Sentences with phrase «of shoring up»

Writing has a way of shoring up romantic emotions.

In the meantime, besides the problem of shoring up psychotherapy's wobbling scientific credentials (it never had many to begin with) or expanding the market for it, there's the little matter — as old as the field itself — of coherently defining what psychotherapy is.

'' [A] n attorney may not claim protection of the anti-SLAPP statute for publishing statements about an adversary at will, in hopes of shoring up his or her own position, attracting potential clients, or otherwise gaining a tactical advantage in an ongoing legal proceeding, even when that proceeding has, as here, attracted a good deal of public and governmental interest.

There are many schools that sit just outside the priority school window that have been harmed in the pursuit of shoring up their staff.

Zombie makes this material very much his own in that way: where the original was surprising in its treasuring of childhood, this version is obsessed, as each of Zombie's pictures has been, with the ultimate tragedy of shoring up dykes against the rage of inexorable change.

Most of us recognize the importance of shoring up our weaknesses, but not all of us are really sure what those weaknesses really are.

Thus far — perhaps in a misguided belief that traditionalists and Eurosceptics have nowhere else to go — all effort has gone into pursuing the so - called centre ground at the expense of shoring up «the core vote».

Politicians openly advocate spending billions of pounds on a successor to Trident in the name of shoring up Britain's future power and influence but there are few willing to recommend increased expenditure on attracting and integrating migrants for the same purpose.

Instead of shoring up their Rust Belt «firewall», her staff put time and energy into aspirational states like Arizona.

3) The entire mandate by the state bothers me, in fact, because while I support the idea of shoring up the nutrition of low - income children (who as you point out are the likely beneficiaries of the policy), I DO N'T support the idea of intervening in what parents choose to feed their children.

Thankfully though, Mertesacker was doing a similar job of shoring up his back line.

Lion apparently views its WCB stake as a means of shoring up its position and stemming the bleeding in a price - driven business line with high private label penetration.

There is a general assumption that Murray Gouburn fell victim to Treasurer Joe Hockey's decision to expedite Saputo as a way of shoring up his government's pro-business credentials before the shock decision to block Archer Daniels Midland's $ 3 billion takeover of GrainCorp.

Being a transmitter of the important values of the culture is more than a way of shoring up weak inner controls on antisocial behavior.

Towards the conclusion of his landmark book After Virtue, the Scottish philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre observes that the death rattle of the Roman Empire began when men and women of good will «turned aside from the task of shoring up the Roman imperium» which had become socially decadent and culturally diseased.

On Tuesday, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May called for a general election on June 8th, with the aim of shoring up more conservative support in parliament.

I think that's great that you kind of recognize where you needed to kind of shore up your knowledge and then you went out and you did those things.

Not exact matches

The administration's latest move to shore up the U.S. trade deficit could have unintended consequences on businesses that account for the lion's share of American jobs.

«The genius about the artificial island is that you could set up a lot of wind turbines, offshore, out of sight, but still use near shore technologies which are cheaper,» Energinet's Hanne Storm Edlefsen told CNBC's Sustainable Energy.

As a kid growing up on the shores of Baie Sainte - Marie, Louis noticed his own father put goémon de roche (the Acadian term for the seaweed harvested from the rocky shoreline) on the family's vegetable garden.

But with an airdrop, he added «almost 100 % of the source term -LSB-...] ends up on the land» — so a salted weapon blown up over a target would «be many, many orders of magnitude worse than the fallout produced by an underwater detonation» several miles from shore.

Little wonder that Eritreans currently make up a disproportionate number of the African refugees landing on European shores.

And, again, this is the core example of the evolution of environmental bullshit: a long history of industry creation of lies; conservative funding of think - tanks, front groups and the echo chamber; the development of an ideological imperative of denialism; and then the necessity of completely groundless bullshit to shore up the lies.

A return to the conditions of the late 1980s would rejuvenate Japan and help shore up the rest of Asia.

The submarine sank, Madsen escaped, and Wall's dismembered body washed up days later on the shores of Denmark's capital, Copenhagen, the police said.

The reasoning behind all of these actions — shoring up streaming rights, decreasing losses, etc. — point to Spotify potentially planning an initial public offering for sometime next year, as has been reported.

Her robust criticism of those default rumors has helped shore up markets over the past 24 hours or so.

GE said Tuesday after a review of its GE Capital insurance portfolio that it will take a $ 6.2 billion after - tax charge for the fourth quarter of 2017 and expects to contribute $ 15 billion over the next seven years to shore up the portfolio's reserves.

Specifically, she has called for shoring up spending for early childhood education and capping families» costs for it at no more than 10 percent of their income.

You need to decide if they do the rest of their job well and if so, partner them with someone else who can help shore up their deficiency.

There were three cameras in the studio but nobody manning them, so viewers channel surfing on the far shores of the city's cable system were treated to static shots of the whole panel behind a plain wood veneer desk — no cuts from one speaker to the next, and however ready the guests might have been, no close - up was available.

In Colorado's Weld County, home to Peppler's farm and more than 19,000 active oil and gas wells, some officials see selling unneeded portions of their allotments from the Colorado River as a way to shore up city budgets.

More recently Schwartz has been making a bigger push into London, U.K.. It's been a challenging market, but he may have another big name to help shore up that part of the business: Nigel Wright, the prime minister's former chief of staff, is returning to Onex to spearhead that part of the business.

Last November, BlackRock (blk) cut fees on seven of its ETFs to shore up its leading position in the business.

The full amount of money needed to shore up Spain's banks is unlikely to be known until September, after individual banks have been examined.

Gold miner Troy Resources has launched a $ 40.7 million capital raising to shore up its balance sheet and fund further development of its Karouni mine in Guyana.

Malaysia's GST of 6 percent, introduced in April to shore up government revenue, has proved unpopular and slowed consumer spending.

As the centre of economic power continues eastward, the West will likely need to shore up its alliances to stay competitive.

Advocates counter that the higher the concentration of rooftop solar systems in a neighborhood, the less a utility has to spend on distribution to shore up grid reliability.

Oil majors and large independent drillers need to shore up their asset portfolios after several years of underinvestment during a price slump, analysts say.

But the move also sets up a battle with environmental groups and coastal governors opposed to drilling off the shores of states from California to North Carolina.

Advisors of the boomer generation are grooming — and quizzing — Gen Y prospects in an attempt to revitalize and shore up the industry.»

It also involves shoring up the weak aspects of the culture and simultaneously fixing the broken parts — changing the culture.

The best thing you can do is take 10 - 20 minutes at the end of each work day to shore up your loose ends.

If the Trump campaign can focus on this message — instead of racism, immigration, and «Obama created ISIS» — he can shore up millennial support.

Meanwhile, lawmakers on Capitol Hill have failed to pass any significant legislation to shore up election security vulnerabilities ahead of the 2018 midterms.

In the absence of positive developments that shore up investor sentiment, such as a resumption of growth or rapid progress in achieving fiscal consolidation objectives, neither of which is likely in the current environment, the government is likely to become increasingly constrained with regard to the terms under which it is able to refinance maturing debt.

In a recent edition of the company's newsletter, he pledged himself to shoring up the retained - earnings account against the «off chance that the company runs into hard times.»

A photo of a young refugee child washed up on a European shore inspires millions of Facebook users to donate millions of dollars on the day the photo appears.

JOHANNESBURG, April 12 - Troubled South African retailer Steinhoff, raised 3.75 billion rand from the sale of a 6 percent stake in Steinhoff Africa Retail, another step in its efforts to shore up its finances and pay down debt.