And even if the 300-year-old market can change its ways, the financial centre it buttresses may well be shaky.
The Kremlin, US diplomats say, is willing to adopt nationalist postures when it buttresses political support, but attempts to dictate the academic terms appeared "half-hearted".
On another plate, a mélange of roasted mushrooms, plump sun dried tomatoes, salsify and creamy fennel confit (the latter so delicious I wished there had been more of it) buttressed the mild, sweet taste of well-caramelized Maine scallops.
He describes how a basic mistake about the federal debt ended up in the state-of-the-union address without being checked because it buttressed the case for tax cuts.
This works best when no one from senior management is accused of a violation, much like the cases against Mr. Stoker and Mr. Tourre, because it buttresses the argument that the person has been made the scapegoat for corporate wrongdoing.
His prowess at minimal, absorbing plots was apparent in his first work, Wharton Dance (1940), inspired by teenage social events in his home town, and it buttressed a penchant for one-act works.
It buttresses the heart of her new argument to the superdelegates — that if she wins the popular vote across the whole country, how can they overturn the will of the people?
And Gallup released a poll on Friday entitled "The New Normal on Abortion: Americans More 'Pro-Life.' " It buttressed the finding from last summer when, for the first time since the question began being asked in 1995, more people self-identified as "pro-life" than as "pro-choice".
It buttresses the reason why most of the farmers adopted at least one of the improved cassava varieties.
Valgus osteotomy and internal fixation with dynamic hip screw and 120° double angle barrel plate plays a twofold role: it converts the shearing forces into the compression forces by placing the fracture site perpendicular to the resultant of body weight forces; and it buttresses the head of femur from below to improve stability provided by the internal fixation [12].
