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"The hijab is the first bastion of Iranian women's Islamic identity. If this bastion collapses, other cultural and heritage elements will gradually collapse in turn," the ultraconservative Kayhan daily warned on Thursday.

The school has long been known as a progressive bastion.

Taking away congressional representation from the party’s last remaining conservative bastions leaves the party even less relevant, he said.

Aid became a bastion of paternalism or, as some came to see it, neocolonialism.

And Virginia, New Jersey, California and New York City are Democratic bastions, shaded navy to midnight blue on election maps.