But his knees buttressed him, and he wouldn't roll.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bailey White: 'The Telephone Man'] Reference

Those worries will be buttressed by reactions like Leckey's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Murdoch’s Last Laugh] Reference

Atlantic gales that the very tombstones have been buttressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cornwall Coast] Reference

The buttressed pedestal of one of the buildings loomed directly ahead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missing Link] Reference

The group's findings buttressed McChrystal's request for 40,000 additional troops.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of the Neocons] Reference

The chapel was originally vaulted, so is well buttressed, which the aisle walls are not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference

The octagon with its narrow windows rests on a plain, square base that is massively buttressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference

Israel's security could be further buttressed by demilitarizing the territory returned to Syria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Should Talk To Syria Now] Reference

Their arguments, buttressed by decades of research from around the world, seem self-evident to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The book that has the Tories running scared] Reference

From the edge of the bordering swamp the cypress reared its vast buttressed column and leafy canopy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863] Reference

It is adding sinews to Putin's existing semi-dictatorship, which is buttressed by his control of television.    From Wordnik.com.  [A LETHAL IDEA STILL LIVES] Reference

The University of Michigan says letters of appeal must be buttressed with documentation from outside sources.    From Wordnik.com.  [APPEALING A REJECTION LETTER] Reference

The transept is well buttressed, and the gable is flanked by pinnacles, beneath which curious gargoyles project.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference

At last they got it with much nodding of heads and exhibited the book, buttressed with an eager finger at the place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 11, 1914] Reference

They do not believe in them, and therefore they have got to be buttressed by some outside power in which they do not believe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference

Of what value can heathen asceticism and merit-making be while the heart is still barred and buttressed with self-righteousness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference

The revenue and jobs are welcome, and sometimes buttressed by a little brand-building, perhaps attracting tourists or investment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Motown Becomes Movietown] Reference

By the side of the main entrance rises a buttressed square tower, terminating in a high peaked roof prolonged into a short spire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

On the other hand, the Lycoming Creek claim is buttressed by such primary sources as the journals of Weiser, Bartram, Spangenberg.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography] Reference

Intentionally or not, Washington has buttressed his political position by reducing sanctions and allowing him to continue his war.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Disaster In The Making] Reference

This path was composed of wood chips, buttressed on one side by the water and on the other by jutting rocks and stands of saplings.    From Wordnik.com.  [a Lie] Reference

He said Lehman proposed to federal regulators measures that could have buttressed the firm but "each of those requests was denied.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dick Fuld, Ex-Lehman Chief: Government Denied Lehman, But Bailed Out Other Wall Street Firms] Reference

At all levels, the efforts of businesses need to be buttressed by education and concerted efforts to engender mutual understanding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Give Profit A Chance] Reference

Here we are at Athens, looking at the buttressed Acropolis and the ruined temples, -- the Doric Parthenon, the Ionic Erechtheum, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861] Reference

There was another thing Bloomberg had going for him: a multi-billion-dollar bank account that buttressed his "I don't need this job" independence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adrian Fenty was no Mike Bloomberg] Reference

Lalpore, on her buttressed slope, sat as proud and as silent as ever; but something like a blue ribbon floated from the south wall over the river.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Sonny Sahib] Reference

After this shaft I sank into silence, and was relieved when I saw the grey, buttressed gables of Startington Hall appear below us grouped amid its trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Border Ghost Stories] Reference

As the United States military prepares to leave Iraq by the end of 2011, the Obama administration is planning a remarkable civilian effort, buttressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. Plans To Double Private Security Forces In Iraq After Military Pullout] Reference

Mr. Goolsbee, buttressed by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, ultimately swayed the White House on the bank rule but didn't prevail on Chrysler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Economic Pick Signals Steady Course] Reference

The make-believe world created by stylists and buttressed by the clicking of camera shutters fell apart when reality barged its way back the very day of their big announcement.    From Wordnik.com.  ['I got played' by Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston] Reference

Such a bold move was buttressed by the use of visual aids that reproduced the names of the poems and along with pictures of their writers on a large screen behind the performers.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Shasha: Natalie Merchant and American Radical Traditionalism] Reference

Their action is buttressed by a new report from the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology recommending more and better training for science and math teachers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good and not-so-good in new Obama science ed plan] Reference