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Significados de buttress en inglés

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Architectural structure, usually of masonry, built to strengthen or support walls or resist the lateral thrust of vaults.

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

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Uso de buttress en inglés
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Meanwhile, the State continues to buttress the better-off with free tuition fees.
The Irish Times
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Tipperary buttress their lead and the reporters have found their turning point.
The Irish Times
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Haldane even cites the highest of all authorities to buttress this idea:
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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The following day we studied our line on the tower's southeast buttress.
Climbing Magazine
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We rounded the buttress only to find that the chase had vanished.
Stories from Everybody's Magazine
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Close to the ground on the south-west corner buttress are two string-courses.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Chichester (1901) / A...
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Italian lenders are increasingly betting on insurance to buttress weakening banking revenues.
Reuters
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I got astride of the buttress, and painfully forced my way up.
Wilfrid Cumbermede
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Hiding themselves behind a buttress, they awaited his coming in breathless silence.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2
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Three women alone would have to buttress their authority with such trappings.
Key Out of Time
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Ahead, a rounded buttress curved around the corner of the training yard.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
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A smear of fresh blood coated the trunk of a buttress tree.
Sacrifice
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Both sides of the debate say scientific studies buttress their points.
Reuters
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He used a facile mixture of fact and opinion to buttress his conclusions.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
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They both drive economic growth and also buttress the political system.
The Guardian
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Ethics legislation was supposed to buttress the public's confidence in politics.
The Irish Times
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Buttress a través del tiempo
Buttress por variante geográfica
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