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If the court were to rule the law unconstitutional when it issues its decision in June, it could prove a significant blow to Obama's re-election campaign by striking down his most important piece of legislation and bolstering conservative opposition.
It's possible, in fact, that the crisis, instead of eroding the reputational advantages of the big banks, ended up bolstering them.
Far from bolstering stability, Saudi policy actively works against western attempts to end the standoff with non-Arab Iran – still the natural regional partner for London and Washington that it was before the 1979 revolution.
Jacqueline Pata, executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, said the tribes have tried to assuage Congressional misgivings, expanding financing and capacity, bolstering indigent legal representation, and changing rules to ensure that non-Indian defendants would face a jury of their peers, Indian and non-Indian alike.
A judgment that the declaration of independence was legal would also have an impact on the wider international stage, bolstering demands for recognition by territories as diverse as Northern Cyprus, Somaliland, Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Transnistria.
When Sir Robert Walpole was hoovering up practically every old master that came on the market in the mid-18th century, it wasn't only about bolstering his political clout (well beyond his means, which is why Catherine the Great was able to get almost the whole lot for the Hermitage a generation later).
As Lord (Bill Morris) of Handsworth, chair of Midland Heart and former secretary-general of the TUC, has observed: "One of the great successes of black people in the housing field since the 1980s has been the creation of black-led housing associations, which emerged from BME communities and remain today more sensitive to a diverse population whilst bolstering local pride".
Editors eventually settled on Kitchenware, the revitalised Eighties independent (and longtime home to Prefab Sprout), bolstering the current renaissance in British boutique labels.
The cosmic irony would be that a series of harsh budgetary measures, which Fianna Fail advocated and lost power because of, could end up bolstering the reputation of the two parties who are going to take power in just over three months time.
The move is also seen as bolstering Turkish forces along the Iraqi border.
China has urged Apec member states to speed up free trade talks to spur growth, in a move widely seen as bolstering output in the world's most populous country and acting as a bulwark against US foreign policy in the region.
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Bolstering functions primarily as a verb form (present participle or gerund) used to describe the act of strengthening or supporting something. Ludwig indicates its correct usage in various contexts. For example, "bolstering conservative opposition" or "bolstering the banking system".
Expression frequency: Very common
