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Example sentences for: buttress

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To buttress internal opposition, the allies should restore Radio Free Iraq, end the Kurdish civil war in the north, and indict him as a war criminal.
Cokie Roberts and Sam Donaldson also quote Scripture during the segment to buttress their arguments, apparently from memory.
But the second argument does tend to buttress the first.
I risk boring you with my autobiography to buttress my contention that The Deep End of the Ocean is fundamentally bogus.
During the Cold War, liberals shunned military intervention--even humanitarian military intervention--because such adventurism could provoke conflict with the Soviets and tended to buttress thuggish right-wingers.