Among intellectuals and students, the no votes reflected mounting discontent with the Leningrad party's reputation as a conservative bastion.

And when he went to the conservative bastion of South Carolina, he started openly welcoming Democrats.

As we know the catholic church was one of the main conservative bastions in most other countries of the time.

Even conservative bastions such as the fifth and the fifteenth, plush areas south of the Seine, are vulnerable to the red assault.

However, under Scripps Howard the paper moved steadily to the right, eventually becoming a conservative bastion.

He also has made surprising inroads this year among some of the west valley's conservative Republican bastions.

For a generation, Republicans began most Presidential campaigns with the comforting knowledge that the South and much of the West were conservative bastions.

Asalah is most popular in the conservative bastions of Muharraq and Riffa.

The military-industrial complex in particular remains a conservative bastion.

In 1970, it was a white, conservative bastion.