Sentences with phrase «shore up your positions»

Canadian Tire announced it has an agreement to snap up the upscale Pro Hockey Life chain, a move aimed at further shoring up its position as the country's leading retailer of sporting goods.

The explanation clears the prime minister of wrongdoing, shoring up his position.

Instead you had to return to the evidence; immerse yourself in the arguments; revisit your principles; shore up your positions.

Bell tries to shore up his position by recounting the multiple places in which God restored people from a place of punishment to a position of grace.

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.

Traditional companies like Campbell have been struggling against a backdrop of shifting food preferences in markets all over the world, however, Campbell's is hoping the addition of Snyder's snacks brands will shore up its position in - store.

The question for Dell is whether he spends assets on say a back - up type to shore up the position now, or saves his ammunition to try find a long - term solution to slot next to Jrue.

Stephen Jones mentions you can use an area where you have too many guys that can make the 53 to shore up another position when talking about taking a receiver early.

As the debate was under way in the Commons the prime minister moved to shore up his position amid anger in the party over allegations that Lord Feldman, the Tory co-chairman, described grassroots activists as «mad swivel - eyed loons».

In a move to shore up the position of the beleaguered Liberal Democrats, the cabinet will endorse the deputy prime minister's plans for the upper chamber to be overwhelmingly composed of elected members.

As you will read in this month's cover story, a good counter offensive is key for pet stores, which must constantly reassess their businesses for any signs of weakness and shore up their position by making improvements in areas such as category management, and staff training and retention.

But that was minor compared to the unexpected way in which an offhand comment by David Zwirner was blown up into a confused discussion of how to shore up the position of smaller galleries in the art market.

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

Back - of - the - envelope calculations (described below) suggest that as little as a million dollars could be used to shore up futures positions and influence the auction market.

CVS's move to buy Aetna would shore up the drugstore giant's position as Amazon looms as a threat to the pharmacy business.

The team signed B.J. Daniels from the Seattle Seahawks practice squad to shore up depth at the position.

Arsenal have so many CAMs and need to shore up other positions first.

I am sure we can shore up the SS position next year when Mike Adams rides off into the sunset with his first Super Bowl ring.

If you were to transport yourself to the El Paso of 1949 and take up a position as far south as possible — by the north shore of the Rio Grande, in a netherland not wholly of the U.S. but not of Mexico either — you'd be a cutoff throw from Bowie High School, the only public secondary school in the U.S. then dedicated to educating Mexican - Americans.

I'm sure the board is aware of the issues that has caused significant division eg failure to shore up the defense, dm and striker positions.

Seems a major risk for a position we need shored up and another key player on the injury list would be horrible in his position.

In fact, Utah is actively trying to shore up the point guard position before Hayward makes his decision, per Wojnarowski, in hopes of keeping Hayward in the city that drafted him.

But the Christie robocall does help Hayworth shore up a potential trouble spot for her when it comes to the Democratic push that she would support turning back federal spending for disaster relief that isn't off set by cuts, a position of top Republican lawmaker Eric Cantor.

It is being claimed by some in Westminster that a deal has been done between Mr Blair and Mr Ashdown in a bid to shore up the Liberal Democrat leader's position while averting a full - scale civil war on the Labour benches.

For the suffragettes and suffragists, victory in 1918 was just the start of a century of having to shore up their status and justify their position.

Clinton said that new revenue is needed to shore up Social Security and openly mused about lifting the cap on income subjected to Social Security taxes — a position championed by Sanders.

My opponent, who is the incumbent in this race, has been in a position to clean up the waste mounds that have accumulated; some along the shore of Onondaga Lake.»

I think that Cameron should stand firm on the centre ground and dig his tanks into position, leaving Brown to scramble around on the far right and left trying to shore up his vote in the Labour heartlands.

When Google said it would acquire Motorola Mobility for $ 12.4 billion, it was applauded as a bold move to shore up its patent position.

There's no better example of how this franchise positions itself as being superior to something it takes an active, obliging role in shoring up.

The more than $ 900 million spending plan adds a number of positions including some for special education, one area the district has been concentrating on shoring up.

As losses are realized by banks, some will have to shore up their capital positions, and to do that, they will have to ratchet back lending.

Just by strengthening your techniques from paddling to pop - ups and shoring up and technical flaws in weight distribution on your board to your arms not being in a proper position, you will see your surfing level boost exponentially in a very short time.

Bluesiam is probably the southernmost place to dine with the sand nearby, though it is actually positioned up on the rocky shore.

Good Weather has positioned pieces of a boat dock on the shore as platforms and partitions with an exhibition that considers the gallery's relationship with this geological edge and is caught up in the physiological effects from the current emotional deluge to the political crisis that we find ourselves in, with work by Joshua Abelow, Lauren Cherry and Max Springer, Guy Church, Alika Cooper, Jenny Gagalka, Hanna Hur, Ian Jones, Matthew Kerkhof, James Payne, Jerry Phillips, Alexandros Lindsay, Caitlin MacBride, Martha Mysko, Daniel John Roberts, Rebecca Fin Simonetti, Mateo Tannatt, Wesley Taylor, Ezra Tessler, and John Zane Zappas.

A particular challenge is posed by the positioning of the gauges along the coasts, because coastal sea level can be affected by local effects such as the wind piling up water against the shore.

Firms are taking preemptive steps to shore up their financial positions.

'' [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.

Having seen 13 partners in New York, London, and across the Middle East defect to Latham & Watkins in the last two weeks, White & Case is busy trying to shore up its market position in those critical jurisdictions.

The question then becomes whether stalls in listing the new cryptocurrency are resource constraints that the new raise could help shore up, as the company is looking to fill many open positions.

«Knowledgeable investors hold on to their properties for at least five or six years, and if they're looking to their retirement, a lot longer than that,» says Timothy Kinzler, CIPS, CRS ®, an associate with Coldwell Banker Real Estate in Delray Beach, Fla. «Strong appreciation is helping households — both investors and those looking for a primary home to occupy — shore up their financial position, which is what homeownership's always been about.»

We've long supported reform of the Federal Housing Administration, and I have testified twice before Congress on the issue.Our position is clear — it's important to shore up the long - term solvency of FHA, but not at the expense of the consumers it was designed to serve.

Position them organically as though they've washed up on shore amongst coral and sand - beaten glass, as well as watery glazes and sea urchins for a super-chic stylised look.