But she knew how much that hero needed proper buttressing.

The trunk is beige in colour, cylindrical with little buttressing.

The bark is thin, and there is no buttressing.

Hollow amphorae were fitted inside one another to provide a lightweight structure and avoid additional buttressing.

The weight of the roof necessitated external buttressing of the south aisle at this time as well.

Outside, the buildings tended towards mass buttressing.

The vaults fell, he said, "because there was a miscalculation in the buttressing, an eccentric placement of key supports."

The Tower comprises four stages beneath a restored parapet with diagonal buttressing.

The trunk has smooth grey-brown bark and reaches a maximum diameter of 90 cm (36 in) with some buttressing.

Every second pier was enlarged by adding a broad pilaster or dosseret, which formed a system of interior buttressing.

"Liberalism will be identified with the buttressing of weak bargaining positions in the economy," Mr. Galbraith wrote.

Confucianism was well suited to the administration of territory and the buttressing of central authority (that is, royal absolutism).

At times, she wished the simple act of taking two aspirin could accomplish the same buttressing of her self against the flo of others' passions.

The buttressing of the walls would be tested in AD 256 when Shapur I besieged the city.

Mr. Chuene, a member of the powerful black mineworkers' union, said that this time blacks would not take the buttressing of apartheid laws lying down.

Over time shells appeared more tightly coiled, with greater buttressing, showing more teeth lining increasingly smaller openings in heavily guarded entryways.

Nonetheless, the 1986 Drug Law resulted in the hiring of thousands of new Federal agents and a buttressing of efforts to stop drugs on the nation's borders.

After their loss the reduced buttressing of feeder glaciers has allowed the expected speed-up of inland ice masses after shelf ice break-up.

The exterior buttressing is purely decorative, for the structure is supported on its steel frame, and its weight would not be sufficient to counter the weight of the vault.

"Otherwise, we may never have known the full extent of the growth and buttressing of the wall that we can now all agree led to many of the intelligence failures before 9/11."

ON the off chance that a truism needs a little buttressing, a New York Telephone advertisement that tells a story, of all things, has proved a big hit with viewers.

For instance, the so-called Navarre Plan called for a buttressing of the Vietnamese National Guard and the deployment of an additional nine battalions of French troops.

In 1005 the abbot Aviard undertook to rebuild the church of St-Remy, and for twenty years the work went on uninterruptedly before vaulting collapsed, no doubt from insufficient buttressing.

Lob in rear buttressing, and the rising waistline that is now de rigueur for even the smallest car with sporting pretensions, and the side windows appear too small for flanks of Queen Mary proportions.

But this permanent PATH station, which will replace the temporary one now in service, is likely to become the kind of creation that is iconic in its own right, that needs no explanatory buttressing.

Against the west wall are two small buttresses built in 1821.

I have just been taking in sun, a nice day, and looking out over the buttresses.

They are brought down into the church as internal buttresses.

The front of the building, to the west, is articulated by buttresses.

Two flying buttresses were added to the north side of the church in 1574.

The east face has a set of five grouped together between two buttresses.

The tower buttresses may have been added at this time.

The tower has buttresses on its north and south walls.

The 2 stage west tower has buttresses on each corner.

Buttresses are placed between the windows on both sides of the building.

The tower is in three stages and has two buttresses.

The north wall of the nave also has three buttresses.

The tower is in two stages with buttresses on the west side.

There are buttresses along the sides and at the corners.

The windows along the sides of the church are divided by buttresses.

Between the narrow buttresses, the walls could be opened up into large windows.

At the west end are buttresses and a four-light window.

The west window has four lights, and is flanked by buttresses.

You have to start looking for buttresses and things that connect together."

One of the buttresses is marked with an old mass dial.

These buttresses may have been added in the 16th century.

The north side of the church is divided by buttresses into four bays.

The south aisle is of four bays and has low buttresses.

Buttresses were added to the south face in the 15th century.

At the east end, flanking the windows, are large buttresses.

He needs the support of the military to continue buttressing his Government.

Microsoft has a few more weeks to buttress its case.

The fact that the family had not reported the child missing buttressed the idea.

But he presented new details to buttress the administration's case.

It would buttress a line of thought I was pursuing.

The wall was then buttressed with five huge new masses and set right.

But the second argument does tend to buttress the first.

They buttressed me to some degree from the isolation I felt.

Is he doing this for their good, or to buttress his own power?"

Both sides have called in researchers to buttress their claims.

She also just hired an outside marketing team to buttress the work of the staff.

That assistance had been important over the years in buttressing his rule.

The surge in academic growth seems to buttress that view.

Their story was buttressed by three videos of the incident.

Like other students, he said such incidents, and the thinking behind them, may have buttressed his faith.

The city's improved economy and its growth as a world financial capital have also buttressed the market, he said.

He buttressed his back against one of them and lit a cigarette.

When the word finally came, it was buttressed by sobs.

The central doorway is stepped and the front wall has been buttressed.

The base of the tree may be buttressed in larger trees.

But he has really buttressed himself with the will to disbelieve.

Few Republicans are using the contract to buttress their campaigns.

And they can show results to buttress their point.

The idea is to buttress the center and try to take control of e4.

This does not mean the idea would never work, buttressed perhaps by better antitrust enforcement.