buttressing

How To Use buttressing In A Sentence

• Still, the Giants did fill a huge need by buttressing what were largely woeful special teams units with a lot of speed. Giants' Class Helps Solidify Special Teams
• But cadastral surveys, by carving the land up into unnaturally straight-edged blocks (first on paper and then, where possible, in the soil itself), assigning (or denying) rights to it in terms of commercial ownership, and buttressing the lines on these maps with the power of state-sanctioned law, sought to transform and appropriate not only control over territorial organization but the land itselfand thus the foundation of Africans 'social organization and culture. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
• What's really kind of buttressing your gross margin line there in Q1? SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
• The top of the peak has a slightly slanting surface of perhaps twenty square yards, very irregular in outline; -- southwardly the morne pitches sheer into a frightful chasm, between the converging of two of those long corrugated ridges already described as buttressing the volcano on all sides. Two Years in the French West Indies
• While pundits continue to dwell on the supposedly collapsing poll numbers for Palin and trumpet the erosion of her presidential ambitions, the former Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee was abroad, buttressing the one area seen as a major weakness in Palin's ability to project herself as a national political leader, foreign policy. Sheldon Filger: Palin Scores on the World Stage, Does India and Israel in One Stride
• And I am confident that big bookstore chains like Barnes and Noble are vigorously buttressing themselves against the onslaught of challenges to their retail model now being leveled at them by the rise of the e-book. John Shore: Love Loses: Barnes and Noble's Big Fat Bell Book Fail
• We regard Article 10 as reinforcing and buttressing the conclusions we have reached and set out above.
• It reformed the judicial system, buttressing its independence, and introduced parliamentary scrutiny of important public sector contracts and appointments.
• It reformed the judicial system, buttressing its independence, and introduced parliamentary scrutiny of important public sector contracts and appointments.
• I see the two books, metaphorically speaking, as two sides of a gothic arch, each side buttressing the other. Weblogs