Sentence examples for buttress expectations from inspiring English sources

Academics have concluded that Japan's quantitative easing had little benefit except to buttress expectations that its policy rate would be zero for a long time.

And this monetary response, if it is to buttress expectations and confidence, needs I think to be delivered promptly as well as muscularly.

Those expectations have been buttressed by the announcement that the Pentagon intends to start building missile silos at a test site south of Fairbanks, Alaska, as early as next April, or roughly six months after the Texas meeting.

HONG KONG — Signs that the Chinese economy is sputtering mounted Friday, in the form of dismally feeble trade data that fanned expectations that Beijing would soon step up its efforts to buttress growth before a key leadership transition this autumn.

That belief that outside factors have marred the perfect operation of the market machine has been buttressed by some adherents of behavioral economics (which ironically helped undermine rational expectations in the first place) who replace predetermined market relations with predetermined psychological factors.

THOSE responses buttress other reports of a new era in boardrooms, as directors try to live up to the raised expectations of shareholders, regulators and lawmakers.

Religion is one buttress.

Even after the surprising departure of Jeremy Lin, expectations – piqued by the team's first playoff victory in a dozen years against the eventual champ, Miami, and buttressed by an aging and expensive roster – will be rafter-banner high.

On Monday, Oscar Pistorius returned to court to buttress his charge that this was a country so ravaged by crime that he had to arm himself to the teeth in expectation of murderous burglars.

Grass, weedy pavement, brambles, buttress, sky.

The former must buttress the latter.