Sentence examples for bolstering itself from inspiring English sources

Didn't the second world war quash forever the idea that a European country could be deemed successful by bolstering itself with land grabs or by ethnic discrimination?In fact, a pollster using crafty questions might well find that people in Europe's south-eastern corner, not all them Serb nationalists, are still ambivalent on such matters.

While an apparent attempt by the coalition to reinvigorate and bolster itself, the move could just as easily embroil and distract it and bleed the government of energy, some warned.

Partially to bolster itself against this eventuality, in January, Gawker sold a minority stake to Columbus Nova Technology Partners, an investment fund with deep pockets and several billion dollars in assets.

The funding should also help TransferWise bolster itself against heavy competition.

So — for example — a turnover tax on digital companies could be one way for the EU as a region to bolster itself against the risk of the UK accelerating the problem of profit shifting if it ends up seeking to operate a low tax regime right off the EU's shore.

However, it looks like that acquisition is not to boost Salesforce's design practice, but to bolster Quip itself, by developing more productivity apps.

Beyond the vote buying, the attorney general's accusation described an effort to transfer money to the Workers Party itself, bolstering the party's ambitions of expanding its power.

A recent internal report argued that it should quickly involve itself in bolstering the government in NWFP and the tribal areas, to avert grave instability.

Killing Georgian soldiers is one thing for Russia; killing officials from EU and NATO countries is another.Georgia should change tooMeanwhile Georgia could help itself by bolstering its democratic credentials.

The Ethiopian government has promised to "refine" its land law to encourage long-term leases and strengthen the enforcement of commercial farm contracts; Malawi and Ghana have agreed to set aside thousands of hectares for commercial investment and Tanzania has committed itself to bolstering private investment in seeds.

What is revolutionary about argumentative theory is that it presumes that since reason has a different purpose — to win over an opposing group — flawed reasoning is an adaptation in itself, useful for bolstering debating skills.