Sentence examples for trying to buttress from inspiring English sources

Mr. Jasper said the government was unfairly trying to buttress a weak credit card case with unproven allegations about terrorism.

Until that point, the summations had proceeded smoothly, with each side trying to buttress its arguments and poke holes in the other's.

Others say he might be trying to buttress ImClone in its battle with Bristol-Myers and has not actually committed himself to buying any shares.

In "Obama's Wars," Mr. Woodward also reports that President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan — whose government the United States has been trying to buttress — "had been diagnosed as a manic-depressive, according to intelligence".

Training Iraqi security forces and turning responsibility over to them makes sense if the Americans are trying to buttress an embattled government against insurgents; but, as sectarian violence rises, with the police and the Army dominated by one group, the Americans could also be arming one side of an approaching civil war.

He tried to buttress the lawyer's argument by suggesting that the Office of Civil Rights frequently investigated complaints.

After each financial crisis, lawmakers try to buttress regulation by closing a weak supervisor and consolidating oversight under a stronger central agency.

Dominik tried to buttress the pass-rush last season by spending a first-round pick on Adrian Clayborn and a second-rounder on Da'Quan Bowers.

Now they tried to buttress each other, members of an exclusive support group — new mothers who were elite international distance runners.

An insecure or weak leadership may try to buttress its position by pushing its claims even further and harassing its neighbors.

In the short run, Pfizer may try to buttress its slumping stock by raising its annual dividend, currently 96 cents a share, by 15percentt or more, analysts said.