Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

Usage examples of supporting.

Sir Robert Peel gave notice on the 7th of July, that, on the motion for committing the bill, he would move an instruction to the committee to divide it into two bills, that he might have an opportunity of rejecting altogether those parts of the bill which suppressed the Protestant churches of eight hundred and sixty parishes, appropriating their revenues to purposes not immediately in connection with the interests of the established church, and of supporting those provisions in which he could concur.

The slender shafts supporting the arches are well grouped and contrasted.

On the one hand, he was conservative architecturally, preferring Gothic buttresses as a means of support, and his attempt to raise the buttresses of the tribunes may have been not only out of concern for visibility but also an attempt to use the tribunes and buttresses as supporting members for the dome.

Besides, I was supporting myself well enough by bike racing and some barnstorming at weekends.

Sitting rigidly upright in his chair, supporting himself with both hands, Felix Blau regarded him imploringly.

Alan had dumped Bonner and leaned over him, supporting himself on the wall, gasping.

There would be no hope of supporting the paratroops at Brekke now, no hope of the quick breakthrough that would carry the Soviets to victory.

For railway bridges it commonly consists of cross girders, attached to or resting on the main girders, and longitudinal rail girders or stringers carried by the cross girders and directly supporting the sleepers and rails.

A drunken long shoreman is supporting himself on a sober longshoreman, he has designs on a salt herring, skin, bones, and.

The question then is, Can that gratification be found in supporting and in maintaining an edifice that has been erected by others?

Traces of an old roost: a scattering of frayed butts, toppled beer cans, empty matchbooks, an accumulation of names, dates, maledictions scratched into the supporting steelwork.

By the time he ran out of ridge Merel was already lowering herself on to the stable roof, supporting herself by clinging to the creaking guttering.

He felt Mongo supporting his weight, trying to keep his legs beneath him as they began to move.

They at any rate perceived that the vital fact concerning the new monophonic style was that the melody alone demanded individual independence, while the other parts could not, as in polyphony, ask for equal suffrage, but must sink themselves in the solid and concrete structure of the supporting chord.

Martha slowly waved a palm-leaf fan, supporting her weary weight on outspread fingers laid against the head of the bed.