Meanings of last bastions in English

Lanre's allies had brought about the ruin of the last bastions of the empire.

Syfy's Saturday movies continue to be one of the last bastions of regularly produced made-for-TV movies.

The last bastions are being strangled by censorship.

But even in one of the last bastions of counterinsurgency in Afghanistan, the dangers remain very real.

The CME's closures will leave the London Metal Exchange as one of the last bastions of open-outcry trading.

The LME, one of the last bastions of open-outcry trading, has traditionally kept fees low for its member-owners.

In a country where much media is state-run, the Internet is one of the last bastions of free speech.

Another option is a community bank, particularly a credit union, which are among the last bastions of free checking accounts.

With the building societies rapidly turning themselves into banks, the credit union remains one of the last bastions of mutuality.

Now the internet company plans to take on one of the last bastions of the unknown: the depths of the ocean.

Optus has been working hard to improve its reach in rural areas, one of the last bastions of the Telstra stranglehold.

Bani Walid was one of the last bastions for Gaddafi's fighters - generating some of the suspicions about its current loyalties.

Viacom has a slew of new programs designed to attract one of the last bastions of the TV-viewing American population: old people.

Grain traders, merchants and analysts see an unprecedented threat to the viability of one of the world's last bastions of shout-and-gesture trading.

So the banks could have an interest in scuppering a sale of the 130-year-old exchange, one of the last bastions of open outcry trade.

Thirty years on from the Scarman report, the Lib Dem parliamentary party seems to be one of the last bastions of a monochrome enclave.