Robust mangrove forests act as bulwarks against storm surges as well.
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Party primaries were traditionally bulwarks against demagogues rising in American politics.
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He directed Cooker to hook the caving ladder onto the bulwarks.
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The courts are supposed to be bulwarks against this kind of overreach.
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So recent "Stop Soros" laws are framed, likewise, as bulwarks against immigration.
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And some build into true monsters that overwhelm even the bulwarks built against them.
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In this way they are the institutional bulwarks against political fragmentation and ethnic conflict.
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If the vision is conservatism without Trump, the party bulwarks are there to support it.
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Mathematicians, for all their strengths, are not typically seen as the great bulwarks of democracy.
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The bills were pushed by Republicans who said they were crucial bulwarks against voter fraud.
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In these and other instances, our political institutions served as crucial bulwarks against authoritarian tendencies.
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The institutional bulwarks against Mr. Sanders are significant: Hundreds of the party's "superdelegates" have endorsed Mrs.
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This is down to the fact that the intelligence agencies are not bulwarks of Trump's power.
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But the reduced progressive commitment to these critical bulwarks helped clear the way for a demagogue.
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The Republican Party platform has an array of plans for getting rid of those last bulwarks.
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Pictures posted on social media showed waves crashing against bulwarks, panels flying off roofs, and fallen trees.
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Where O'Rourke fits into the race ideologically is less clear compared to progressive bulwarks like Vermont Sen.
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Decades of counter-terrorism teaches that the best bulwarks against extremism are states that are prosperous and just.
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"Our courts today worked as they should as bulwarks against government abuse or unconstitutional policies and orders," he said.
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Republicans have wasted little time in moving on high-priority legislative goals that those remaining Democratic bulwarks had blocked.
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Robert Mueller and his special counsel team are the vital bulwarks of American democracy under attack from Russian aggression.
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Recently, the International Monetary Fund and other institutional bulwarks of the postwar order have mounted a defense of globalization.
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The Reagan administration supported military governments in El Salvador and Guatemala, viewing them as bulwarks against pro-Communist insurgencies.
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Burke saw them as the embodiment of collective wisdom and the bulwarks of civilisation, standing between decency and anarchy.
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Ryan and McConnell are the bulwarks protecting Trump from a wide range of areas where he should be held accountable.
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Without robust norms, constitutional checks and balances do not serve as the bulwarks of democracy we imagine them to be.
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Rosenstein's status is important because his position makes him one of the bulwarks protecting the Mueller investigation from presidential interference.
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The ambush last month also took the life of one of the nation's most important bulwarks against the Taliban: Gen.
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Dozens of experts have pointed out that liberal democratic institutions need constant attention and reinforcement in order to be effective bulwarks.
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Such pressure could also influence who Khamenei appoints as head of the judiciary, one of the main bulwarks of conservative power.
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"Our courts today worked as they should as bulwarks against government abuse or unconstitutional policies and orders," the ACLU also tweeted.
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Cooker, standing at the bow with the caving ladder hooked to a pole, was raising that pole toward the freighter's bulwarks.
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The Freedom of Information Act, one of the underrated bulwarks of self-government, has become largely a mirage in recent decades.
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In the book, you argue that establishment parties are "bulwarks" of democracy and when they start to break down, democracies die.
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The result is that Trump's policy agenda is on a collision course with one of the bulwarks of his political support.
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Vital bulwarks really do remain that prevent politicians from engaging in some kinds of fundraising — at least for the time being.
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Mustachioed generals hunkered down in presidential palaces, while the U.S. government backed dictators and military juntas it believed were bulwarks against communism.
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Mr. Pence hewed on Wednesday to a more traditional American view of NATO and the European Union as bulwarks of Western democracy.
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Pictures posted by social media users showed waves crashing against bulwarks, felled trees and signage, and some minor damage to electricity poles.
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Parties were traditionally bulwarks against demagogues rising in American politics — they were controlled by gatekeepers who acted as checks against charismatic demagogues.
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Other camera makers like Olympus and Konica Minolta have similar B2B bulwarks, allowing them to continue their camera businesses almost as a hobby.
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Right-wing presidents in Colombia, Guatemala and Brazil have responded to rising crime by holding up their militaries as bulwarks of virtue and safety.
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With destabilization of regional bulwarks after the Arab Spring -- Iraq, Syria and Yemen -- Iran positioned itself as an Islamic heavyweight not to be ignored.
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In Republican-leaning districts that include diverse populations or abut cities that do — from bulwarks of Sunbelt conservatism like Houston and Orange County, Calif.
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The region's dense coastal mangrove forests help absorb destructive tides, but these seaside bulwarks are being chipped away by development and unscrupulous firewood collection.
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A disenfranchised public left with little faith in news media, political leadership or economic security, bulwarks against extremism, ensures political volatility for years to come.
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If Mr. Trump pursues hard-right policies in the White House, Mr. Cuomo could find himself one of a handful of liberal bulwarks against Washington.
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The only question now is how big the wave will grow -- and whether Republicans desperately trying to build bulwarks against the onrushing water can succeed.
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Support for guaranteed incomes is something of a fad in Silicon Valley, where many techies see them as bulwarks against unemployment caused by future technological advances.
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Merkel is widely seen as a champion of European liberal values and inclusiveness, one of the major bulwarks against the far-right tide on the continent.
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The growing divide between Mr. Trump and myriad bulwarks of the conservative Republican Party comes as the party races toward its convention in Cleveland next week.
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Indeed, active religiosity is (relatively speaking) one of the bulwarks against Trumpism, and his coalition is strongest among the most secular Republicans, not the most religious.
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This difficult moment demands the restoration of the proper place of the Department of Justice and the F.B.I. as bulwarks of law and order in America.
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It would also help conserve some of the most valuable bulwarks against climate change, like tropical rainforests that soak up and store vast quantities of carbon.
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Make no mistake: this walking cartoon is one of the last bulwarks against the ever-looming homogenization of monochrome Berlin techno and the culture club in general.
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Systems with elements of proportional representation, such as that sought by reformers of the electoral college or House districts, not only provide bulwarks against charges of illegitimacy.
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Political parties, and political party primaries, were traditionally bulwarks against demagogues rising in American politics — they were controlled by gatekeepers who acted as checks against charismatic demagogues.
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Congressional Republicans like Paul Ryan began to pitch themselves to supporters as bulwarks against a likely president Clinton—not as supporters of a supposedly doomed candidate Trump.
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Elite universities have postured themselves as bulwarks against the Trump administration's reactionary agenda, rightfully coming out in full force against the travel ban and changes to DACA.
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As the news environment fragmented, and lawmakers found themselves under attack for supporting a nationalized "Washington" agenda, the normal bulwarks of protection – the political parties, congressional leaders etc.
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"This difficult moment demands the restoration of the proper place of the Department of Justice and the F.B.I. as bulwarks of law and order in America," Webster wrote.
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"We are counting on brokers and funding portals to be bulwarks of investor protection in this space," Mary Jo White, chairwoman of the S.E.C., said in a recent speech.
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Bill Haslam of Tennessee, an old-guard Republican who heads the Republican Governors Association, pointing to Democratic incursions into localities like Cobb County, Ga., that were once conservative bulwarks.
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Brown and California Democratic leaders have already set themselves up as bulwarks against Trump's administration, and the next governor is likely to be seen as a potential presidential candidate.
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A cinderblock military base, which will serve as a training camp and recruitment center for a local Christian militia, is the among the newest anti-ISIS bulwarks dotting the landscape.
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"Finally, I think it's important to recognize, especially this season, that higher education, education in general, are one of the bulwarks of a functioning civil society and our diverse democracy."
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Bolsonaro's comments are likely to enrage critics, who have become increasingly concerned by his administration's attitudes toward the Amazon rainforest, one of the world's most important bulwarks against climate change.
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His ultimate goal won't be "economic populism" but the fracturing and weakening of ideals and political norms that have served as bulwarks against white supremacy and other forms of illiberalism.
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In Jordan and Lebanon, the administration's Jerusalem decision and its cuts in refugee and Palestinian aid have been body blows to governments seen as bulwarks against the region's metastasizing chaos.
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The 2015 migrant crisis, for example, was partly the result of a single short-lived break in Libya, one of Europe's most reliable bulwarks against migrants until its government collapsed.
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The 2015 migrant crisis, for example, was partly the result of a single short-lived break in Libya, one of Europe's most reliable bulwarks against migrants until its government collapsed.
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After eight years of advocacy on behalf of the Obama agenda, they are racing to recast themselves as bulwarks against Mr. Trump's expected assault on an array of Democratic policies.
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It just might be that the judiciary, Congress, and the media will respond to Trump's constitutional challenges by operating, however imperfectly, the way were intended to operate: as bulwarks against autocracy.
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Growers have been among Mr. Denham's core supporters, but Trump policies on immigration and trade have hurt the walnut and almond growers and dairies that are bulwarks of the local economy.
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They wanted, as Cohen writes, to get rid of "dated stores, modest personal services, and cheap luncheonettes," and attract solid bulwarks of secure retailing, like Sears, Roebuck and Company and Macy's.
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Labour has printed reams of them showing how it cut into the Conservatives' lead in the 2017 election, capitalizing on the same shifts that have turned American cities into progressive bulwarks.
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Mr Trump and close aides concede that it was once shrewd public policy to help war-ravaged nations, from Europe to Japan, rebuild and prosper as allies, markets and bulwarks against communism.
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But it is one of the last remaining bulwarks for working-class New York, with healthy hostility for the preening moneyed classes and all the bullshitters, rascals, thieves, landlords and gonif politicians.
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Fresh off a resounding independence referendum victory, the Kurdish people are resolute in moving to secure their rights, having proven themselves bulwarks of freedom -- and against terrorism -- in a gravely troubled region.
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At a time when Mr. Trump is vowing to restrict immigration and trade, and also reduce support for NATO and other international organizations that have been bulwarks of American foreign policy, Mrs.
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Green is seen as one of the most important bulwarks to Google's advertising dominance — but as Lauren reported, The Trade Desk's growing size is making it a lightning rod for criticism itself.
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That policy has taken a bloody turn with the repeated bombing of Syrian and Iraqi Kurds--both of whom have been anti-ISIS bulwarks--and, since July 85033, escalating crackdowns at home.
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The CIA, the FBI, and the Justice Department, once revered by conservatives as bulwarks of American power, are now viewed, absurdly, as hotbeds of vicious liberalism, by a significant minority of voters.
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If he wins the second round he would become a standout, elected Sunni Islamist president in North Africa and the Middle East, where many longtime rulers style themselves as bulwarks against radical Islamism.
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A gain driven by strong earnings reports from bulwarks like Goldman Sachs and Johnson & Johnson pushed the market, which had lost 22016,225 points in the previous eight trading days, up nearly 600 points.
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It also speaks to a broader trend in the Christian Orthodox world, where many churches see themselves as bulwarks against Western influence even as their governments want to draw closer to the West.
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Nintendo had erected a proverbial dam to contain the flow of potentially offensive religious concepts from entering the U.S., but ActRaiser's literal interpretation of the god-sim genre burst through those flimsy bulwarks.
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Imposing yet gleeful, they stand sentry on the parquet de Versailles, adjacent to chairs and tables of Zana's own design, bulwarks of early Pop radicalism amid the haute-bourgeois sage-painted boiserie walls.
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Emissions from the fires were contributing to global warming, it was feared, and the harvesting of wood for cooking was helping to diminish forests, one of nature's carbon-absorbing bulwarks against greenhouse gases.
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Western governments and armies have started to focus less on Mali and Nigeria and more on Niger and Burkina Faso, hoping that these countries can act as bulwarks to halt the spread of jihadism.
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FOR decades, South-East Asia has had two lucky bulwarks against militant Islam: the peaceful, tolerant form of their faith practised by most South-East Asian Muslims; and the relative incompetence of local jihadists.
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These shifts present problems for the Republican Party—which has historically relied on the suburbs as bulwarks against blue cities—and opportunities for Democrats, as evidenced most recently by the gubernatorial election in Virginia.
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The publications Ming Pao and the Hong Kong Economic Journal, once bulwarks of independent journalism, have adopted a much more pro-China stance in recent years, dismissing journalists and editors who sounded critical views.
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RIGA (Reuters) - Latvians are set to vote on Saturday in parliamentary elections in which the rise of an anti-establishment party will test Riga's long-standing role as one of West's bulwarks against Russia.
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The attack has rendered Chancellor Angela Merkel, the prime defender of the European Union and one of the bloc's last bulwarks against right-wing populism, even more vulnerable as national elections approach in 2017.
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Tillerson, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, Chief of Staff John Kelly, White House Economic Council Director Gary Cohn — these were the bulwarks between America and Trump's tweets becoming law.
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Two other bulwarks of the economy are also starting to look a bit shaky, with exports expected to succumb to the cumulative weight of U.S. tariffs and the property sector losing a step from July.
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MANILA — A slate of candidates opposed to President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines is waging an uphill battle in elections set for Monday for the Senate, one of the last bulwarks against his strongman rule.
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Others believe constituents will dismiss the allegations as untrue — or deem them unimportant at a time when state legislatures could play crucial roles either in advancing the Trump administration's agenda or forming bulwarks against it.
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Even as Randazza argues his clients' cases on First Amendment grounds, he may well be harming the popular sentiment around free speech that is one of the only bulwarks against platforms unilaterally censoring all they want.
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Presented without evidence and disputed by environmental and climate experts, Bolsonaro's comments enraged critics and fanned a growing social media campaign over the dangers to the Amazon, one of the world's key bulwarks against climate change.
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In a sense, the birth of the Africa Cup of Nations mirrored Africa's struggle for autonomy, in that the few independent bulwarks of the continent were forced to fight for recognition from European powers that be.
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Even worse, all the usual bulwarks, like the Packers' legendary home-field advantage, have crumbled: One giant hole didn't sink the Titanic, it was a series of small punctures across too many of the hull's sections.
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The postwar boom that had enabled the ambitious Great Society programs of the 1960s was over, and so too was the full-throated commitment to progressive bulwarks and principles, to labor unions and an activist government.
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A gung-ho national guard unit in the Pacific Northwest, licking its wounds from a disastrous deployment in Europe, finds itself one of the last bulwarks against Soviet occupation in a full-scale version of Red Dawn.
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He's invaded living rooms across the globe with his live-streamed Boiler Room sets, and seduced the heads by linking up with the Fade to Mind label and GHE20G0TH1K party—both bulwarks of the experimental avant-garde.
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The Senate is seen as one of the last bulwarks against his increasingly authoritarian rule, but with the opposition struggling, his foes fear that Monday's voting will help him consolidate his power and push through his agenda.
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The SNB kept its negative interest rates on hold and said it remained ready to intervene in the currency markets where necessary, the two bulwarks of its expansive policy over the past two and a half years.
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But with the election of Mr Trump, whose party controls both houses of Congress and who plans to appoint conservatives to the Supreme Court, it is Democrats who find themselves turning to the states as bulwarks of resistance.
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Activists hail radical leaders such as Evo Morales in Bolivia as bulwarks against neoliberalism and decry any attempt to rein in the government of Venezuela, whose economy has collapsed as its left-wing leaders have turned to autocracy.
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News that the company is encouraging people to design for all devices at once is really an encouragement to get lazy around design, and will ultimately undermine one of Apple's key bulwarks against competition from Microsoft and Google.
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Trump is also now surrounded by fewer top advisers who served as bulwarks against some of his impulses, such as Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and White House chief of staff John Kelly, who left the administration in December.
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Yet the fact that two albums by one of the biggest stars in the world were available on Spotify and Apple — two giant online outlets long seen by the music industry as bulwarks against piracy — is largely unheard-of.
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Powerful computers, sophisticated mapping software and terabytes of voter, census and consumer data -- alongside growing polarization -- make it possible to draw surgical district lines that provide sturdy bulwarks against electoral waves and maximize partisan advantage across an entire state.
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Prior to the 1980s, it was quite common for Republicans to be social liberals: Respectable Republican women like Betty Ford and Barbara Bush were bulwarks of Planned Parenthood (founded by Margaret Sanger, who herself became a Republican late in life).
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The more seriously you take the thought that authoritative institutions, such as the Supreme Court and its constitutional rulings, are important bulwarks against destructive disorder and ever-worse abuses of power, the more this conservative style of liberalism makes sense.
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Beijing's assault on U.S. military technology also includes such bulwarks of American defense as the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, the V-22 Osprey aircraft, the F/A-18 aircraft, the Global Hawk surveillance drone, and the C-85033 transport aircraft.
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It is alarming to witness a president of the United States, who often praises foreign dictators who abuse human rights, acting like those dictators by launching aggressive and hostile attacks on news organizations that are bulwarks of the free press.
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Given the country's history of tight elections and coalition governments in the three national polls since Mr. Hussein's ouster in 2003, Mr. Abadi needs an alliance with at least one of three major bulwarks of Shiite political power to win, analysts say.
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Mr. Cuomo and Mr. de Blasio, both Democrats, have sought to walk a line between opposition to and conciliation with Mr. Trump, a Republican, aiming to find areas of agreement with the next president even as they position themselves, separately, as bulwarks against his administration.
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Both media properties have the protection of their owners — a family, in the case of The Times; and a billionaire, in the case of The Post — who are bulwarks against the blind market forces that would have them turn into clickbait-only versions of themselves.
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The United States and our partners in Europe have an important role to play in supporting the efforts of Ukrainian reformers to establish key institutional bulwarks against corruption, such an independent anti-corruption court, and to strengthen existing bodies like the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine.
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Ever since William Buckley's own reputation-making assault on the bulwarks of liberal university life, God and Man at Yale, was published nearly seventy years ago, the American right has loudly complained about their cultural marginalization at the hands of a privileged and perverse anti-American elite.
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Ms. Stein proposes to slash military spending in half and close every United States military base on foreign soil — some 700, including bases used in the war on terrorism, as bulwarks against Russian and Chinese aggression and as staging areas for humanitarian assistance to victims of war and disaster.
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" Quoting Number 78 of the Federalist Papers, Justice Thomas lectured his colleagues: "The Framers gave us lifetime tenure to promote 'that independent spirit in the judges which must be essential to the faithful performance' of the courts' role as 'bulwarks of a limited Constitution,' unaffected by fleeting 'mischiefs.
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Opponents of educational choice tend to frame these provisions as bulwarks of the oft-misunderstood concept of "separation of church and state," but legal precedent clarifies that the First Amendment actually calls for government neutrality toward different religions and toward religion in general rather than absolute separation from all religion.
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Propelled by an unusually high turnout that illustrated the intensity of the backlash against Mr. Trump, Democrats claimed at least 26 House seats on the strength of their support in suburban and metropolitan districts that were once bulwarks of Republican power but where voters have recoiled from the president's demagoguery on race.
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John Boehner, then the speaker, and Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, were not shy about checking the power of Barack Obama, just as Nancy Pelosi, the speaker in that era, and Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, set themselves up as bulwarks against George W. Bush at his nadir.
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As Washington insiders continue to pore over the voluminous report on Russian interference in the 2628 election, it is important to recall how misguided leadership at the Justice Department and the FBI over the past few years has already allowed these bulwarks of democratic governance to be covered in the mud of a hyper partisan political scrum.
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As political historians and presidential scholars, the people at the Miller Center are particularly well placed to observe that the Trump administration represents a significant rupture in American politics, a break with the general tenets and bulwarks of modern liberal democracy: equal representation, protection of minority voices, respect for the rule of law, a free press and free inquiry.
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In his post that inspired this response, Rodney wrote, [Th]ere is evidence that people are becoming less inclined to visit museums and galleries, and for those of us (like me) who are invested in these institutions as one of the key bulwarks against the encroaching colonization of civic space and engagement by the relentless commodification of experience, this is dispiriting news.
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The current Republican advantage, in this argument, is wide but shallow: It depends on a backlash that will weaken as the voters driving it gradually age and die, it relies on countermajoritarian bulwarks that savvy Democrats can dismantle, it's based on an antique policy agenda that has no appeal to rising cohorts, and it's now linked to an unpopular and erratic president who poisons everything he touches.
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The crest of this wave -- the battle over a nation's ability to choose who will be able to settle within its borders -- is also sweeping across traditional democracies as never before, with newly elected governments in such longstanding bulwarks of freedom as Germany and Italy suddenly poised on the brink of resistance to a continuing influx of immigrants, largely from the Middle East and Africa.
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