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Meanings of buttressing in anglès

portuguès
contraforte
català
esperó

A support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building.

        esperó
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        Examples for "buttress"
        Examples for "buttress"
        1
        Meanwhile, the State continues to buttress the better-off with free tuition fees.
        The Irish Times
        2
        Tipperary buttress their lead and the reporters have found their turning point.
        The Irish Times
        3
        Haldane even cites the highest of all authorities to buttress this idea:
        The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
        4
        The following day we studied our line on the tower's southeast buttress.
        Climbing Magazine
        5
        We rounded the buttress only to find that the chase had vanished.
        Stories from Everybody's Magazine
        Usage of buttressing in anglès
        1
        But some reckon that the new age needs buttressing by new thinking.
        The Irish Times
        2
        She soothed him gently and sweetly, buttressing his weakness with her love.
        Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases: Seventeen Short Stories
        3
        Paul Kimmage and Martin Earley, the other valiant musketeers buttressing our partisan interest.
        The Irish Times
        4
        Microsoft is buttressing this stance in arguing against the ruling from Judge Alsup.
        Wired
        5
        But the circumstantial evidence of the hormone's role in buttressing male assertiveness is overwhelming.
        The Disposable Male
        6
        Bumpers' closing speech for Clinton's defense team was credited with strongly buttressing Clinton's cause.
        Reuters
        7
        Either way, these theorists did not ever get any verbal buttressing from Dom Manuel.
        Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances
        8
        It's old, and I never got around to buttressing it where it needs it.
        The Great Book of Amber
        9
        With the cold air came cold water, condensing and freezing, and Maria's buttressing hand slid.
        Clementine
        10
        The lower part of the north-east buttress incorporates the remains of the original twelfth-century flat buttressing.
        Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Chichester (1901) / A...
        11
        Earlier this year, Pandora started including audio ads in addition to banners, further buttressing its bottom line.
        Wired
        12
        Some learn that compliments are knives picking away at the incipient barriers still in need of buttressing.
        Jamaica Observer
        13
        The most important function of the defensive is that of covering, buttressing, and intensifying the main attack.
        Some Principles of Maritime Strategy
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        Half of it is being held up by buttressing, and it's got huts pitched in the streets.
        Cities in Flight
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        The reality is more on the lines of introducing a third hand that adds buttressing in the bass.
        The Irish Times
        16
        Bündchen's role in buttressing Brady cannot be underestimated, he said, as she maintains a certain cache with advertisers.
        Reuters
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        Translations for buttressing
        portuguès
        contraforte
        Buttressing through the time