Sentences with phrase «time shoring up»

Spend some time shoring up any other social media sites with your name on them (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) as recruiters are known to check.

The governor took his first out - of - state trip to Somos el Futuro and has spent a good chunk of time shoring up support in the minority community, especially through small business initiatives.

Greenberg says it's been a smart strategy, but the governor may now have to spend more time shoring up the support of downstate voters.

Not exact matches

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.»

Over the past year, the Times had found itself at odds with Tribune's previous management, which fired a publisher, Austin Beutner, who was pursuing an aggressively local strategy designed to shore up the paper's value and influence on its home turf.

A federal agency that insured more than half of all loans for first - time homebuyers last year may soon look to taxpayers to shore up its dwindling finances.

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?].

What are some steps first - time homebuyers should take to shore up credit before applying for a mortgage?

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.

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.

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.

Of course, I know I might have to face the mild rebukes of some in the Senate, who, like Chris Dodd, are paragons of ethical probity, and the likes of the New York Times may even oppose me (largely to shore up its own lack of credibility).

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.»

«Stone crab is very plentiful and would wash up on the shore, and people would throw them back,» he says of the time before Joe's began serving them.

The easiest time to win a Championship right now is when a QB is on their rookie contract so you can spend money to shore up the rest of the team elsewhere.

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

Shoring up DM & GK is the best bit of business done in years, its a long time since weve been very strong in these areas.

Porter finally came along in his fourth season, just in time to shore up a max - level second contract.

The Swiss international midfielder got himself sent off for the second time this term, raising a huge question - mark over his temperament, and we may well need to shore up our midfield as we look to challenge Chelsea for the Premier League title.

We do have priorities of course, but there's nothing to say we cant shore up in the mean time.

Arsene Wenger admitted even before the January transfer window that he intended to bring in at least one defender to shore up Arsenal's decimated back line, and so it came to pass, with the Brazilian Gabriel arriving with plenty of time before deadline day.

To add to that, there is still no sign that Gabriel is likely to recover from his injury any time soon, and with Calum on the «to sell» list, not much attention seems to have been shown in shoring up a key area for the team.

Wenger's time would be wiser spent shoring up his defence rather than to complain about a handball that didn't prove conclusive even with the assistance of multiple angled replays.

James Tomkins — 6/10: Chosen at right - back to shore up West Ham's defence in place of Carl Jenkinson, the centre - back looked useful for most of the game but let Lingard loose a few too many times in the second - half.

For a time Bravo's replacement Caballero had looked to have shored up Pep's defence.

The moment N'Koudou beat Moses with a dart of pace, Conte decided it was time to shore up and go for some defensive experience down our right — Branislav Ivanovic was on in the Nigerian's place, preceded by the introduction of Willian in place of Hazard and followed quickly by Oscar replacing Pedro.

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).

First of all, if you know your baby's due date, you can plan accordingly for those peak fussy times and shore up your help during the more intense times.

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

At the same time, Duffy could help shore up support for Cuomo in Rochester, a city that has felt miffed over the attention given to its neighbor to the west through the «Buffalo Billion» economic development program.

At the same time, American Racing and Entertainment Chairman Jeff Gural in a statement on Thursday called on the state to give the racetrack a tax break in order to shore up its finances due to the lost revenue.

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.

A bonus for Democrats is that gubernatorial nominee J.B. Pritzker is heavily funding his own campaign, leaving pro-Democratic outside groups able to devote their money and time to shoring up control of the legislature.

These seek to attract floating voters, shore up core votes and woo potential coalition partners, all at the same time.

This is the second time in recent weeks that the governor has held a telephone town hall in an effort to shore up support for his budgetary proposals.

By ploughing that money into deficit reduction, he shored up his core narrative: responsibility during times of crisis, a steady hand on the tiller.

Though more money, $ 3.3 billion, came into the state coffers in August compared to this time last year, the state is relying on one - time revenues from tax settlements to shore up its budget.

But when it came time to choose a keynote speaker for the San Francisco convention's opening night, Mondale thought of Cuomo right away: Who better to set the tone for the convention and shore up the party's traditional blue - collar base than the eloquent and emphatically liberal Italian - American governor of New York?

Bloomberg's gamble paid off this time, and he's clearly moving to shore up his ties to the Senate majority.

The mayor, sniffling through his remarks, highlighted major investments in the city's public hospitals, whose finances, a city - commissioned report found, were teetering on the edge «of a financial cliff,» and in shoring up the city's bridges, as well as a one - time, $ 183 credit paid out on the water bills of more than half a million homeowners.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has engaged in unprecedented criticism of Governor Andrew Cuomo in recent days, suggested for the first time Sunday that he regrets working to shore up liberal support for his putative ally in the governor's race last year.

JERUSALEM — Governor Andrew Cuomo's 28 - hour trip to Israel this week, his first time out of the country since his inauguration in January 2011, was more than just the routine campaign stop required of New York politicians seeking to shore up support among Jewish voters.

The Times and The Washington Post report on the maneuverings involving Henry Barbour, nephew of RGA head Gov. Haley Barbour, and others to shore to up a stronger opponent to RNC chairman Michael Steele — and the current efforts to focus that attention on Steele ally Reince Priebus.

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.

About 27 committee members attended the meeting as Morse shored up his hometown political support as some Albany County and Cohoes Democrats called for him to resign following Times Union articles detailing information about domestic violence allegations involving Morse that date back decades.

The 15 % SPT slapped on petroleum products, at the time, was aimed at shoring up dwindling revenues due to the falling price of crude on the international market.

Still, it's surely disappointing to the governor, who has made such a concerted effort over the past several months to shore up his support upstate in time for his re-election.

One of the interesting things to study, we know Central Park is important for migratory birds and we know that they depend upon the food resources that are here, but no one has ever really done a systematic survey of what actually they are feeding on, like we have never done a canopy study of all the invertebrates up in the trees to see what's coming out when and what is the predominant part of the diet of different birds and sort of quantifying; but what they have done — people have done — with shore birds and sort of gauging, weighing them, you know, catching them, weighing them, seeing how much weight they gain over time while they are rather resting and feeding before they depart on their northern trip.

And what can be done within a short period of time to shore that up?»

By the time someone notices the discrepancy between their math ability and general performance, it may be too late to shore up shaky foundations.