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Example sentences for: buttress

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But the second argument does tend to buttress the first.
Though he had taken extensive notes throughout the Philadelphia convention, Madison never relied on them to buttress any constitutional arguments he made, whether as congressman, secretary of state, or president.
Where Gaddis does look at the breach between Tito and Stalin, it is to buttress his case that as democrats, the Americans were far more relaxed about managing alliance politics than Stalin was.
The two authors of the New Yorker article, Jane Mayer and Alexandra Robbins, buttress their insult to the governor's privacy with a backhanded compliment.
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.