Sentences with phrase «shored up as»

Inspected floors to be tiled resurfaced and shored up as needed to make them level prior to installation.

Thus, although one can not imagine Reinhardt feeling any sympathy for Josef Albers and the gregarious sunniness of his Homage to the Square, shored up as this long series was by the scientific positivism of his idea of visual research, it is nonetheless Albers's triumphant self - discipline and minimalist restriction, Albers's heritage of Bauhaus commitment to uncovering the donnees of perception, that provide a precedent for Reinhardt's black squares.

The Somerset Levels, the Humber estuary, the city of Oxford and Tonbridge in Kent are all due to have flood defences shored up as part of the plans.

Not exact matches

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.

Aspermont has announced plans to raise up to $ 10 million by offering shares to investors and converting debt, as it seeks to shore up its balance sheet.

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.

But as large companies shore up their security systems in response to high - profile data breaches, that means «the bad guys are moving down the food chain, where folks are not as prepared,» says Brian Casazza, CIO at Vistage, a training organization for small - and mid-sized businesses.

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.

If it works as planned, it could shore up the paper's print subscriber base and offer a small new revenue stream from digital - only readers.

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

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will aim to shore up U.S. ties and seek investment opportunities as the kingdom overhauls its oil - dependent economy.

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.

The opposition parties have panned the move as a reckless and desperate attempt to shore up votes ahead of the spring election.

Sears Holdings (shld) said on Thursday it had reached a deal to sell its popular Craftsman tool brand to Stanley Black & Decker (swk), its latest move in the last week or so to shore up its finances with urgently needed money as sales continue to collapse.

Nokia, which closed its 15.6 billion euro acquisition of Alcatel Lucent in January, is looking to stronger growth in fixed line equipment from the recently acquired business, as well as 900 million euros in cost savings through 2018 to help it shore up profits in the near - to medium - term.

Optimism over last week's summit to shore up the European Union (EU) is fading, as evidenced by the December 12 retreat both in stocks and the euro.

Managing that risk by recognizing and shoring up points of vulnerability is the difference between using data as a competitive advantage and being the victim of a catastrophic data loss.

Shoring up national security has long been a pillar of Republican orthodoxy, as has staunch opposition to gun control.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will underscore the U.S. partnership with Israel during a trip to the Middle East next week while seeking to shore up U.S. relations with the Arab world after President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

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.

Those changes are aimed at shoring up its important tire and auto parts business, as well as smoothing crucial relations with its powerful store owners and cutting costs, ahead of U.S. discounter Target Corp. opening its first Canadian stores in March.

Hence pay goes down on shore, as opposed to up.

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.

China's yuan, which has weakened in the last three years, is poised to extend the streak in 2017 as officials shepherd foreign reserves to shore up bad - loan - riddled banks.

The appointment is a key move for Uber that could help shore up confidence in the company both internally and externally as it fights to justify its $ 70 billion valuation by investors.

The Australian government is building undersea internet cables to the Solomon Islands and PNG as part of a push to shore up its influence in...

It is difficult to understand why the record burden of consumer debt will be impervious to a rising unemployment rate, particularly when companies are facing a substantial acceleration in wage inflation in recent months as they try to shore up profit margins - making substantial new layoffs inevitable.

When this happens, it could be a very difficult time for the pharmaceutical industry, which makes the time before the cliff all the more important as companies scramble to shore up their product lines and get their balance sheets in order before their products lose their patent protection [see also Is Your Biotech ETF A Leader Or Laggard?].

Recent revelations of funding deficiencies at FHA and spiking delinquency rates for many of the marginal borrowers in the program could spell trouble for FHA borrowers as additional efforts are undertaken to shore up FHA's finances.

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

However, there could be some positive news for the sector going ahead as the destruction caused by the recent hurricanes in the US could lead to higher vehicle sales in the near - term, thereby shoring up the industry somewhat.

NEW YORK (AP)-- U.S. stocks wavered Thursday and finished barely higher as an interest rate cut by the Bank of England, a move intended to shore up the British economy, wasn't enough to get investors out of their cautious mode.

Gold climbed 70 % from December 2008 to June 2011 as the Federal Reserve bought debt and held U.S. borrowing costs near zero percent in a bid to shore up economic growth.

In other words, financial institutions rely on the fiat currency - generating machine known as the central bank to shore up liquidity when times get tough.

The hope one might have once placed in comparative advantage global capitalism and the internet / cell - phone wiring of all, began to look increasingly hollow, as Walmarts filled with cheap Chinese goods, real jobs went missing, real skills became rare, and the internet became known not so much for an Army of Davids shoring up our common commitment to liberty, but for mobbish comment swarms, porn, The Social Network, diversion all - the - more addictive for being personally tailored (see: the fictional fat - slobs of Wall - E, or the perpetually downward phone - gaze of our «dumb» millennials), and unprecedented possibilities for spying, defamation, and demagogic manipulation for those with access to big data.

ISTM, that while we must do our best to shore up our own systems as much as we can, the underlying fact is that, everywhere, there are a few people who will deceive / destroy.

As the pious above chant of the God begotten of Light, the unfaithful faithful call out in ragged whispers their own stories of Inquisitions, of lost political battles at important councils of faith, of unjust executions in the name of the Christ and of excommunications to shore up power.

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.

But another reading seems equally plausible — that many sought to shore up their status as part of the «responsible middle - class» by underscoring the discrepancy between their own «fit» families and those of the underclass.

The willingness of President Bush (in his better moments) to spend money to shore up civil society — making it perhaps less necessary to spend money down the road, as the promise of the «ownership society» was fulfilled — was taken as an opportunity by those not invested in that «limited» project (I have in mind here both the conventional Republicans in the Bush White House and the pork - barrelling Republicans in the House and Senate) to open the federal purse with relative abandon.

When you pro-life contradictions stop acting like life begins at conception and ENDS AT BIRTH, when you stop using abortion as a political wedge issue to shore up votes and show that you actually understand and act on ALL the complex issues at work, you might actually find others more sympathetic to your alleged cause.

As subsequent Dominican and Franciscan theologians joined the inquisition, so their theologies became sacralist legitimations of papal and monarchist power politics to shore up a decadent Christendom, portraying God as the all powerful monarch of the universAs subsequent Dominican and Franciscan theologians joined the inquisition, so their theologies became sacralist legitimations of papal and monarchist power politics to shore up a decadent Christendom, portraying God as the all powerful monarch of the universas the all powerful monarch of the universe.

Finally, no night is completely lost that finds us washed up on shore, face to face with the Amateur who once borrowed Peter's boat to use as a pulpit, the one who has no day job, really, except to love us.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

As our world faces the worst refugee crisis in recorded history, I believe that our country ought to do more, not less, and I am confident that local churches throughout the country will step up to welcome these carefully - screened individuals who have fled persecution and reached our shores.

As he and others busy themselves with providing proof of Merrick's humanity — in order to shore up their own secular faith in a progressive social Darwinism and in their own decadent moral order — they expose their hollow theatricality and the futility of their «progress.»

Parts Unknown lives up to its name as Bourdain takes viewers to places like the remote mountains of Columbia, the back alleys of Tokyo and the shores of the Mississippi Delta to sample local cuisine, and immerse himself in the real culture of some of the world's most unique cities.

My faith was being used as a way to shore up Southern honor culture, mobilize voters for political allies, and market products to a gullible audience.

His greatness as a man lies not only in that he was able, more or less, to keep several different persons together in difficult times under the banner of «Thomas Merton,» but that he provides an enduring witness to all of us much less gifted seekers who have to shore up our own fragmentary lives in quest for the «hidden wholeness.»

But apart from physical objects such as the pretty stones Juan picked up for me from the shore; or the large brown hat with a ribbon tied around it that I bought from a beach - side vendor; or the one too many bikinis I'd added to my collection; recipes are what I love to acquire.