Buttressing in a sentence as a noun

If you hit a human in the side of the jaw you're hitting a self-buttressing arc of bone and teeth.

All the rest of the list are best utilized by buttressing one's expanding coding skills.

Nothing else looks like them[0] on this planet, further buttressing my argument.

'This will be true as long as the cryptographic logic buttressing the system remains sound – just like the laws of physics underlie the desired properties of gold.

We must also appreciate the military might buttressing the current paradigm.

Wait, you're buttressing your argument that people shouldn't use awk because it's 2011, by advocating equally complex command composition with more tools?

The only thing buttressing against the sky-high compensation a good lawyer can make in the private sector is the political opportunity clerking and working in a court can open up. These aren't people one goes cheap on.

What's more important, linking to the original source or buttressing the story's credibility by highlighting that it's reported in Wired?

While this is very much in line with Rerum Novarum's call for state assistance for the poor, the way Francis presents this indicates that he understands it as a call for trying something distinctly new. Otherwise, he would simply talk about buttressing the welfare state, as the church often does.

Even "social impact" investors expect returns in reputation, or in buttressing the foundation on which their primary profit driven business is built.

The alarm, buttressing training delivered far before the alarm rings, gives you unquestionable and immediate permission to evacuate.

Inquiring as to whether others share your experience isn't illogical; it's the root of most human learning and understanding thus far, and I suspect it precedes most other methods of claim-buttressing.

If he can fly halfway around the world to pay his respects to the architects of this abomination, buttressing their hateful regime, then he can use his powers of publicity to call attention to the plight of those like Shin.

In my opinion, from reviewing your comment history and from our interaction, you're so committed to this project, and the belief you are buttressing is so frail to you, that you have to label everyone who mentions Marx as "a Marxist.

This type of contact tracing really brings it to another levelI'm curious about this, the author says they would like to "stress this point", but then provides no analysis or evidence to impress this... anyone have any buttressing points?

Without the buttressing support of ice shelves, scientists have assumed that the continent’s very tall ice cliffs would collapse, calving into the ocean, to expose even taller cliffs further inland, which would themselves fail and collapse, initiating a runaway ice-sheet retreat.

You could imagine many such nudges that could be employed to expand capital ownership short of distributing equity to employees "by force".Remember in general that the limited-liability corporation as an institutional type is itself a creation of government - the notion of a business as a separate entity with distributed owners such that the business can go bankrupt without allowing creditors to go after the non-business assets of the stockholders is an artificial and relatively modern invention with a large and complicated legal structure buttressing it.

Buttressing definitions

noun

a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building

See also: buttress