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How to use the word bolster in a Sentence?

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It appears the low point for builder sentiment in this cycle was registered in December, even as many builders continue to use a variety of incentives, including price reductions, to bolster sales, the rise in builder sentiment also means that cycle lows for permits and starts are likely near, and a rebound for home building could be underway later in 2023.

Jerry Konter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Prime Minister Albanese told me Australia intends to remain as a reliable partner and a safe investment destination. We agreed to further bolster our cooperation in the areas of energy and natural resources.

Fumio Kishida

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

I always worry in this country when the quantum of proof that should be needed in a criminal case, somebody has to try to use music lyrics to bolster that level of proof -- especially with the tortured history in this country of not having people in the system treated the same as others.

Alex Spiro

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Most people can't spend at the same level in retirement as they did when they were working, lower your living costs now and use [ the savings ] to bolster your cash reserve going into retirement.

Rose Niang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Many of these partners are generously helping Ukraine, and we should help them backfill their inventories with more modern American capabilities that will improve NATO's interoperability and bolster deterrence.

Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We have been consistently concerned about NATO’s eastern flank and that airspace … and we continue to look for ways to bolster defense of NATO allies, we continue to look for ways to try to protect that airspace.

Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are seizing this moment to bolster our efforts to help more drivers make the switch to electric vehicles.

Liza Winship

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Make sure you consider the things that could get in the way of accomplishing your goal, and then build in ways to overcome those obstacles in your goal, the problems will guide the way towards solutions. This will also bolster your resilience when you inevitably face setbacks.

Sabrina Romanoff

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

First, it will help bolster the purchasing power of our nation's schools, allowing them to stretch their budgets during these uncertain times, second, at a time when families continue to face financial strain and hardship, this will give them fewer meal expenses to worry about each day.

Lisa Davis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Firefighters will work today to bolster lines where large pockets of previously unburned fuel threaten existing control lines.

Cal Fire

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We're making an additional $ 1.6 billion investment in American Rescue Plan funding to bolster testing and mitigation measures in high-risk congregate settings.

Jeff Zients

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Our early fundraising success will allow us to invest more in list building for our digital fundraising program in the month of July than was invested the entire 2020 cycle. We know that every dollar spent now results in a 5x + return down the road, this not only will help bolster our digital fundraising program for the 2022 cycle, but it's the most valuable asset we can continue to build and grow for cycles to come.

The NRSC

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If the base falls and the prison is overrun, these detainees can bolster the ranks of these terror groups.

Bill Roggio

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'm actively participating in the Governor's request to the CDC that they surge more vaccines to Michigan because there's no question that greater vaccine supply will bolster the efforts Michiganders are taking to social distance, double mask and follow other public health guidelines.

Andy Levin

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Once the health crisis is over, policy efforts can focus more on building resilient, inclusive, and greener economies, both to bolster the recovery and to raise potential output.

Gita Gopinath

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Trumps approach has probably made things better by improving border security. And, of course, the Trump administration unlike the Obama and Bush administrations didnt allow ATF to mastermind gun-smuggling operations into Mexico, for the purpose of later finding the crime guns and using the finding to bolster the argument for gun control in the U.S..

David Kopel

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Flipkart and Amazon are neck-to-neck in the e-commerce wars, in terms of their product offerings, their initiatives to bolster affordability and increase consumer confidence, and most importantly, their last-mile delivery initiatives.

Prabhu Ram

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The U.S. is moving in the right direction by more publicly engaging with Taiwan and supporting it. But it needs to bolster its deterrence against a PRC use of force, on Taiwan, the U.S. should engage the CCP in private diplomacy to outline the political and military costs it would face if it uses force against Taiwan. It should be told that there is no surer way to Taiwan de jure independence than CCP aggression.

Dan Blumenthal

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

At the end of the day, economics talk and jobs talk, i truly believe we're going to see some very meaningful and important movement coming out of this as states and governors look for a way to bolster their economy.

Jessica Billingsley

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I can see them scooping those up for pennies on the dollar and using them to bolster their offerings.

Nucleus Research analyst Daniel Elman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This legislation is urgently needed to bolster the economy, provide cash injections and liquidity and stabilize financial markets to get us through a difficult and challenging period in the economy facing us right now.

Larry Kudlow

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The study is important because it shows that when economic opportunities collapse, it not only has consequences for people's economic wellbeing but it might adversely affect their health too, economic opportunity matters for our health, and as the forces that are shifting economic opportunities for people are continuing to evolve, we have to think about how policies can both make people resilient -- from a health sense -- to the negative changes that might happen, and we also have to think about what types of policies on the economic side may actually give people opportunities, which may also bolster their health.

Atheendar Venkataramani

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Considering the fact that North Korea said the 7-minute test conducted last night was to bolster the strategic nuclear deterrence, the test would likely be related to ICBMs, which North Korea considers a strategic weapon to defend North Korea from adversaries including the United States, north Korea is close to issuing an ultimatum toward United States to come to the negotiating table with new calculations or to return to developing nuclear weapons.

Koh Yu-hwan

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The net effect should bolster the credibility of Timothy Heath deterrent power in the region, it also makes partnership with the US less of a risk, as these investments demonstrate the Timothy Heath commitment to the region.

Timothy Heath

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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