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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.
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.
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.
I risk boring you with my autobiography to buttress my contention that The Deep End of the Ocean is fundamentally bogus.
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.