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It helps to remember that in the early 1960s, before the Stonewall Nation, feminists, and anti-colonial guerillas rose up to fight for pride and empowerment, abject depictions of women, queers and the colonized were still the default expression buttressed by law and religion.

G. Roger Denson: Jack Smith and the Aesthetics of Camp in an Era of Political Correctness G. Roger Denson 2011

It helps to remember that in the early 1960s, before the Stonewall Nation, feminists, and anti-colonial guerillas rose up to fight for pride and empowerment, abject depictions of women, queers and the colonized were still the default expression buttressed by law and religion.

G. Roger Denson: Jack Smith and the Aesthetics of Camp in an Era of Political Correctness G. Roger Denson 2011

Still, it wasn't until I'd passed through the "buttressed" spruce, which marks the unofficial entrance to OSI, and walked the hundred yards or so to a fallen tree upon whose trunk sits a red stone - the very square inch itself - that I apprehended just how privileged I was to be having the experience.

Whole Life Times 2009

As these groups immigrated to America, religion flowed naturally out of their ethnic heritage, while ethnicity buttressed their religion.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

He became known as the architect of the "single-bullet theory" that buttressed the finding that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin.

Arlen Specter: Senate Tenure Not Defined By Party Label AP 2011

He became known as the architect of the "single-bullet theory" that buttressed the finding that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin.

Arlen Specter: Senate Tenure Not Defined By Party Label AP 2011

The corporatist mentality no longer even has the empirical support that buttressed Berle's confidence in the power and long-term supremacy of large corporations.

Robert Teitelman: An Excursion With Adolf Berle Robert Teitelman 2011

The more than four hours of speeches, poetry and music were buttressed with testimonials from out-of-work Americans, immigrants, veterans and Native Americans.

Tens of thousands attend progressive 'One Nation Working Together' rally in Washington Krissah Thompson 2010

From that base he could assume political office and power, and that was what young Washington aimed for: enough land and wealth to join that rarefied circle, buttressed by an honorable reputation however earned.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

While TRAC officials said that buttressed their report's findings, Astrue said the more meaningful measure was the faster processing and decision-issuing times produced by his agency's improvement efforts.

Backlog grows for Social Security appeals 2011