Sentence examples for buttress itself from inspiring English sources

Each time, the city rebuilt, using more concrete to buttress itself against the wind.

Mr. Sridhar said Japan would be able to better buttress itself against natural calamities by replacing centralized power generation with local fuel cells.

Possibly in an attempt to buttress itself against the day the oil runs out, the city is building a museum complex called Saadiyat Island, which will feature branches of not just the Guggenheim (again) but the Louvre as well.

Looking at China, this view of the United States as trying to contain China and this resurgent nationalism, it all grows out of how the Communist Party talks about Chinese history, talks about the Century of Humiliation [1839 1949], and its need to buttress itself in the face of abandoning communism in all but name and deal with intensifying tension within China.

Looking at China, this view of the United States as trying to contain China and this resurgent nationalism, it all grows out of how the Communist Party talks about Chinese history, talks about the Century of Humiliation [1839-1949], and its need to buttress itself in the face of abandoning communism in all but name and deal with intensifying tension within China.

With the release of "Recording Black Culture," an album consisting largely of newly unearthed acetates made by one of the collectors, John Work III, we now have the music itself to buttress this claim.

The S.E.C. chairwoman, Mary L. Schapiro, said the agency had been revamping itself, buttressing enforcement efforts and taking initiatives to protect investors in the wake of both the financial crisis and the Madoff fraud.

The goal would be to buttress the opposition's efforts to present itself as a viable alternative to Syria's embattled president, Bashar al-Assad, but it raised the question of how opposition forces could defend the enclave against the Syrian government's air force and Scud missiles.

The reason could be that the nail-screw angle is fixed through the guide system, and if the lateral wall is fractured, the nail itself could have a lateral buttress effect by direct contact of the proximal part of the nail with the neck-head fragment.

The idea that it doesn't exist, that the United States attacked itself, is buttressed by preachers in mosques, on satellite television channels and in glossy Arabic books.

Religion is one buttress.