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  • Buttressing this Biennial in theory that masquerades as drama hamstrings the script that, in turn leaves the viewer not fulfilled but anxious as in Harold Rosenberg's Anxious Object.

    James Scarborough: A Meta-Narrative for the "Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot For A Biennial," Sharjah, United Arab Emirates James Scarborough 2011

  • Buttressing this Biennial in theory that masquerades as drama hamstrings the script that, in turn leaves the viewer not fulfilled but anxious as in Harold Rosenberg's Anxious Object.

    James Scarborough: A Meta-Narrative for the "Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot For A Biennial," Sharjah, United Arab Emirates James Scarborough 2011

  • Buttressing post-Saddam Iraq cost a great deal, possibly more than was warranted.

    The Weakest Link 2010

  • Buttressing this, Martyns said HIV testing in pregnancy has a number of benefits in terms of prevention and care for mother and child.

    HIV Positive Mothers Defy Death Sentence 2009

  • Buttressing those demands are the authors of two recent reports who have called for greater student access to college and suggested that America must also do a better job insuring that students complete college.

    Don't Push Uneducated Students into Colleges 2009

  • Buttressing Citi Late in the day, The Wall Street Journal reported that Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is expected to be joined by other investors, including the China Development Bank, in putting more money into Citigroup.

    Competing Stimuli 2008

  • Buttressing the left bank of the broad watercourse was the dwarf hill of which we had been told so many tales.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • Buttressing features in Chimpanzees and gorillas wrist joinst that help lock their wrists in a stable position that can support a good portion of their weight on their fingers.

    The Hand Bone's Connected to the Wrist Bone... 2000

  • Buttressing the invocation of the "real" is the traditional New-Journalist Author's Note at the back citing tape-recorded interviews with "hundreds" of people, "some of them more than fifty times each."

    Mr. P, Mrs. V, and Mr. T Cockburn, Alexander 1980

  • Buttressing the decorative German letters, on cover and title page, appears some one of various conventionalisations of the German eagle, made very black, and wearing a crown and carrying a sceptre.

    Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday

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