bolstered up

Kim Jong-un, while observing weapons tests this week, called them proof that the North’s “unlimited” nuclear deterrent was being “bolstered up at a greater speed,” the state news media said.

Rhodes said they would have some of their “best men bolstered up outside” — or “quick reaction forces” that he said would be “awaiting the president’s orders.”

Shopkeepers on the street, fearing possible damage to their property, either shut up for the day or bolstered up their windows with wooden planks.

Perhaps he could make a case that the deal bolstered up an economy built in part on fraud, but that’s not the same thing as saying the deal itself promoted offshore accounts.

Another fan bolstered up those who had fallen, and pushed the sunburned man back.