scaffold

The thief, an expert in alarm systems, climbed scaffolding erected for the restoration of the museum to make off with the masterpiece.

Across the region—from Cairo to Doha and from Ankara to Ramallah—the ideological scaffolding that has long propped up extremist movements is crumbling.

Many are new, companies producing numbers today might not stick around, and many rely on government figures as scaffolding.

The research team, led by veterinary scientists at the University of Surrey and the APHA, developed the new vaccine using a tried and tested "scaffold".

Her husband was somewhere inside, setting up scaffolding.