The phrase "as a buttress" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that provides support or reinforcement, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The new policy was introduced as a buttress to the existing regulations, ensuring greater compliance among businesses."
Alternatives: "as a support" or "as a reinforcement".
Mr Reagan supported his religious right wing, at least in theory, but as a buttress, from the outside.
By the Tang Dynasty (618-906), Taoism was found so useful as a buttress to political legitimacy that Laozi was adopted as the ruling family's divine ancestor.
So, though the definition of anthropomorphism has changed, its role as a buttress supporting the intellectual establishment's fondest superstitions has remained the same".
This was his first major public commission, and the work, which was not actually finished until 1617, involved recasing a vast hall with a two-story arcade of white stone to serve as a buttress to the old structure.
I was in India last week, a Commonwealth nation not known for repression of its vibrant press, but its media are clearly worried by Leveson and asking questions: should India legislate or should the media improve their self-regulation, both as a sign of commitment to ethical journalism and also as a buttress against tighter state control?
While there may exist modern forms of entertainment that support Plato's view (e.g. soap operas, which purport to show us real life and instead just serve as a buttress between us and the lives we could be living), I am on a personal crusade to use theatre as a vehicle for getting to the very nub of reality.
Kloen et al. [ 9] recommended plating on the anterior-inferior side because it functioned as an inferior buttress, especially under the lateral osteopenic bone, allowing the better medial fixation to support the construct without the risk of screw pullout of the lateral fragment.
A crucial point was that the outward thrust of the ribbed ceiling vaults was carried across the outside walls of the nave, first to an attached outer buttress and then to a freestanding pier by means of a half arch known as a flying buttress.
Thousands of pious, peaceful Muslims are also locked up.Yet the West is usually silent about Uzbekistan's abuses, seeing Mr Karimov as a useful buttress against Islamist terror on Afghanistan's northern border.
The results show that the Chonta Fault, a median pre-folding basin normal fault, was inverted and acted as a mechanical buttress during initial east-vergent contraction of the fold-thrust belt.
The reasons for the inheritance are seen in the mosaic-type Paleozoic basement SW of the Teisseyre-Tornquist Zone, contrasting the Precambrian East European Craton which acted as a stable buttress in the NE.
