Sentences with phrase «to shore up»

They hired teams of skilled lobbyists and spent thousands of dollars on advertisements upstate to shore up support.

Their results, they say, suggest a role for gut microbes and further shore up the connection between cheese and the French paradox.

While the state looks to shore up school budgets, their union is standing in the way, trying to protect bad teachers in the process.

A straight swap, player for player, we get shore up our defence and be rid of 2 frustrating players on massive salaries.

It is a whole lot easier to make a building earthquake - safe in the first place than to shore it up after it's built.

If you don't, then you better shore up your resume to emphasize other impressive assets.

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.

Oh how our proud club has fallen shore it up at the back wenger and the confidence of the offensive players will return.

Hmmm... well it certainly shores up the poorly conceived ongoing system of full return policies, doesn't it?

An additional 2,000 bikes would go to shore up service in existing neighborhoods, the source said.

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

Do experience and a new defensive coordinator shore up a leaky run defense?

But there is still work to do to increase access and shore up quality.

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.

«Taxpayers are massively subsidizing a private company that is losing billions of dollars solely for the purposes of shoring up political support for the Governor and to pay off his big donors.

Their frequent visitor is Mary (Lesley Manville), a unhappy woman with a drinking problem who needs shoring up with their sanity.

LaVerghetta said he's counting on shoring up support in the outer borough of Queens, which has more conservative voters, to gain victory in November.

The ICA is overflowing with young hopefuls eager to make waves; ArtLyst tests the water As Virginia Woolf claimed of books, perhaps so with works of art; «If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper -LSB-...]

This can help in shoring up basic manners training that needs a bit of refreshing or can work as «proofing» for dog performance sports where your dog may be required to comply with an exercise via verbal cue or hand signal.

While the exact policy details aren't immediately available, the products are said to be aimed at shoring up confidence in digital currency transactions.

By making Wall Street pay its fair share, this legislation would help shore up funding for public goods and services that keep people and our communities healthy and whole, at home and around the world.

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.

The rate hikes were part of the 2012 Biggert - Waters law, which had set out to gradually phase out flood insurance subsidies in an effort to shore up finances for the National Flood Insurance Program, which stands about $ 24 billion in debt, mainly due to catastrophic storms like Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

They talked about which states needed shoring up, the best person to respond to questions or criticisms and who needed to travel to which state capital to testify, according to those familiar with the conversations.

The Twist variant has not shored up sales by a lot.

In a fresh move to further shore up security, Microsoft is providing Intel's Spectre fix for PCs with Skylake processors running Windows 10 — with further patches to be delivered for older generation CPUs in the future.

That would also help Merck shore up revenues for its own hepatitis C franchise.

He wisely wants to keep and strengthen the many good programs started by DeMarco, while shoring up deficiencies in technology and personnel training; many corrections officers, he says, lack CPR training and have not been recertified in firearms.

It's a success because Lam shows he is still one of Hong Kong's premier directors, displaying excellent sense of style, actor handling, and also shoring it all up with realistic dialogue.

Just make sure to shore up other areas of your finances first — such as having a stable job and creating an emergency fund — so you can be prepared for any unexpected challenges you may face in the future.

But if Facebook didn't shore up data privacy, it'd have no defense if future privacy abuses by outside developers came to light.

The role of external counsel in my view, they have a depth of subject matter expertise in all of the important areas of CSR and can help shore up areas of expertise in - house counsel do not have.»

On Tuesday, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May called for a general election on June 8th, with the aim of shoring up more conservative support in parliament.

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.

Both candidates want to make permanent the property tax cap, but Kaminsky sometimes seems more concerned about shoring up public union support than about taxpayers.

After all, I can supplement him outside the classroom academically if needed, but I can't really shore up his social immaturity.

You still get the same 7 - inch form factor — in fact, the device hasn't changed much in looks at all compared to its predecessor — but better internals and components have been utilized to help shore up what was already a nice experience.

What research shows is that individuals who are the elite in their careers get there because of deep and deliberate practice that is defined as: «Working on technique, seeking critical feedback, and focusing ruthlessly on shoring up weaknesses.»

This spring, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Mexico, Algeria, and Norway banded together to shore up prices by slight cuts in oil production.

Her robust criticism of those default rumors has helped shore up markets over the past 24 hours or so.

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

Nvidia famously asked retailers to snub these miners, in a bid to shore up supply of GPUs.

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.

Lancman has also spent years shoring up his support among organized labor, making sure to be a visible figure on union picket lines over the years.

Such statements are primarily targeted at shoring up political support and secondarily at painting President Obama as being soft on China.

Fewer than 20 % said shoring up balance sheets and restructuring debt are priorities.

The chairman of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld told attendees at the Thomson Reuters 17th Annual Law Firm Leaders Forum that his firm had chosen to focus on shoring up profits per partner during the recession.

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.