This isn't Ronald Reagan and Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill creating a reasonably defensible solution to buttress Social Security finances.
President Xi Jinping's administration has tightened control over almost every aspect of civil society since 2012, citing the need to buttress national security and stability.
Even buttressed by Social Security, that's not going to last very long.
The belief that a zone of democracy equaled a zone of peace and security buttressed the desire of the George W. Bush administration to use force to topple Saddam Hussein's dictatorship in Iraq and its expectation that the democratization of that country would result in the spread of democracy throughout the Middle East.
Powell would buttress McCain's national security credentials and echo his political philosophy, although I suspect that Powell is probably to the left of McCain on abortion, taxes and the like.
After rebuilding New York City and buttressing the nation's security, expanded and more generous unemployment insurance should be the first priority.
In early April, Iraqi security forces, buttressed by Iranian backed Shia militias and advisers from Tehran, along with American-led air support, took back Tikrit.
Faced with a relentless assault from US-led coaircraftandcraft and Iraqi security forces buttressed by powerful, often Iranian-backed, Shiite militias, IS has by some accounts lost a quarter of the self-proclaimed "caliphate" it captured in Iraq and Syria last year.
Now, it represents what Sadr has described as a "bastion of corruption" — where political deal making happens behind a buttress of barbed wire and security checkpoints, far from the public eye.
