Those amendments were subsequently introduced and the judges had buttressed them with new practice directions and new precedents.
Raul, looking for ways to replace the old Soviet barter arrangements that had buttressed the country's economy, dispatched military officers to negotiate investment deals with foreigners.
So far, it has buttressed its arguments with tough politicking.
Falling mortgage rates have buttressed housing even with consumer confidence at a two-year low.
The tiny South Pacific country of Tuvalu, despite being strung with so few phone lines that international callers hear busy signals more often than voices, has buttressed its economy with cash from the Internet.
I should have buttressed the theory with larger examples.
Cementing its defence arrangement with Taiwan, and holding large-scale naval war games in China's back yard in recent months, the US has buttressed its alliances with its East Asian allies.
He seems to have simply succumbed to a political tendency less common in America than in Germany, where a string of politicians lost their jobs after they were found to have buttressed their political resumes with PhDs.
Mr. Iger, having buttressed the movie division with the $7.4 billion purchase of Pixar in 2006 and the recent $4 billion acquisition of Marvel Entertainment, has repeatedly expressed displeasure with the studio's lack of communication with other business units.
All of this, Middle East experts say, means that Mr. Obama may have buttressed his own standing with the Israeli public, and is now in a far better position to start pressing Mr. Netanyahu on issues from the Israeli siege of Gaza to Iran to the dormant Middle East peace process, where he has had little leverage.
This was a natural move for the British nose-to-tail devotee, as Bloomfield has buttressed her gastropub mini-empire with two exemplary specimens: a hefty, salt-bombed Roquefort-covered beef gem, at the Spotted Pig, and, at the Breslin, a lamb burger that may be the juiciest in the city.
