• The remnant of a long-disused church building, it was built out of solid stone with massive buttresses supporting long, high walls.
• Around the perimeter, massive brick buttresses provide lateral restraint.
• Kain thanked the man and followed the directions, coming to a thickly built stone building with buttresses and smaller towers extending several stories above where the main building ended.

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• Even ‘reverence for the emperor, the most important ideological buttress of the old order, was evidently giving way’.
• At every stage in a fairytale life, the stoic sensible lovely Lancashire lass has been Tom's buttress, giving unstinting support and keeping his feet firmly on the ground.
• In these short few weeks the coach must re-shape - he vehemently contests the description ‘rebuild’ - Rangers, with a new midfield, attack, and a defensive buttress or two.

• For example, huge ‘flying shores’ had to be fitted to buttress the structure against movement.
• Preparing for all these people, and buttressing runways for a plane that can weigh 544 tonnes on takeoff, is not cheap.
• The outer walls were buttressed with typical large blocks while within, they were fashioned from small unfinished stones mortared into place, reminding one of a traditional castle or keep in Avalon or Torrencia.

• We regard Article 10 as reinforcing and buttressing the conclusions we have reached and set out above.
• The Athenian polis, buttressed by the strength of its Council of Five Hundred and Assembly of citizens, managed to gain control of a confederation of city-states which gradually became the Athenian Empire.
• Whether in business or politics, partnerships are supposed to buttress the strengths of those involved.

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