Peter Mandelson

If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization.

British Politician

James McBride

Atticus Finch is, you know, he was just his whole - the business of his modesty and his ability to see tomorrow and to try to buttress his knowledge of what was coming for his kids was something that I'll never - as a father I'm not able to do.

American Writer

David Longstreth

Art can contextualise and buttress fame. So rather than being antagonistic in the way Fugazi would have had it in 1989, particularly in the present, maybe they are one - they belong to one another.

American Musician

Richard Flanagan

If war illuminates love, love offers the possibility of allowing some light to be brought back out of the shadows. It's almost as if they buttress and make possible an understanding of each other.

Australian Novelist

J. M. Roberts

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

Andrew Breitbart

Political correctness - the rigging of politics using different rules for different groups, and buttressed by the media - ensures that Democrats always have the upper hand.

American Businessman

Dan Hill

To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivalling, at times, that of carnival circuses.

Canadian Musician

John Ruskin

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

English Writer

Marquis de Sade

Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?

French Novelist

Gayle Lynds

American Author

Used in construction and architecture to describe physical supports for structures.

Architectural Term

Common in Gothic architecture, it adds beauty and strength to buildings.

Historical Use

Sometimes used metaphorically to indicate support in a non-physical sense.

Metaphorical Use

Often used in debates to describe the addition of evidence or logic that strengthens an argument.

Strengthen an Argument

Support an idea or plan with something tangible or persuasive to make it more robust.

Support Conceptually

Remember, as a verb, it does not refer to physical objects but to immaterial support.

Not Always Physical

Refers to the large, above-ground roots that stabilize certain trees.

Botanical Structure

Refers to rock or other earth formations that provide natural support similar to man-made buttresses.

Natural Form

 to clearly isolate a single tree. And so together, we decided to give good old painting a shot. And to tell you the truth, even when I was standing there right in front of them, it was difficult to see the entire tree. So instead I'd study the buttress up close

An illustrated kingdom...

 crutch-like prop roots or wavy buttress roots, to support themselves in their unsteady terrain. These newly established mangroves have to contend with two additional seawater is high in dehydrating and potentially toxic salt,

The sharks that hunt in...

 it's been really cool to experience all these kind of different perspectives on you know landscape that's really different the climb that we did of this huge buttress above the village of sibi

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 The attack is on! To intimidate their opponents, the aggressors scream and drum on buttress roots.

Buttress