Hospital chiefs have dipped into capital reserves to prop up an ailing bank balance. |
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So wittingly or not, these corporations are helping to prop up a government notorious for its sheer awfulness and brutality. |
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It is reckoned that emigrants sent home the equivalent of 2 billion which helped to prop up our ailing economy. |
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A lot of communities either try to prop up their long-established economic pillars or, failing that, they try to attract something big and new. |
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He was siphoning off funds from the post office to prop up his flagging retail business, Croydon Crown Court heard. |
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More recently we have relied on consumer spending to prop up the economy during the bust. |
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The changes are simply a stopgap measure to prop up a program drowning in red ink. |
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As it was, she had a thin, lumpy wool cloak, riddled with holes despite its distinct, musty smell of mothballs, to prop up her head upon. |
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Steve and his girlfriend Amy busied themselves with a cheesecake to prop up the just-picked blackberries and raspberries from the garden. |
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All that did was prop up the company that never made much commercial success anyway for a few more years, enriching a few people on the way. |
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This cash is given to farmers across the EU to help prop up their businesses through massive subsidies. |
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Lace locks cinch and secure four mini-poles that prop up the roomy corners. |
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And is it really the business of government to prop up the ancient memorials of a bygone era? |
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If you can't reach the floor, use a pillow or bolster to prop up your feet. |
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The first step is to prop up the fire-damaged building with safety scaffolding. |
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In case anyone needs reminding what happened, a ne'er-do-well customer of the bank had run out of credit to prop up his ailing business. |
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And then let us resolve that never again will we send the precious young blood of this country to die trying to prop up a corrupt military dictatorship abroad. |
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There are no genuine trade unions, apart from those that prop up the regime. |
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They renewed my hope that our profession has not sunk completely into a morass of infotainment journalism that serves to prop up corporate ownership and pop culture. |
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After a week and a half of catching up on sleep and drinking enough wine to prop up the economy, we begin thinking about pushing on to the island of Faial. |
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You can no longer rely on his ineptitude to prop up your fragile ego. |
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She accused regional publishers of targeting BBC funds to prop up ailing businesses they have run into the ground. |
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Temporarily prop up the two end trusses on a level, flat surface. |
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Angela Merkel called talk of a possible coalition with the Greens a phantasm in order to prop up her ailing government. |
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The fact that those members would collude to prop up that totally corrupt government is a total affront. |
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If it is based on protectionism and intended to prop up lame ducks, there is bound to be a clash. |
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To ask others to prop up your ego or to function as a ventriloquist's dummy for your prejudices is to waste their time as well as your own. |
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Of the £1.2 billion that Ericsson is stumping up, telent must set aside £675m to prop up the pension fund. |
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Britain is recruiting far and wide to prop up its rundown national health system, from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, China, and the Philippines. |
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It was introduced for the most callous reasons, to prop up a government so it could cling to power. |
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Intoxication: Move the victim into the fresh air and prop up to a half-sitting position. |
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You may need more pillows to prop up your upper body, in this case to allow for easier breathing. |
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The prominent groups that are allowed to exist merely help to prop up the military. |
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It will continue its efforts to prop up stability on the ground and assist the local communities concerned. |
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Nor do we advocate policies to prop up ailing companies, staving off necessary structural adjustment in industries which come under pressure. |
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If the meal is interrupted, do not prop up your cutlery on the edge of your plate. |
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It is understood that it is not in Canada's interest to simply prop up the industry in an attempt to maintain the status quo. |
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As the economy has unraveled over the past three years, managers desperate to prop up profits have been beating the bushes for new ways to cut costs. |
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The government used to prop up prices by paying farmers to keep land fallow, setting floor prices for some commodities and building stock reserves. |
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Scottish Saltires prop up the table but Yorkshire and Kent are just above them with 20 points each and whoever loses tonight will sink even deeper into the mire. |
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An important enabler of this abuse is the shrugs of the untouched, whose rising shoulders prop up the toxic world. |
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Even the best underwriters can't prop up a sluggish stock indefinitely. |
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They see themselves being set up as a sacrifice for a U.S. policy meant to prop up Iraq. |
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And the business of science, medicine, and faith itself is to restore or at least to prop up hope, that most complex vapor. |
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She is still a very adjectival writer, quick to assert rather than demonstrate, and thus reliant on basic verbs to prop up her voluptuously visual descriptions. |
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Their uniform of choice this season appears to be, for ladies, a pashmina wrapped around the neck tightly enough to prop up one's chin, worn with the skimpiest vest top. |
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LeDonne also briefly describes the use of economic policy to prop up Petrine grand strategy, through the creation of a military-industrial complex in the early 18th century. |
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While the ECB is expected to keep interest rates unchanged for the time being, there are rumors that some of the emergency measures taken last year to prop up the currency could be removed. |
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However, in Scotland the circuit of ceilidhs and festivals helped prop up traditional music. |
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It is just as absurd to contribute to a tourist industry that is helping prop up a regime where violation of human rights is the order of the day. |
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Why are we, westerners a long way from home, fighting in Afghanistan to prop up an elected government against Islamofascist guerrillas? |
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In spite of their many common interests, Moscow cannot afford to prop up states as they become increasingly despotic, for the risk of breakdown and consequent ripple effects are too dangerous. |
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We have got to the point where the efforts of staff to prop up the system are no longer enough to keep the system afloat. |
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The tentpole movie is an attraction popular and exploitable enough to prop up the entire moviegoing tent for several weeks or even months. |
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The economy is the issue dominating the U. S. presidential elections: how to bail out the capitalists at the working people's expense to prop up an outmoded system. |
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In many countries unions prop up the left. |
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Tanya and Max are horrified on Monday to discover Lauren's collection, which is big enough to prop up the Leaning Tower of Pisa. |
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Corinthian columns prop up the bulging roof. |
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In 1962 Mali issued its own nonconvertible currency, although Keita entered into monetary negotiations with the French in 1967 to prop up a sagging economy. |
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Those rules prop up an outdated and exploitative system. |
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The fact that an ailing firm is located in an assisted area does not, however, justify a permissive approach to aid for restructuring: in the medium to long term it does not help a region to prop up companies artificially. |
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The institutions that prop up the rule of law provide, among other things, protection against human rights violations and redress for those whose rights have been violated. |
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The single currency also dropped against the Japanese yen and British pound after European leaders sought to prop up Greece with words of support at a summit on Thursday, but failed to make concrete pledges. |
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Justin, fiance of ex-Girls Aloud star Kimberley Walsh, 33, had to prop up sozzled JB as The Voice presenter Marvin rang to locate their driver. |
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Six EU governments have already had to step in to prop up financial institutions, dispelling hope the crisis would be contained in the United States. |
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It was interesting to watch the photo op in Lethbridge where so many cabinet ministers were trying to prop up the Liberal candidate and trying to get him elected in Lethbridge when he has no chance. |
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A lesser electioneer could hand half the party's Scottish seats in Westminster to the SNP, which in turn could help prop up a new Tory-led government. |
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Fear that the program might go poof for boomers may spur enough political will to do something other than prop up the Ponzi scheme. |
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It is known as Keynesian economics, spending to prop up the government, put it on the demand side, and end up with stagflation, higher unemployment rates, lower productivity, no growth, no future, no plan. |
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Various types of stimulus packages to prop up economic growth, as well as targeted programmes for the benefit of the vulnerable and poor, who are hardest hit by the crisis, are highlighted. |
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In addition, the location of these urban areas close to the Syrian border have allowed Al Qaeda to benefit from a regular influx of arms and jihadists to prop up their ranks and capabilities. |
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Try using a phone book to prop up the table where the foot is missing. |
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Under Moyes, United have fewer home points than Norwich City and Hull City, with their count of 18 goals the same as Fulham and Cardiff City, who prop up the table. |
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What it is, is a series of self-aggrandizing pornographic daydreams intended to prop up the sagging legend of its author as an icon of below-14th Street duende. |
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The dad-of-three, of Birmingham Road, Sutton Coldfield, took bookings from his victims but used their cash to prop up his ailing package holiday firm, Russian Gateway Ltd. |
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