Sentences with phrase «shored up against»

It is as if we contemporary American Catholics take the patrimony for granted, forgetting that it must be constantly shored up against the erosion of history.

It's becoming more important than ever that healthcare organizations and systems shore up against these threats.

Not exact matches

The long - delayed Keystone XL project has pitted environmentalists, who worry about spills, against industry, who say the project will shore up discounted Canadian oil prices and attract investment to Canada's energy sector.

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.»

«The federal government can, and must, act to shore up our defense against this deadly drug and help save lives.»

During downturns, marketers must balance efforts to pare costs and shore up short - term sales against investments in long - term brand health.

The article discussed several Chinese companies that are trying to shore up their stock prices by ensuring employees against losses if they buy stock in the company.

A number of Chinese companies are trying to shore up their stock prices with programs that encourage employees to buy shares and ensuring them against losses.

In early 2002, then - President George W. Bush imposed steel tariffs of up to 30 percent on imports of steel in an effort to shore up domestic producers against low - cost imports.

Shoring up the fragments of the past against the future's ruin (and savoring all the riches that in fact remain), the autobiographer comforts us with the record of a continuous self and a coherent history.

Woolworths shows retailers who want to shore up their defences against Amazon will need to spend up.

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.

If the unit can shore things up, it can have another big day against a limited Panthers» offense.

Stanford's perimeter, which has had difficulty against quick and aggressive teams such as Tennessee and Connecticut in the last two years, should be shored up this season.

Sending on Coq and Chambers to shore up a defence at home against QPR is a joke.

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

Le Coq, through hard work, self belief and a no - nonsense attitude has shored up our midfield and really hit some heights, also against the so called «big teams».

I can't say that wholesale changes are the right move for Marquette, but the Golden Eagles are going to need to learn from their issues against New Mexico and shore up things where needed.

Liverpool have room to stumble in the league — as do United and Spurs — and while a win against Everton would be nice for both further shoring up their top four chances and for pride, it's far from necessary.

The pieces she gathers have been polished by the waves against the sand, dulling the original colours and giving her jewellery a natural pastel palette that conjures up images of tentatively licking ice - cream on wind - swept shores.

Our requested crib was quite rickety and its replacement proved no better, so we shored it up and pushed our bed against it and the wall for extra security.

We managed to shore it up ourselves and slept with our bed pushed against it for extra security.

The next week, I spent a bit of time on Amazon shoring up our defenses against the sand and sun (Amazon Prime is my friend).

«They're asking us to help shore up a piece of Obamacare that we had fixed in the American Health Care Act that they lobbied against.»

Labour's Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said the Bank of England may have to intervene to shore up the pound, which lost 3 % within moments of the first result showing a strong result for Leave in Sunderland and fell as much as 6.5 % against the euro.

This has led some to suggest the government ignored dissent among the Lords to shore up Commons» support, with last night's defeat marking only the third time peers have voted against a government order.

Prominent Cabinet members have been accused of «rank hypocrisy» after apparently campaigning against government policy to shore up support in their own constituencies.

Cynthia Nixon, who is waging a Democratic primary campaign against Cuomo, criticized the measure as a cynical effort to shore up progressive support.

«Now of course, things have turned against them, the positive campaign being run by the Yes side has raised so much ground, then all of a sudden we have two things: an increase in scaremongering and a calling - in of big organisations to help them out, and then secondly we have the last - minute desperate visits to shore things up.

State lawmakers representing communities along the south shore of Lake Ontario are lining up against a plan to regulate water levels in the lake, and in the St. Lawrence River system.

The White House has moved to add events for the president to help shore up embattled Democrats, hoping to create what the N.Y. Times called a «firewall» in surgically chosen areas, like some Northeast districts, to protect against what is expected to be a rough Election Day for Democrats.

In the days since actor and progressive activist Cynthia Nixon indicated she might want to run against Andrew Cuomo in a Democratic primary for New York governor, Cuomo has made a number of public appearances and taken several steps to shore up his political base.

«We need to shore up our coastal defenses against future storms,» Cuomo said in a statement.

To shore up the specifics, researchers are now scrambling to provide basic data on just how fast the delta is sinking and why, and how best to guard against or even stop it.

Their recording turned up the sounds of the iceberg being battered to bits against the Antarctic shore over a couple days in October 2005.

And the National Sea Grant College program pays for university - based efforts to shore up coastal economies and communities against the ravages of climate change and extreme weather.

This has become especially useful in the battle against osteoporosis, and it's a good way to shore up your bone strength even as you get older.

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.

The tragedy of it all is that the picture will be more ballyhooed not for the arrival of Kim on our shores, but for the return to the action genre of one Arnold Schwarzenegger (Expendables cameos notwithstanding), here cast as a soft - around - the - middle aging lawman in the Stallone - in - Copland mold who stands up against a cabal of snarling baddies in defense of the AARP and the NRA in one fell, sometimes ironic, swoop.

If liberals continue to break against the standards as they have in his neighbor New York, opposing the Common Core could win him more votes on that end of the spectrum while simultaneously helping him shore up his base on the right.

While engines and chassis are the same, a more granite - like exterior and super lux interior look to shore up sales against Detroit competition...

Jaguar became the first European automaker to shore up its defenses against Infiniti and Lexus.

Not so now; the banks are licking their wounds, and letting profits grow by financing at lower rates, and sucking in bailout cash to shore up their balance sheets against future real estate lending losses.

Though most of your pet's Vitamin C should come from their hamster seed mix, adding in small amounts of fresh fruits and vegetables can help boost their intake, which may help shore up their immune system against infection.

Wake up and step out onto your private terrace to hear the relaxing sound of the ocean's waves lapping against the white sandy shore.

The 70 or so somewhat familiar villagers and travel companions I have accumulated blend in with the more alien faces of fresh forlorn travelers sloshing up against the shores.

Wake up with the waves lapping against the shore in the cove and grab some breakfast before plunging into the waters once again to explore the amazing fringing reef and what lies beneath.

Greenlight gives the Steam community a chance to vote on games they'd like to see on the digital distribution platform, and the latest changes are designed to shore up the service against several criticisms levelled against it.

The idea of returning home tells the various stories during the Apartheid struggle of men who had left their family homes in search of labor, migrating to the mines or cities, or even political exiles who had taken a pact to leave the shores of South Africa as a means to take up arms against a brutalist regime.

(Surely the presence or absence of glacial ice doesn't greatly affect the «piling up» of sea ice against the shore — or terminal ice shelf — by persistent wind and current out of the North?)