buttressing

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of Buttress

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Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems. Desmond Tutu

Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what they've already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy - not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward. Peter Diamandis

Alvarado saw Sutter's plan of establishing a colony in Central Valley as useful in "buttressing the frontier which he was trying to maintain against Indians, Russians, Americans and British." Source: Internet

Buttressing Akeredolu’s statement, Adamu said the participants at the meeting had fine-tuned Operation Amotekun and adopted it to be state-led initiative and not regional. Source: Internet

Oddly, Cassini seems to have abandoned this reasoning, which Rømer adopted and set about buttressing in an irrefutable manner, using a selected number of observations performed by Picard and himself between 1671 and 1677. Source: Internet

There is a deeply reactionary and violent element to conservation and its politics that can only be effectively and totally subdued with a buttressing by class-based intersectional feminist praxis and discourse. Source: Internet

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