Rosa Parks is a great example of a bastion for desegregation.
The soldiers hid behind the bastion, hoping to avoid any of the arrows coming towards them.
Reality TV is & should remain the last bastion of the desperate.
The term "cavalier" has been adopted from the French as a term in fortification for a work of great command constructed in the interior of a fort, bastion or other defence, so as to fire over the main parapet without interfering with the fire of the latter.
The temple was still standing in 1676; some eight years later it was demolished by the Turks, and its stones built into a bastion; on the removal of the bastion in 1835 the temple was successfully reconstructed by Ross with the employment of little new material.