Sentence examples for buttress to from inspiring English sources

Rooting for the Yankees, Tony writes, provided "a buttress to my self-esteem, a substitute family".

This allows each buttress to be more slender, however, and spreads the load more evenly over the foundation.

U.S. aid to Egypt, of course, has long been a buttress to the Egyptian-Israeli Camp David peace accords.

I think the original name for it was "Mycenaean wall", and there's definitely something of a buttress to it.

In 1842 he obtained a patent for an improvement in the Howe truss, incorporating a curved timber extending from each buttress to the centre of the truss.

In construction medieval European engineers carried technique, in the form of the Gothic arch and flying buttress, to a height unknown to the Romans.

Slanting concrete buttresses flank the entrance to each building and, Mr. Burney said, trespassers long used the buttresses to hide as they broke locks and smashed windows.

But America responded to the stresses of the information economy by reducing the communal buttresses to self-control, with unfortunate results.

His solution: extend each lobby out past the buttresses to the sidewalk and build a large, glass-walled pavilion next to each entrance.

With triumphal heroes so hard to find at ground zero, the widows became essential buttresses to the post-9/11 mythmaking process.

Notre Dame de Paris was almost completely rebuilt, flying buttresses to winged gargoyles, by Viollet-le-Duc a century and a half ago.