This is a flying buttress.

This buttress is less than halfway up the tree.

UNDP should buttress the application of gender mainstreaming in its work.

This reiteration is a huge flying buttress that comes out the tree itself.

The global financial architecture needs to be reformed to buttress harmonization and coordination.

Those developments will buttress war fighting capabilities and enhance the propensity for use.

Our work to buttress a culture of peace, coupled with wisdom and adherence to principles, will ultimately determine our destiny.

Moreover, globalization and instantaneous communication technologies have made it impossible to contain conflict within national borders. Domestic economic and political grievances can now buttress discontent across regions and continents.

One key element of our success is the institutions that buttress our development. These include our legal system, which is underpinned by an independent judiciary, our legislature, and our civil service.

Redwoods grow back into themselves as they expand into space, and this flying buttress is a limb shot out of that small trunk, going back into the main trunk and fusing with it.

The objective was to draft an FMT that will buttress the security of all States, irrespective of their size and status, and will be an instrument or both nuclear disarmament and non proliferation.

Formulation of an information strategy on family issues, and production and dissemination of information messages designed to buttress civilized family values on the one hand, and the values of science, knowledge and dialogue on the other hand

China can leverage its considerable influence over the AIIB to bolster its international image, particularly by strengthening its relationships with developing countries. Many developing Asian countries, for example, have significant unmet need for infrastructure investment to buttress their long term economic growth.

The performance was long rehearsed in both Washington and Beijing, because both governments needed at least the appearance of a successful visit. China s ruling Communist Party needed Obama s unequivocal endorsement of China s increasingly important international role in order to buttress its domestic legitimacy.

Russia and China should expect enormous pressure from Obama to do more to discourage Iran from proceeding with uranium enrichment. This will include calls for greater political and economic sanctions, and conceivably even support for limited uses of military force to buttress sanctions.

Most European countries, and the European Union as a whole, however, have not matched this commitment by offering their own incentives for peace and consequences for war. European commitments in this regard, however, could help buttress the calculations of the parties in favor of peace.

Indeed, the fight against corruption is at war with itself, because Xi is simultaneously seeking to buttress one party rule. But it is precisely the absence of effective checks on the exercise of power that encourages and sustains rampant corruption in the first place.

The International Monetary Fund should be an essential port of call for emerging market and developing countries facing financing needs. With its ability to mobilize large financial resources and buttress policy credibility, the IMF can help mitigate the large economic and social costs often associated with crises.

New Managing Director Christine Lagarde s recent call for forced recapitalization of Europe s bankrupt banking system is a good start. European officials incensed reaction the banks are fine, they insist, and need only liquidity support should serve to buttress the Fund s determination to be sensible about Europe.

Consequently, to carry out this vision, her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser al Missnad, Consort of His Highness the Emir of the State of Qatar, established the above mentioned trust fund, which provides opportunities for non governmental organizations to buttress their pivotal roles in development activities.

At that point, the CSRC launched a succession of desperate measures it suspended initial public offerings, allowed companies to stop trading, and limited short selling. It even organized a national team of 21 large securities companies, led by a government controlled financial corporation, to purchase shares to buttress the Shanghai Composite Index.

In fact, barring most major Russian banks from operating freely in Western capital markets could affect the entire Russian economy, not just the banks themselves. And the central bank s decision to raise interest rates to buttress the ruble may lead to much tighter credit conditions for companies and households, pushing the Russian economy into recession this year and next.

For almost a decade, people have wondered how China would use its gargantuan foreign exchange reserves, particularly whether it would challenge the supremacy of the dollar. It now seems clear that China intends to use its foreign reserves to further its own global geopolitical strategy, not to buttress the international system that has enabled its three decade boom.

In our opinion, the idea of the creation of an authoritative intergovernmental mechanism capable of establishing a substantive link between security and development and of ensuring the development of an integrated mission plan, with adequate coordination among the various intergovernmental and national donor agencies, warrants universal support, as it would buttress efforts towards optimizing synergies for recovery and reconstruction.

Given this interconnectedness, it is unsurprising that the EU s compartmentalized responses such as the European Agenda on Migration, the Eastern Partnership, and the Energy Security Strategy while important, have proved inadequate. What is needed is an overarching framework that not only underpins a self reinforcing and coordinated response to core security threats, but also takes advantage of linkages and opportunities to buttress Europe s capacity to act.

They buttress their argument that the deficit is not an immediate problem by pointing to very low interest rates on long term government debt, with a 2 yield on the ten year Treasury bond and a negative real interest rate on Treasury inflation protected bonds (TIPS). But such low rates do not reflect ordinary market sentiment rather, they stem from the fact that the Federal Reserve is now buying more long term securities than the government is issuing to finance the budget deficit.