None easily fit the impression of liberally minded immigrant attracting bastions from only a decade ago.
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LEAs, traditional bastions of bureaucratic left-wing power, giving schools more freedom to manage their own affairs.
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Even the on-grid places here like to think of themselves as remote bastions.
Other blue bastions have been shedding jobs as well, both during the recession and over the whole decade.
But even in Europe's most socialised bastions, hospices tend to be privately or charitably funded, at least in part.
"Years ago, the grandest hotels were bastions of culture, representing whatever was happening artistically in that city, " says Frolich.
Yet some supposedly Friedmanite bastions went wobbly, with Britain scoring 43% and Friedman's own homeland, the United States, 56%.
As advertisers, we need not stand still to learn from these long-standing bastions.
Tucked away on winding, oak tree-lined roads or in one-traffic-light towns, bastions of smoked brisket have lured the palates of many discerning carnivores.
Neither, the reasoning went, is especially popular in these two conservative bastions.
Have you heard any vociferous rebuttals from established bastions of scientific authority?
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Traditional bastions of progressive strength, such as unions, are on the defensive.
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Increasingly these places boast the amenities to compete with the bastions of hipness in everything from medicine and banking to technology and movies.
Innovation comes from myriad sources, including the bastions of East Coast learning, but Stanford has established itself as the intellectual nexus of the information economy.
But Dell's risk is that the march grinds to a halt as it approaches the proprietary bastions of storage, mainframe computers, switches and networking equipment.
Third, Mr Sarkozy is ready to confront France's bastions of conservatism.
What's amazing is the fact that America's stock exchanges--supposed bastions of vibrant capitalism--are now so risk-averse, the opposite of the anything-goes attitude of the late 1990s.
But Dell's risk is that the march will grind to a halt as it approaches the proprietary bastions of storage, mainframe computers, switches and networking equipment.
The fire service is one of the few almost exclusively male, white bastions (just 1% of firefighters are women and 1.5% black or brown) still available.
But when Javier Pastore shook the very foundations of one of Europe's greatest bastions, a cloud began to descend upon manager Tito Vilanova and his ailing players.
So claims by those who supported the policies that led to record deficits that they are the bastions of fiscal conservatism do not meet the laugh test.
Yet increasingly, it appears that red states in the interior and the south may actually have more to gain from liberalized immigration than many blue state bastions.
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Their curricula are rigidly laid down by state governments, and schools are among the last bastions of union influence in Australia: headteachers have few powers of discipline.
Formerly bastions of intellectual freedom in a world of Babbitry, formerly the locus of sexual freedom and experimentation, they now became the most restrictive environments in modern society.
As opposed to gentry politics, whose bastions lay in fashionable urban districts and college towns, Truman-style democracy reached into the vast suburban dreamscape--even into small towns and rural areas.
Yet, even in these bastions, there are at least some signs that the diehards are losing stomach for a fight that it is not in their interests to win.
Christie's, Sotheby's and other bastions of the traditional art establishment have been trying for years to attract these nouveau buyers-young, self-made and thoroughly unimpressed by titled pedigrees and plummy accents.
She won her retention election to the California State Supreme Court easily in 1998, having been endorsed by the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, hardly conservative bastions.
But why is it that soccer, which has waged a largely successfully battle against racism and sexism in western Europe, remains one of the few bastions of homophobia in sport?
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