But also because, Russia, China and Iran, which have buttressed Mr Assad, have agreed to it.
Developers have no choice but to build to the sky, buttressed by the omnipresent bamboo scaffolding.
Buttressed by his Renault experience, Mr Ghosn is likewise ignoring internal opposition to his changes at Nissan.
Lawfare is often buttressed by demands that the U.S. abide by so-called legal norms, both domestic and international.
The new, softer approach to dictators is buttressed by grand theories about life in the post-Cold War world.
Instead, it has buttressed the stock portfolios of wealthy people and the residential home values of the middle class.
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The activists, buttressed by impressive strategic work by the Clinton Foundation, were right.
We were corporate citizens, buttressed by advanced degrees and padded by corporate fat.
Texas, he notes, has a fiscally stable government buttressed by oil and gas revenues and spending from Uncle Sam.
This memory is buttressed by an intellectual fear: unions, to Mr Blair, mean the protection of insiders against outsiders.
Syria's nascent economic reform programme needs to be buttressed by a significant increase in foreign direct investment and development aid.
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The willingness of households to pile up debt buttressed the growth in consumption and overall demand during the past few years.
But his readers are entitled to an honest presentation of the facts, not a series of falsehoods buttressed by material omissions.
Japan's economy will again slow down unless the investment pickup is sustained and is buttressed by another source of aggregate demand.
The chief enemy here is bureaucracy, buttressed by national opposition to immigration.
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In addition to these formal apparatuses, lawfare is buttressed by demands that the U.S. abide by so-called legal norms, both domestic and international.
In Brussels, the fashionable talk is of a new grand bargain, in which consent for continued liberalisation is buttressed by new guarantees of solidarity.
Drummer Jahphet Landis and trombone player David Smith buttressed the sound.
China is preparing for a world beyond the inconvertible paper dollar, a world in which the renminbi, buttressed by gold, becomes the dominant reserve currency.
It is buttressed by resilience because it is from resilience we learn the value of perseverance, that is, focusing on a goal and sticking to it.
This anti-Islamist coalition, however, badly miscalculated the competence of ICU militias that fought not for money but for ideology, and whose strength was buttressed by Arab jihadis.
Any such partial amnesty must be buttressed by tough measures to control future applicants, such as fingerprinting and identity cards, to prevent a repetition of the present situation.
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But his authority has been buttressed by four structural changes.
Claims like this were significantly buttressed by former Secretaries of State Kissinger, Shultz, Baker, Lawrence Eagleburger and Colin Powell in December, 2010, in the pages of the Washington Post.
Licensing deals buttressed the earnings of several Cash Queens, including Gwen Stefani and Jennifer Lopez, who boast their own clothing lines and have stamped their names on popular fragrances.
Fortunately, the case for sectors as a way to augment your core equity exposure and manage your economic perspective is buttressed by more advanced measurements of their return patterns.
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That evidence was buttressed by revelations from the International Atomic Energy Agency late last year of Khan's nuclear dealings with Iran and Libya, leaving Musharraf little choice but to act.
Demand is expected to strengthen in the second half of the year as a seasonal boost is buttressed by a recovery in China and the resumption of deferred infrastructure spending there.
Late last week, new data and a regulatory decision buttressed the outlook for medicines that Genentech (nyse: DNA - news - people ) is developing with smaller biotech partners.
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