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  • This time around she invited Britton Bertran to curate a show titled Buttress - you know, where things are either propped up or decorated somewhat artificially.

    Paul Klein: Some Excellent New Exhibits This Time Around 2009

  • The best bit of the holiday was without doubt the climbing of Flying Buttress which is a Very Difficult or VDiff route on the Dinas Cromlech crag in the Llanberis Pass.

    A week in North Wales Chickenlady 2009

  • The best bit of the holiday was without doubt the climbing of Flying Buttress which is a Very Difficult or VDiff route on the Dinas Cromlech crag in the Llanberis Pass.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Chickenlady 2009

  • Even the stance on Scafell's Central Buttress called The Oval has had the heavy roller applied, thanks to the snowdrifts weighing down here of late.

    Country diary: Lake District 2011

  • Hail-blasted, too, are the infinitely harder routes, now also cleansed of chalk up this great crag and beyond; to East Buttress and Pillar Rock and Dow Crag and wonderful Gimmer on Langdale Pikes.

    Country diary: Lake District 2011

  • Buttress Doctors with more drama with uplifting outcomes – like the series Moving On, Indian Doctor and Land Girls – and repeats of suitable series, if they can be shifted and afforded.

    The BBC needs to broadcast TV gold for the silver generation 2011

  • Gubernatorial Buttress: In Florida's three-way race for the U.S. Senate, Congressman Kendrick Meek is stuck in third, 20 points behind frontrunner Marco Rubio and facing almost certain defeat.

    HUFFPOST HILL - OCTOBER 25TH, 2010 The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Crag faces like Pillar Rock, Esk Buttress, Cam Spout Crag and Napes Needle could well pass within metres of the rock polishers' wingtips as they soar by a world where only climbers and their ropes normally venture.

    Country diary: Grasmere, Lake District 2011

  • Buttress these patrols with National Guard troops, if necessary, due to drug trafficking activity.

    New force for broad immigration reform: Evangelicals 2010

  • Later in another call he admitted that the 'Southeast Buttress' was steep enough to climb (and ten kilometers tall) so I was all right.

    Best of 2009 2010

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