But because neither side has been able to buttress its arguments with solid facts, the controversy has been clouded by charges and countercharges made all the more strident by the lack of real information. (religion-online.org)
He is now studying fossil records in Russia and Greenland that could further buttress his arguments for a global disaster. (sciencemag.org)
For some that authority is a biblical text: I can buttress my argument by an appeal to the words of a man called Jesus that «the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath.» (religion-online.org)