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Example sentences for: bolster

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The move was made, says the Wall Street Journal , to forestall the flight of investors from its emerging markets and to bolster confidence in Russia's abilities to pay its bills.
Both the NYT and LAT make the point that the deal isn't about the operating system competition between the two companies, which Microsoft won long ago, but is about Microsoft's need to secure its business as the largest seller of programs for Macintosh computers (the NYT observes) and to bolster its position in Internet products (the LAT and Wall Street Journal observe.)
Two inventions are used to bolster the dramatic power of this conclusion: In one, which takes place just after the Selma march scene, Archie (Clarence Williams III), the fictional prison trusty who serves as Wallace's servant throughout the film, stands behind the governor, an ice pick in his hand, debating whether to stab him.
This will bolster monitoring already underway in virtually every state, including postmortem examinations of game killed by hunters and by sharpshooters in mass culling operations.
It has become one of the DSM 's most popular disorders, in part because it is so very useful to its diagnosees: It makes them eligible for insurance-reimbursed therapy, for instance, and it can bolster an insanity defense.