Exempel på bolster

• A discipline's understanding of its past can be a legend bolstering today's priorities.

• He might lose a sense of his superiority which bolsters his ego in public and private life.

• The cultural task of selling had much more to do with entrenching hierarchies, reinforcing hegemonic assumptions, and bolstering expectations of coherence.

• The legitimacy of claims to the chieftaincy has been bolstered by other symbols.

• The cycle is performed without interruption, bolstering the impression of it being 24 different perspectives on a single song.

• Cobble stair bolstered by cut blocks ascends the eastern facade.

• I am inclined, in fact, to think that this anxiety functioned almost purely as a strategic device for government which bolstered its case for intervention.

• By invoking the certitudes and simplicities of an idealized past, religion bolsters the individual's capacity to face up to the uncertainties of fast-paced city life.

• The greatly diminished visibility of women workers bolstered a growing ideological commitment to the notion of a cohesive and solidaristic (male) working class.

• In addition to the difficulties inherent in this type of research, the present study is bolstered by a number of methodological strengths.

• The repatriation agenda bolstered these claims in so far as repatriants needed somewhere to settle.

• The very nature of this mode of mobilization bolstered the unity of the movement.

• Considerations of established conventions and their modifications tend to encourage anti-generic evaluative positions, judgements which are then bolstered by appealing to influential aesthetic systems.

• Indeed, in the writings of systems theorists "growth through specialization" sometimes enjoys an axiomatic status, bolstered by a strong organismic analogy and little empirical argument.

• Diets below the caloric goal were bolstered by adding sweeteners (up to 10% dietary energy) and extra base plant foods (grains, vegetables and fruits).