The oceans have long buffered the effects of climate change by absorbing a substantial portion of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.
The government produced failure and insecurity, and crack buffered the results (and proved a boon to a burgeoning prison-industrial complex).
PAGE A12 RISING ACIDITY THREATENS OCEANS The oceans have long buffered the effects of climate change by absorbing a substantial portion of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.
(To emphasize that moral disapproval, the authors of the report protectively buffered the word "marriage" in quotation marks whenever it followed the word "homosexual").
Increased aid to the states temporarily buffered the impact of state and local budget cuts.
In their book, "City in the Sky: The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center" (2003), James Glanz and Eric Lipton, reporters for The New York Times, suggested that the devices not only buffered the effects of wind but might have also saved lives on Sept. 11, 2001, when hijacked airplanes were flown into the towers.
And both were let to fall apart when the cordon sanitaire that buffered the rest of Europe from the Soviet Union lost its geopolitical usefulness to the West.
Wayne Nish, the chef and owner of March, and his architect, John Kinnear, have buffered the shock of the new by laying down the Persian carpets from the old March and hanging the French tapestry that once was in the rear dining room.
Instead of concrete barrier defenses, the teams are aiming at ecological solutions and "soft infrastructure": artful piers and parks, adaptive chains of new wetlands and giant oyster beds like those that once buffered the New World.
The positive economic news appears to have buffered the president in Virginia, Wisconsin and Colorado from the substantial improvement in Mr. Romney's national poll numbers over the past week.
In those two locations, former slaves began, under the sometimes-enthusiastic, sometimes-wary eye of Northerners, vast experiments in free labor, experiments that endured because the same rough waters that once buffered the Confederacy now sheltered its former slaves.
