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Significados de buttressing em inglês

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

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Uso de buttressing em inglês
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But some reckon that the new age needs buttressing by new thinking.
The Irish Times
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She soothed him gently and sweetly, buttressing his weakness with her love.
Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases: Seventeen Short Stories
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Paul Kimmage and Martin Earley, the other valiant musketeers buttressing our partisan interest.
The Irish Times
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Microsoft is buttressing this stance in arguing against the ruling from Judge Alsup.
Wired
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But the circumstantial evidence of the hormone's role in buttressing male assertiveness is overwhelming.
The Disposable Male
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Bumpers' closing speech for Clinton's defense team was credited with strongly buttressing Clinton's cause.
Reuters
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Either way, these theorists did not ever get any verbal buttressing from Dom Manuel.
Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances
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It's old, and I never got around to buttressing it where it needs it.
The Great Book of Amber
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With the cold air came cold water, condensing and freezing, and Maria's buttressing hand slid.
Clementine
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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...
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Earlier this year, Pandora started including audio ads in addition to banners, further buttressing its bottom line.
Wired
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Some learn that compliments are knives picking away at the incipient barriers still in need of buttressing.
Jamaica Observer
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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
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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
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Buttressing ao longo do tempo