Sentences with phrase «shoring up by»

This is far too scary a concept for some to accept, without having their courage shored up by believing that some higher power is going to «save» them from the inevitable.

Shored up by relief at having successfully reduced proportional body fat, they remain haunted by dread that the pounds, the scorn and the self - hating misery may surge back at any time.

Another part of the building at 104 Smith Ave. is swaybacked and shored up by fresh lumber.

«The majority of British people recognise that a fourth term of a Labour administration, a weaker one, potentially shored up by perhaps a Simon Hughes - led group of Lib Dems is the nightmare scenario,» he said.

Labour's corresponding decline has not been as sharp, and its share of the vote is now shored up by the post-2010 exodus of centre - left Liberal Democrat voters, a reverse of the SDP effect 30 years ago.

Xu cautions that the proposed evolutionary reshuffling must be shored up by further analysis.

HOME computer security should be top of the list of online defences to be shored up by the «cyber-security tsar» the Obama administration is planning to appoint.

Paul Rudd's played roles such as these before, but casting him and bringing that baggage — shored up by the original script — looks like Marvel attempting to strike gold again with that formula.

The independent front suspension and the rigid - axle rear suspension are shored up by stabilizer bars that help the car to keep its grip on the asphalt in turns.

They're protecting an ancient business model, shored up by spreadsheets and databases but dependent on big - box book retailing.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Volvo was owned by Ford until the financial crisis hit, forcing the American carmaker to sell the brand to shore up its core business.

Rogers has already made numerous moves to shore up its consumer base by adapting to an increasing digital landscape.

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.

SBA spokesman Mike Stamler says that recent initiatives to shore up the secondary market by both the SBA and the Treasury Department «will help free up the capital both brokers and investors need to purchase new SBA loans.»

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 bond buyback meant to shore up confidence was quickly offset by a bank alleging «temporary liquidity difficulties».

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 change may help the OPEC nation shore up its tumbling international reserves by allowing it to include loans from China that are denominated in renminbi.

The intervention sparked concern among Chinese traders that the government was trying to shore up the market at levels unjustified by weaker economic outlook.

But it's also possible to take this a step further by adding incentives for the sales leader to help others on their team or shore up existing client relationships.

Critics say Trump's decision was clearly motivated by a desire to shore up domestic industries, and that the national security justification is nothing more than a guise.

To shore up its currency, the Russian central bank increased policy rates by 150 basis points on 31 October.

In a recent filing, Charter makes it clear that the company is taking an «inside out» approach to wireless, by focusing heavily first on indoor connectivity (leaning largely on its existing WiFi hotspot footprint), then shoring up cellular tower support down the line.

However, store closures and potential job losses are front and centre of the deal, with House of Fraser looking to shore up its fortunes by launching a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA).

Particularly in the information technology sector, companies are looking to shore up their defences by amassing large numbers of patents.

China's biggest rare earths producer has suspended production in an effort to shore up plunging prices of the materials used by makers of mobile phones and other high - tech products.

China's biggest rare earths producer has suspended output in an effort to shore up slumping prices of the materials used by makers of mobile phones and other high - tech products.

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.

Because I am tired of church leaders with expensive church buildings and bloated church budgets trying to shore up their ineffective church programs by demanding further sacrifice and greater commitments from tired and weary church members.

Since 1806 Mexico has suffered military intervention at least ten times by U.S. troops, and if there are no interventions in the offing now, perhaps it is largely because the U.S. has been shoring up the rule of one party, which wins rigged elections and then fails to challenge U.S. investment and business practices that increase human suffering for campesinos and urban poor there.

And then — just when the fishing business was picking up again and your family beginning to let you hack into its good graces — Bartholomew had come over the hill and found you down by the lake shore mending the fishing nets.

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.

Fixing the Affordable Care Act may be possible only after its utter collapse, but conscience rights for every actor in the healthcare system can be shored up with great ease by passage of the Conscience Protection Act.

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.

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.

By affirming the importance of surrounding and supporting communities to poor children and children whose home life is in disarray, the Kauai study challenges us to reflect on what might be done to shore up, or at least to avoid damaging, these structures.

Defending the honor of the poor by insisting they are just like the rest of the population shores up liberalism at its most vulnerable point, namely, its inability to explain why people who don't benefit from the welfare state should acquiesce in the taxes that pay for it.

Public morality does not mean the shoring up of lax morals through legislation demanded by a culturally conservative voting bloc.

I remember that I'd read it on our vacation on Brazil's gorgeous northern shores, and there I was sunbathing by the beach, my sunglasses on, and my kindle propped up in front of me.

The sector is traditionally commodity based, with bulk commodities making up 88 % of Australia's food and beverage exports.13 Comparator regions such as New Zealand and the UK realise more value per kg of exports by keeping a greater share of food processing on shore.

Over the summer the team acquired Adam Larsson to help shore up the blue line, a perennial issue for the team, but paid a high price by sending Taylor Hall to the New Jersey Devils in return.

Recommended by a TV cameraman after failing a trial at Newcastle but ended up shoring up Liverpool's backline for a decade, picking up domestic and European glory as he went.

Redknapp, who saw his struggling side fall back to the bottom of the Premier League after a 2 - 1 defeat by West Brom on Boxing Day, is desperate to shore up his leaky defence.

Childress shored up his Nationwide program by merging with Kevin Harvick's team this summer, bringing personnel, equipment and sponsorship.

He was trying to initiate attacks, cover his flank, assist Bellerin as well as trying to shore up the huge gap in midfield left by our new up and coming CF's Ramsey and Flamini...