Sentences with phrase «of bolstering up»

The seats now feature slightly larger bolsters including a little bit of bolstering up front.

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Fielding says building the technology is the chief goal of Ripcord at this juncture, and the company plans on ramping up the hiring of engineers to bolster its already 100 - strong headcount.

«Neither shall we flinch even an inch from the road to bolstering up the nuclear forces chosen by ourselves, unless the hostile policy and nuclear threat of the U.S. against the DPRK are fundamentally eliminated.»

The problem is starting to reek of the mortgage crisis, when banks made oodles by selling bad loans to hedge funds that were layering on leverage to bolster returns — just before the loan market dried up and banks were stuck with the bad loans themselves.

Dan Gilbert, CEO of Quicken Loans, for example, moved his company's headquarters to downtown Detroit to bolster the population numbers and help jumpstart the local economy, then provided further sustenance to the commercial ecosystem by opening a new start - up incubator and venture capital firm.

«The bottom line is that Volvo has really bolstered its position in the midsize - crossover segment and now has a lineup of vehicles that can match up segment by segment with everything in the luxury realm,» Matt wrote in his review.

A separate report on Monday, however, showed factory activity in New York state accelerating in July, bolstering the view of economists that growth was likely to pick up soon.

Airbnb followed up Chesky's tweet with a formal letter to the City of Los Angeles with a report that outlines how Airbnb can help «extend the capacity for the city» by bolstering L.A.'s hospitality industry with its own network of housing options, from shared rooms to short - term house rentals.

Revenue of $ 2.9 billion was up 24 % from the prior year, bolstered by gains in subscription software sales, and adjusted earnings per share of 35 cents a share were up 25 %.

On Friday, U.S. President Barack Obama authorized the deployment of up to 1,500 more American troops to bolster Iraqi forces, including into Anbar province, where fighting with Islamic State militants has been fierce.

TORONTO — Loblaw Companies Ltd. (TSX: L) plans to unveil about 700 Joe Fresh stores in the U.S. next year as Canada's largest grocery chain works to ramp up sales of its hip fashion line to help bolster earnings that dropped by 19 per cent in its most recent quarter.

Bolstered by the ubiquity of YouTube as well as search, advertising and all its other tools, Google regained the throne and doesn't seem likely to give it up anytime soon.

(Reuters)- McDonald's Corp said on Wednesday it plans to cut the number of items on its U.S. menus and use fewer ingredients in food as it moves to speed up service, bolster sales and offer consumers personalized options to compete better with Subway and Chipotle Mexican Grill.

Last month, MetLife announced it would bolster reserves by as much as $ 575 million to make up for unrecorded pension liabilities as part of its pension risk transfer and group annuity business to group annuitants who went missing.

Using foreign exchange reserves to support the currency — spending dollars to buy up renminbi — means the central bank is effectively taking billions of renminbi out of circulation, preventing it from flowing through the economy, where it can bolster growth.

WSJ reports that just a few days ago Tesla secured up to $ 750 million in additional funding — a small bolster against the company's current cash burn, which blew through $ 500 million in the first quarter of 2015 alone.

It logged a third week of gains, up by 0.5 %, bolstered by geopolitical tension in the Middle East and concerns about supply disruptions in key oil - producing nations, such as Venezuela.

To bolster stores that remain, management is targeting 40 % of its sales coming from Macy's exclusive brands and merchandise from product partners, up from about 29 % now.

With Canada's friendly competitors ready to deploy a full range of tools to maximize their economic influence in the Asia Pacific region, Canada has to step - up to remain competitive and relevant to secure and bolster Canada's market position in Asia.

BuzzFeed is arguing that the Daniels affair helps bolster the legitimacy of some of the claims in the dossier — specifically, that Cohen met with Russian officials in Prague and tried to pay them off to cover up the relationship between the Trump campaign and the people with ties to the Kremlin.

Those remarks could end up bolstering an obstruction - of - justice case against the president.

Besides the established fact that legends have a way of springing up about great public figures, there must also have been an almost irresistible urge on the part of some to bolster the claim that Jesus was indeed the Messiah, especially since his behavior was m some ways most unmessianic (see p. 97).

You remove all temptations that attracted them before, block the holes they already made, and bolster up any other possible place of weakness where they could chew their way back in.

The old Enlightenment ideas have been bolstered up and everything is seen as aimless, in terms of cause and effect; deeds replace values.

In the case of dogs, we also created craven suck ups bred to alleviate our loneliness and bolster our self - esteem.

@Chuckles «Own up to the fact that what you yourself has posted shows that men like Stalin or Mao didn't kill in the name of atheism or to expand atheism, but murdered to consolidate their own power and bolster communism.»

The paradigm of Emmaus is so significant in this matter but often misused by catechists schooled in the approach of Our Faith Story to bolster up a false approach to catechetics and religious education.

Propping up the lunatic fringe of an opposing ideology in an attempt bolster your own position is dubious at best.

In this way, a certain style of liberalism in the media ends up unconsciously working against liberalism — it bolsters a stereotype about religious people that in the end harms liberalism and ignores a large part of the religious community.

Why do you keep bringing up failed experiments and flwed science to try to bolster your belief in the extremely improbable tiniest slight of a possiblity that your version of a god exists.

It is a nice question, of course, whether a good deal of the teaching was based on these texts, or whether the texts were discovered, after careful searching, to bolster up ideas that had slowly gained acceptance.

Mingana comments «The existence in about AD 390 in the shores of the Arabian sea of a monastery under the name of Thomas is highly interesting, and constitutes the weightiest proof of all those which have so far been addressed to bolster up the historicity of the mission of Thomas.

Easterly tells a grim story of the selling of delusions, of catastrophes, cover - ups, and corruption resulting in the bolstering of despotic regimes.

A decadent, crisp and chewy chocolate batter, bolstered up with chunks of white chocolate and semi-sweet chocolate chunks or chips.

Australia's biggest dairy company Murray Goulbourn is beefing up production of baby formula to help feed a seemingly insatiable Asian appetite and bolster its global presence.

The Spo's saw a large influx of freshers due to the high number of people leaving at the end of last season, and these new faces have really stepped up to bolster the team.

They were without many of their regular starters on Sunday Night but with that came an opportunity for others to step up and for them to bolster the roster a bit..

The new head coach at Baylor, Bill Beall, hopes to bolster a defense that gave up point totals of — duck — 48, 47, 47, 40 and 35, to name a few.

Missouri: Missouri missed a great chance to pick up a third straight road victory to bolster its NCAA Tournament body of work.

Arsenal eventually switched their focus to former Deportivo La Coruna forward Lucas Perez in their bid to bolster their attacking options, but with Alexis Sanchez currently being deployed up front, there could be an argument that Wenger still needs to address that area of his squad.

Him, Reus and Aubameyang are complete savages, and breaking them up would just bolster Bayern's already rock solid position on top of the bundesliga even more.

But you can at least bolster the bullpen and make a gaggle of deadline deals to build up the minor - league depth.

No need to freak out, but I still fully expect help from the minors (either by way of trade value, or call up) to bolster high leverage relief pitching, so we don't over use Peacock, Devo, etc..

@ 3rdmanjw You use your opinion, bolstered by your disappointment, backed up with a large dose of your bias coupled with the club history.

dzeko - this would most likely be a last minute body in to bolster the attack for next season a loan would be better in this case than buying him, he would serve well as a back up giroud through the season and he has a knack of scoring against smaller teams could be worth extra 15 - 20 goals a season might be the difference at the end of season

And will you stop protecting 8 million a year AW his messed up badly last two seasons by not bolstering with necesery players, and explain to me when even most people who only have a small understanding of football was saying our defence is thin he AW goes and loans out our RB Jenkinson to Westham who is ahed of us becouse of their great defensive work.

Antonio Conte is said to be a huge fan of Pellegri, while Man Utd are linked as they could look to bolster their options up front with the Italian starlet likely to sit below Romelu Lukaku in the pecking order as he learns his trade and develops his game.

NBC is generally held up in positive contrast to the recent CBS critiques, and their addition of David Feherty, taken from CBS and now full - time with Golf Channel / NBC, will only bolster their current popularity.

Chelsea striker Michy Batshuayi could be the target of a fresh loan bid from West Ham United this summer as they look to bolster their options up front.

Both Chelsea and United are desperate to bolster their attacking options, and according to The Daily Mail, it could be the latter who win the race to snap up the Belgian international as he chooses between a Mourinho reunion or a second crack of the whip at Stamford Bridge.