Sentences with 'bulwark'
Example sentences and phrases with the word bulwark and other words derived from it.
• « In 1922, the weak King of Italy, Vittorio Emanuele III, appointed Mussolini as Prime Minister, seeing in him a bulwark against the threat of communism (and bowing to the growing strength of the Fascist Party). »
• « However, while the US saw Vietnam as a crucial bulwark against the spread of communism and, as a result, waged a full-scale war, the USSR remained circumspect, focusing on maintaining power and control in the Eastern bloc and avoiding direct military engagement in Vietnam. »
• « This development caused considerable consternation to hard-line communist leaders in countries like East Germany, where the threat of Soviet intervention had always been the bulwark against the threat of reform. »