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  • Capable of withstanding powerful blasts and inclement weather, the Bastions can be built quickly anywhere.

    Millionaire owner of Segway, philanthropist T. Rees Shapiro 2010

  • Capable of withstanding powerful blasts and inclement weather, the Bastions can be built quickly anywhere.

    Segway company owner Jimi Heselden dies at 62 T. Rees Shapiro 2010

  • Such data led to orders from Nato in former Yugoslavia, where more than 38 miles of Bastions were installed; flood defence teams in New Orleans; and £53m in contracts with the Pentagon between 1998 and 2003.

    Jimi Heselden obituary Martin Wainwright 2010

  • Bastions jutted out every fifty paces, allowing archers to loose arrows on attackers.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • Nestled between the Parc Bastions and the Parc de Malagnou, Rue Bellot is the most exclusive residential street in the Quartier de la Cité, on the left bank of the river Rhone.

    Bollinger Boulevards Tara Loader Wilkinson 2011

  • Two men and a bulldozer can fill a section of Bastions in 20 minutes, compared with the seven hours it would take 10 men to fill the equivalent 1,500 sandbags.

    Jimi Heselden obituary Martin Wainwright 2010

  • None of these areas are known Bastions of the GOP.

    West Virginian Democrats shocked at War on Coal. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

  • Bastions jutted out every fifty paces, allowing archers to loose arrows on attackers.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • Second and third on the list were "Military Bastions" and "Tractor Country."

    Where Tea Partiers Live 2010

  • In my own profession, isolated researchers have benefitted greatly from technological advances and our journals show an increasing flow of work from outside the traditional East Coast Bastions.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

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