The orchestra's new maestro intends to spend his inaugural season fortifying the ensemble's foundation and bolstering his own understanding of his environment.
He cited 111 South Wacker, a Chicago skyscraper on which he worked, which reused and bolstered the existing foundations of a smaller building to erect a taller one; and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Tower, also here, a 30-story structure from the mid-1990s, toffed off with 25 more stories a decade later.
Levees along the lake, by contrast, performed well as water surged elsewhere in the canals, bolstered by strong foundations.
Surveys of two hundred and twenty-five buildings identified foundations that needed bolstering, leaning tenements that had to be propped up, and detaching façades that had to be reinforced, all on the taxpayer dime.
The extraordinary profits resulting from the sale of the spices bolstered the Portuguese Crown's finances and helped lay the foundation of a Portuguese Empire that would stretch from the Americas to the Far East.
But a proposed sale of the property, intended to bolster the foundation's finances and create a long-term endowment, has backfired.
The world's oldest insurance market was hit by record claims, mostly stemming from last year's hurricane season.Strategic steel stitching-upArcelor transferred its recently acquired holdings in Dofasco, a Canadian steelmaker, to a Dutch foundation so as to bolster its defences against Mittal Steel's hostile takeover plans, which include selling Dofasco.
The development of "second-strike" nuclear forces, which could guarantee a response even after the sneakiest of sneak attacks, bolstered stability.The new nuclear age is built on shakier foundations.
— has only bolstered the scene.
The tapes bolstered that impression.
This bolstered the twins' creditworthiness.
