the state.
Such evacuations have helped President Bashar al-Assad recapture several rebel bastions over the past year and are criticized by the opposition as amounting to the forced transfer of populations seen as sympathetic to the opposition.
It's exhausting and stressful trying to find work, stay clean, and keep the car running, especially when many people don't want you in their neighborhood, their parks, or their libraries, the last bastions of the homeless.
Researchers at Yale and Utah State University estimate that majorities want to impose strict limits on coal-fired power plants, not just in liberal cities but also in conservative bastions such as Amarillo, Texas and Provo, Utah.
While Trump laced his discourse with religious undertones and references to his nation's rural and industrial hinterlands - key bastions of his support - he refrained from hurling barbs at his rivals, some of whom were in the audience.
Given the role that the middle class has historically held as bastions of political moderation and stability, it's increasingly clear that this is not just a problem for the U.S. economy, it's a problem for U.S. society.
Smith has turned the Science panel, which was one of the last bastions of bipartisanship in Congress, into a committee that regularly plays host to climate deniers and critics of the science research conducted at federal agencies.
That claim may be difficult to believe, though, especially when he has already used Twitter to blast so-called "professional" agitators for instigating protests against his upcoming presidency, and attacked media bastions like The New York Times.
The loss of Elmhurst's capacity "makes the market much less competitive in terms of milk prices," he said, "and it's tough because Elmhurst was one of the last bastions of good unionized jobs and good living wages."
Despite introducing a strict drug-testing system to combat race fixing, and new rules to improve animal welfare, greyhound racing in the UK and Ireland—two of the sport's last bastions—still stands accused of shady practices.
XALAPA, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico's ruling party lost several bastions in Sunday's regional elections to the center-right opposition, dealing a heavy blow to President Enrique Pena Nieto for failing to crack down on corruption and gang violence.
Idlib is one of the last main strongholds of anti-Assad rebels who have been driven from most of their bastions in Syria since Russia joined the war on the side of the Damascus government in 2015.
The PRI, which ruled Mexico from 1929 until 2000, and eventually became synonymous with political corruption, lost several bastions to the center-right National Action Party, which has made graft-fighting one of its key electoral issues.
Mr. Ryan, a former football player from the Youngstown area, is in stark contrast with Ms. Pelosi, an affluent scion of a Baltimore political family long ensconced in San Francisco, one of the country's most liberal bastions.
Extraordinary turnout in California, New York, Illinois and other Democratic bastions could not compensate for the president's abiding popularity in the states that still decide who gets to live in the White House: Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida.
Four years ago, Mr. Sanders dominated in Orange County, home to progressive bastions like Chapel Hill and Carrboro, and Buncombe County, home to Asheville, the attractive mountain city full of New Age seekers and liberal northern transplants.
On Twitter, Netanyahu later said he was calling an emergency meeting with his campaign officials to discuss what he described as lower voter turnout in Likud strongholds compared with a strong voting percentage in "left-wing bastions".
When local officials and the courts pressed for construction of relatively small numbers of moderate income housing units in such upscale liberal bastions as San Francisco (Clinton 84.5 percent, Trump 9.2 percent) and neighboring Marin County, Calif.
In extraordinary scenes over Caracas around sunset on Tuesday, the stolen helicopter fired shots at the Interior Ministry and dropped grenades on the Supreme Court, both viewed by Venezuela's opposition as bastions of support for a dictator.
CBS News reports that the pizza and entertainment chain restaurant, one of modern America's last bastions of art and culture, will begin phasing out its signature animatronic bands at seven locations in a pivot toward live performers.
LONDON (Reuters) - With banks' bond trading desks increasingly going electronic, another of the last bastions of old-school banking - the business of helping companies and countries raise capital - may be about to succumb to the tide of technology.
The names may give the impression that the fight is between old and new leaders, but the rivalry has more to do with the groups' different territorial bastions and the lack of major figures to keep them together.
But the idea that contemporary Asian massage parlors are bastions of sex trafficking has come not only from officials and law enforcement, but also some of the hundreds of non-profit organizations devoted to combatting that very thing.
Downsizing the significant geographic area of Iraq and Syria that the ISIS caliphate claimed at one point, U.S. intelligence eventually determined that Baghdadi was holed up in one of the last bastions still under the terrorist group's control.
There was no immediate word on who opened fire from Syrian territory, but forces arrayed against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria expect the group will resort to guerrilla warfare after losing its urban bastions earlier this year.
Even though we're, oh, a decade or so into the box office dominance of Marvel movies, there are still occasional jarring reminders that the once niche bastions of nerd culture are now firmly entrenched in the mainstream discourse.
Aleppo is one of the bastions of the rebellion to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose army is backed on the ground by Shi'ite Muslim militias from neighboring countries and from the skies by Russian air strikes.
The strike could ignite organizing that could help to improve working conditions for tens of thousands of auto workers throughout the South, where auto plants have moved in recent years to avoid UAW bastions in the Rust Belt.
Following the collapse of ISIS' bastions in Iraq and Syria, scores of these foreign nationals were either killed or captured by coalition forces — leaving many of the prisoners' fates in limbo as their governments debate on their status.
One German banker, who sent his children to Westminster school, cautioned his countrymen against sending their children to these bastions of excess and entitlement, where the education was no better than what children gained for free in Germany.
LONDON, July 19 (Reuters) - Passengers on London's underground railway will soon be able to make and receive calls, filling an annoying communications gap for some but depriving others of one of the last bastions of mobile phone silence.
In the heart of pisserenden ("the piss gutter," as Copenhagen's high street is known), between trendy second hand clothing stores and doughnut shops brimming with millennials, lies Floss, one of the few remaining bastions of Copenhagen's punk scene.
My own path was always going to be more rooted in paganism and witchcraft than most bastions of modern Satanism, and neither the Satanic Temple nor the Church of Satan made room for that sort of magical thinking.
Performance Space 2122, one of New York City's downtown bastions of innovative visual art, dance and theater, will return to its home in the East Village in January, after six nomadic years while the organization's building was renovated.
As in every other sector of porn, fetishers started moving giantess clips from paywalled and niche bastions of the internet onto growing tube sites, like Pornhub, where they could share them around easily and access them for free.
The area, which was directly in the path of the storm, is one of the largest bastions of multigenerational family farming in the country, and a major national producer of cotton, peanuts, sweet corn, pine timber and poultry.
Dense urban areas—traditionally bastions of Democratic support—are likely to be hardest hit by a pandemic, and a low-turnout, in-person, mid-pandemic election could tilt results even more in favor of more conservative rural districts.
On Wednesday, Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel chided the Democratic committee chairs who stood behind Pelosi as they announced articles of impeachment, pointing out that they hail from the liberal bastions of California, New York and Massachusetts.
Since Russia entered the war on the side of President Bashar al-Assad and his Iranian and Shi'ite militia allies in 2015, the government has reclaimed large areas including all the big rebel bastions in Syria's main cities.
World College Radio Day was founded in 2010 in order to celebrate "one of the last remaining bastions of creative radio programming" and encourage "people who would not normally listen to college radio to do so on this day".
That shortcoming was underlined by the large crowds turning out for rallies for the opposition's Mahathir Mohamad, the 92-year-old former prime minister, in predominantly Malay areas that had long been bastions of support for the ruling coalition.
Bastions of modern ideals in Game of Thrones are starting to understand what it means to set aside power, legacy, and pride Like everyone else, Daenerys still only understands "winning" through patriarchal practices like birthright, tribalism, and brute force.
While many publishers have primarily shifted to the more lucrative space of live-service games, Sony has become one of the last bastions of support for lavishly produced story-driven titles — which is what makes Days Gone so disappointing.
U.S.-backed rebels are fighting to oust Islamic State fighters from their last two major bastions - Mosul in Iraq and the Euphrates River valley near Raqqa in Syria - in battles which Washington hopes could crush the group this year.
Much of the League's anger is focused on stalled efforts to hand greater autonomy to the regions - something the party's wealthy, northern strongholds have long demanded, but which 5-Star fears will strip funds from their own southern bastions.
It's a clear sign that the Sanders camp doesn't see the Democratic nominating contest ending anytime soon, with liberal bastions like New York (which votes in April) and California (June) available as opportunities to rack up lots of delegates.
The two manic days after the referendum saw some of the last remaining bastions of Labour Scotland—namely Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling and the Daily Record newspaper—indicate a new acceptance of independence in the changed climate.
XALAPA, Mexico, June 6 (Reuters) - Mexico's ruling party looked set to lose control of several bastions in Sunday's regional elections, dealing a heavy blow to President Enrique Pena Nieto for failing to crack down on corruption and gang violence.
Medical research is one of the last bastions of genuine bipartisanship (as long as we set aside, say, stem cells and a few other contentious areas) and even Republicans in Congress were critical of the White House's proposed cuts.
Two lawmakers started a petition drive last week hoping to build on legalization efforts elsewhere, including other deep red bastions like Utah and North Dakota, and put a Constitutional Amendment on medical marijuana on the state ballot in 2020.
Erdogan saw his Islamist-rooted AK Party lose the capital Ankara in Sunday's local elections and appeared set for defeat in Turkey's largest city Istanbul - stunning reversals in two bastions of the party since he took power in 2003.
As it stands, the Democratic primary system disproportionately favors candidates able to appeal to overwhelming white electoral bastions in the Midwest and New England, a counterintuitive strategy considering the centrality of people of color to the party's electoral base.
Were the Conservative Party of Prime Minister Theresa May to lose control of bastions like Westminster or the borough of Wandsworth, it could embolden those opposed to leaving the European Union and renew speculation about a challenge to Mrs.
PARIS (Reuters) - Arab and Kurdish forces will be given additional support to help retake Islamic State's bastions in Syria and Iraq, French President Francois Hollande said on Thursday, adding that 2016 had to be the year of transition in Syria.
Those issues merit attention, although the truth is this inside-baseball exercise will likely resonate loudest in the typical media bastions, while Ailes' ideological allies will do what he would have done -- namely, circle the wagons and shoot the messenger.
Knowing little about the man or the place he hoped to represent, donors from liberal bastions of California, New York, and Massachusetts poured money into Ossoff's campaign and turned him into a household name because, well, the internet made it easy.
Feeling used by the government, Mexican cane farmers are fuming, further eroding already flagging support for Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, ahead of a 2018 presidential vote, just as a leftist nationalist is making inroads into its traditional bastions.
Hannity has been the staunchest of staunch Trump backers for years, while more establishment conservative figures like Napolitano and Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace have established reputations as bastions of rationality amid the surrounding sea of MAGA on their network.
The fall of Daraya, whose inhabitants were evacuated through a deal with the government, dealt a major psychological blow to the opposition while encouraging the army to believe it was in reach of subduing rebel bastions around the heavily fortified capital.
But most importantly, Stanton's Humans of New York blog and social media platforms — which showcase his portrait photography on the streets of NYC and elsewhere — seem to be some of the internet's last bastions of inclusivity, compassion, and straight-up humanity.
In deep-blue bastions like New York, California, Washington and Vermont, there's virtually no downside to voting third-party — though if both houses of Congress remain in Republican control, the popular vote will matter much more than it usually does.
To gain a majority, Democrats need to find a way to win races in districts like this one — traditional Republican bastions endangered by Donald Trump's weakness with college graduates — but they don't need to sweep them all by any means.
California Democrats completed their sweep of the congressional delegation in Orange County on Saturday as Gil Cisneros defeated Young Kim, a Republican, to capture a seat in what had once been one of the most conservative Republican bastions in the nation.
Liberal bastions, principally large cities like Budapest and Szeged in the south, were divided so that large numbers of people were packed into a handful of parliamentary districts, while each district in Hungary's conservative countryside had fewer people in it.
Although Democrats proved they could win back Midwestern states without their old strength in industrial-era Democratic bastions, this is a tougher route to victory in states where white voters without a degree represent an above average share of voters.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More women are sitting on the boards of Britain's largest 100 companies, with big gains in the traditional male bastions of building and manufacturing, yet very few hold the top jobs, a report said on Thursday.
The three cities, which account for more than 1.2 million of Congo's roughly 40 million registered voters, are known as bastions of opposition to outgoing President Joseph Kabila, who is supporting his former interior minister, Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, in the race.
Like Ms. Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos, another right-wing provocateur whose visit to the campus sparked outrage in February, Mr. Shapiro has made a career out of poking fun of liberal beliefs and casting college campuses as bastions of intellectual intolerance.
The increasing Democratic strength within populous, racially diverse metropolitan areas like Atlanta, Houston and Phoenix will leave its mark on the electoral map as soon as the 2020 election, transforming Georgia, Texas and Arizona from Republican bastions to contested battlegrounds.
Syrian troops supported by Russian warplanes and special forces have been battling since December to eradicate the last rebel bastions in Idlib and Aleppo provinces in what could be one of the final chapters of the nine-year-old civil war.
AZAZ, Syria/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish forces and Syrian rebels fought government troops in northwest Syria on Thursday and Russian warplanes struck back in a sharp escalation of an intense battle over the last rebel bastions, Russian and Turkish officials said.
To the Editor: Most of those who believe that campuses are losing their status as bastions of free speech attended college decades ago, when it was the only avenue for sheltered former suburbanites to gain access to other points of view.
I understand that cupcakes are not intended to be bastions of practicality—and the modern spectacle-driven dessert market increasingly prizes form over function—but that shouldn't hold us back from expecting more when the opportunity to improve is so simple and actionable.
More recently, the Davis Cup, one of the last bastions of the sport's traditionalists, has shifted most lower-level matches to three sets, and is currently mulling a massive overhaul that would result in a more television-friendly, World Cup-style event.
At a time when the Democratic Party has drastically scaled back operations nationwide in conservative bastions like Alabama, it fell to civil rights leaders -- including activists and ministers, attorneys and businessmen -- to organize and energize black voters to vote for Doug Jones.
But conservative populist messages are succeeding in the bastions of the old industrial-era left across the West, whether with pro-Brexit voters in northern England, or in Austria, where right-wing populists won areas carried by Social Democrats a decade earlier.
Far rightists such as France's Marine Le Pen cheer the Central Europeans' ballot box victories and affronts to the EU, viewing them as the bastions of a Europe-wide movement: national populism in power, exactly where she and her peers want to be.
The campaign also extended to cities in Georgia's south, like Albany and Savannah, where Ms. Abrams performed well, and in Atlanta's vote-rich suburbs, former bastions of Republican power that have undergone immense demographic changes and increasingly vote for Democrats in statewide races.
Fifteen states and the District of Columbia have passed so-called green-light laws allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures; they include solidly Democratic states like Washington and California, and conservative bastions like Utah.
For years, Democrats have hoped that the growing non-white population would remake the American political landscape in their favor -- turning red bastions in the Sun Belt like Arizona, Georgia and Texas into swing states and guaranteeing Democratic victories in Florida and Nevada.
Donald J. Trump has taken office in a nation that is not only growing more diverse, but also growing more diverse everywhere, because of both foreign immigration and shifting internal migration patterns that are touching the last bastions of nearly all-white America.
Yet Mr Becerra appears to have been emboldened to use his new powers by the Republican sweep in November, which has left him, and a clutch of other powerful Democratic attorneys-general—including Eric Schneiderman in New York—as rare bastions of Democratic resistance.
But now with Donald Trump in the White House and California's midterm primaries set for June 5, Celedon is convinced change may finally come -- to her beloved hometown and to the Central Valley, one of the few remaining bastions of conservativism in America's bluest state.
The U.S. military commander in Iraq has said he believes U.S.-backed forces will retake both of Islamic State's urban bastions - the other is the Syrian city of Raqqa - within six months, which would end the jihadists' ambitions to rule and govern significant territory.
And it is seemingly inexorable: after the first disclosures in Ireland in the 1990s, the scandal spread through western Europe and North America; it has since reached South America and eastern Europe to assail erstwhile bastions of the faith such as Poland and Chile.
A combination of weak turnout in liberal bastions like Philadelphia and an unexpected surge of voters in rural and suburban areas was responsible for delivering the Republican candidate his shocking win—one replicated in swing states across America, including Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, and New Hampshire.
The success of Beto O'Rourke, widely seen as a rising star in the political world, is particularly noteworthy because he is campaigning in communities across Texas that have been bastions of deep-red GOP support that Democrats rarely visit and even Republicans often ignore.
But just as Ms. Pelosi's Democrats were preparing sweeping House hearings into the tech companies' concentration of power, some of her party's leading presidential candidates spent the weekend canvassing Silicon Valley to raise money from one of the nation's wealthiest and most liberal bastions.
"The gym and exercise is one of the few bastions where you have to put your phone away," said Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, an associate professor of history at the New School who teaches Intensati, a workout combining interval training, martial arts, dance and yoga.
On the higher ground to the east, neighborhoods of single-family and semidetached homes that sprung up in the early 503s as housing projects for army officers are bastions of a more ethnically mixed, middle-class, liberal and secular Israel that votes center-left.
The bills, which were passed by the State Legislature on Monday evening, bring New York in line with policies in other liberal bastions like California and Washington, and they would quiet, at least for a day, complaints about the state's antiquated approach to suffrage.
Xu's arrest comes in the midst of an escalating trade war, with the Trump administration imposing tariffs on Chinese products and China retaliating with tariffs of its own, primarily on US agricultural products grown in regions that are considered bastions of political support of President Trump.
"Some silver lining in this report is that affordability actually improved in some of the highest-priced markets (like San Francisco) that have been bastions of bad affordability, mostly the result of annual home price appreciation slowing to low single-digit percentages in those markets," said Blomquist.
"I know this sounds somewhat contrary to the political chaos we've seen over the years, but frankly Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and Turkey — while hardly bastions of political serenity — on a relative basis to what's already rerated especially those currencies look very interesting to me," he said.
Generally, voter turnout tends to be considerably lower in solidly Democratic or Republican-leaning bastions, such as New York and California, where approximately 2900 percent and 220006 percent of eligible voters turned out, respectively, or Texas (2202 percent) and Oklahoma (2628 percent) (statistics from The Election Project).
Once ignored in the interest of short term political advantage, these bastions of liberty become weakened and precedent is established for ignoring them in future cases when the shoe may be on the other foot, when the radical right is seeking to impeach a Democratic president.
The U.S. military commander in Iraq has said he believes U.S.-backed forces will retake both of IS's urban bastions - Mosul and Raqqa in neighboring Syria - within the next six months, which would end the jihadists' ambitions to territorial rule three years after they declared a "caliphate".
The public broadcaster, the Radio Television of Serbia, quickly fell into line, but so did former bastions of critical thought like the now defunct B92, a critical radio and later TV channel that used to be synonymous with brave journalism during the Yugoslav wars in the 90s.
Meade told a crowd of backers "we are going to win" at a rally in the northern state of Coahuila, one of a dwindling number bastions of the PRI, which ruled Mexico for 71 years running until it was voted out for the first time in 2000.
What do you do with the knowledge that roughly a third of American boys' names end with "n," or that newly invented names like Brayden and Nevaeh tend to be big in red states, while blue states are bastions of traditional favorites such as Joseph and Sophia?
I see the irony: Morocco and Turkey aren't thought of as bastions of women's lib, and the clothed portions of my trips meant annoyances like climbing a mountain in a full-length skirt or wrapping on a headscarf to enter a mosque in triple-digit heat.
The Democratic Party and left parties around the world are becoming bastions for people who fit that demographic description and have very socially liberal ideas, but they're shedding their working-class support, and you saw that certainly in the UK in the last election with Jeremy Corbyn.
For example, on May 13 a not-so-dissimilar rally was held in Charlottesville in support of protecting the Robert E. Lee statue at the center of all the controversy, and bastions of liberalism like Portland, OR and Berkeley, CA have been home to recent confrontations.
The final Times/Siena poll of California's 48th shows the Democrat Harley Rouda leading Mr. Rohrabacher narrowly with an electorate where registered Republicans outnumber Democrats by 453 points, an indicator of the extent that Republicans are struggling in the wealthy suburban bastions of 20th century conservatism.
Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday said it had appointed José Mourinho to replace Mauricio Pochettino as manager, capping a remarkable 12 hours of turmoil and suspense for a club that has in recent years earned an image as one of the Premier League's rare bastions of stability.
One of the last bastions of old-school SF glamour dining, the iconic House of Prime Rib is now mostly populated by a mix of families and attractive tattooed young people who want to relive the days of huge, strong martinis and prime rib carved tableside.
While it might have once been fine to release some catchy songs and shout "girl power" a lot, pop groups are now expected to be shining bastions of wokeness and liberation on every social platform, while also not upsetting the Radio 1 normie mum crowd and weekend tabloid readers.
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Music gatherings — long bastions of ephemeral intimacy and relaxed inhibitions — have become the site of bomb-sniffing dogs, body scanners and high-definition closed circuit cameras, particularly in the wake of recent large-scale attacks on concerts including the Bataclan rock club in Paris and the Manchester Arena.
Indeed, the northern Atlanta suburbs, once considered bastions of Republicanism, are experiencing an identity crisis — one that became acute with the success of a Democrat, Jon Ossoff, in a special House of Representatives election in Georgia's Sixth District, which last sent a Democrat to Congress in the Carter administration.
The dispute seems to illustrate the conflict between those who view cultural institutions as bastions of free thought that should embrace activism and those who think that, to protect the primacy of the performance, political statements should be limited to those made by the artists and the art.
He studied at the New York Academy of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts — both bastions of traditional figurative painting and sculpture — and he paints with his subjects arranged in frontal poses, as if for a photograph (which, since these look like paintings from photos, they probably were).
While the site is relatively small, with a little over 210,2000 creators and two million people donating monthly to those creators, it has become the de facto paycheck for a cohort of prominent self-styled internet philosophers who eschew or have been ousted from traditional bastions like universities or magazines.
Eva Golinger, an American lawyer who was a close friend of the leftist strongman Hugo Chávez, Mr. Maduro's mentor and predecessor, said the government could no longer count on its traditional bastions of support to overpower opposition movements, which in the past were led by wealthy and middle-class Venezuelans.
Dillon said the situation has had a negative impact on operations against ISIS, impeding the coalition's ability to transfer arms and equipment to its allies in Syria and Iraq as it seeks to oust ISIS from its last bastions of control in the Middle Euphrates River Valley, which connects Iraq and Syria.
But Mr. Trump won low-income white voters to the Republican ticket, reversing a partisan divide along class lines that is as old as the Democratic and Republican Parties — a replay of the "Brexit" vote in June, when the old bastions of England's Labor-left voted decisively to leave the European Union.
This is in part why so many of these suburbs -- from Orange County California to Nassau County, New York -- have been trending Democratic in recent years: Many of the white voters who once made them Republican bastions have either moved or died and have been largely replaced by Democratic-leaning people of color.
While unrest percolated at home, Macron turned his attention to shoring up the European Union — "going full de Gaulle," according to Foreign Policy's Robert Zaretsky — bringing himself close to German Chancellor Angela Merkel as bastions of centrism on the continent and using his position as a bully pulpit against the U.K.'s botched Brexit process.
Yet the bastions of power—the corporate ziggurats of L.A., cliff-high and elephant gray, which viewers of the first film will recall with awe—remain in place, unbreached, and the hordes at ground level seethe not with a lust for liberation but with a busy trade in high-tech assistance and lowly sexual favors.
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KIRYAT MALACHI, Israel — In the more liberal bastions of Tel Aviv and its well-to-do suburbs, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's critics tut-tut with each new revelation in the intensifying bribery cases against him, condemning his attacks on the police and eagerly anticipating his political downfall with each former aide who turns state's witness.
Of course, some will argue that Republicans are doing well on the state level, but as major cities become bastions for diverse groups and those major cities dictate the direction of those states, it is only a matter of time before those states become what we call "purple" or switch to the opposite party completely.
We are used to the idea that Labour is one of the main bastions of pro-Europeanism in this country, but in its current leadership you have people who in the past have campaigned for Britain to leave the EU, who perhaps come across as more ambivalent about Europe than the likes of Tony Blair or Ed Miliband.
As one of the last bastions of specialized metalwork in Europe, Arthus-Bertrand continues to serve tradition, producing medals, commemorative coins, decorations, trophies and ceremonial necklaces for monarchs, presidents and cultural institutions in 35 countries, from the Order of the British Empire for the United Kingdom to ceremonial swords for the "immortals" of the Académie Française.
"Dancing is going to be one of the last bastions of homophobia to fall because it is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire," says Barbara Zoloth, founding member and President of the North American Same-Sex Partner Dance Association, in the documentary Hot to Trot, which comes out tomorrow in New York and September 14th in Los Angeles.
He came into office viewing agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency as bastions of what he calls the "deep state," and his contempt for their past work on the issue is an animating factor in trying to force them to abandon key aspects of the methodology they use to try to understand the causes and consequences of a dangerously warming planet.
Its creator, Chris Stroop, a former evangelical Christian, urged those who had attended Christian schools to use it and "tell how traumatizing those bastions of bigotry are," calling out Vice President Mike Pence, whose wife decided two weeks ago to return to teaching at a private Christian school that does not allow gay, bisexual or transgender students, parents or employees.

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