Sentence examples for designed to buttress from inspiring English sources

The disclosure today seemed designed to buttress the Administration's case in favor of aid to the rebels.

Now General Musharraf has announced plans for a new political system designed to buttress his own power by excluding the country's top politicians.

He comes up with an "alternative AMS" (additional member system) designed to buttress stable government by allowing majority party rule instead of permanent coalition.

The manchow soup, long a Chinese-Indian staple, is a soy-garlic stew, rich in scallions and chicken and heaped with crispy dry noodles, which seems designed to buttress diners against wintry weather.

The four members of Metronomy still each wear a bulbous portable light on their chest – part Ood, part Iron Man – but the cleverly co-ordinated lightshow is designed to buttress rather than distract from their snaking electro-rock.

Yet the French theorist who was 100% non-Anglo could be forgiven for his relative (but only relative) disinterest in the "Hollow Crown" plays, which were principally designed to buttress the Tudor regime's claims to the English throne.

Its inclusion in Bush's list seems designed both to buttress that argument, which has little to do with the events of September 11th, and to keep the list from consisting entirely of Islamic countries.

The taller steeple was originally designed to have flying buttresses at the bottom.

Her $175,000 contribution is the latest in a series of moves by Warren designed to elect Democratic candidates and buttress the depleted party's presence across the country.

It has actually buttressed the very extremists it was designed to defeat.

Many governments are wary of democracy aid because it is designed to foster independent institutions and civil society, rather than buttress entities under the control of incumbent national leaders.