Sentence examples for buttressed of from inspiring English sources

After all, it was the Republican-led search for racial progress in the 1860s and the Democratic-led fight for civil rights in the 1960s — buttressed, of course, by African-Americans' own freedom struggle — that allowed the election of a black president in 2008.

Instead, they say, the decision buttressed criticism of a pattern of American "unilateralism" and disengagement.

Number of buttressed trees and number of trees influenced abundance of lizards and frogs respectively.

His concern about the balance of powers, buttressed by ten years of teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago.

This paper represents an economic optimization of buttressed earth-retaining walls.

Diameters of buttressed trees were measured immediately above the buttresses to avoid overestimation (Condit 1998).

The symbolic role of migration has been buttressed by the trajectory of the left.

Will it buttress freedom of expression or intensify the current trend toward censorship?

Robel, A. Thinning sea ice weakens buttressing force of iceberg mélange and promotes calving.

Counterweight fills, toe berms, retaining walls, and reinforced earth structures can buttress toes of slopes.

He was insecure and Cynthia was there to pump him up, to buttress, sort of, his weak side".