Sentences with phrase «while shoring up»

«While shoring up women's health domestically, President Obama is taking important steps to sustain family planning efforts throughout the developing world.

The new operator committed to providing daily arts programming while shoring up its academics.

Public school districts are facing twin challenges: maintaining a labor supply of qualified teachers while shoring up the deteriorating system that compensates them.

The theme of Cuomo's speech — furthering New York's «progressive agenda,» while shoring up its middle class — is an idea de Blasio has made central to his entire term as mayor, so far.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

While the company reported a net loss of $ 22.9 million, or $ 0.59 per unit, due to the challenging frack sand market, it did take several steps to shore up its balance sheet.

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

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras needs to shore up support at home for his plan, while euro - area finance ministers meet Wednesday to prepare the ground for a second, scheduled summit of European Union leaders Thursday.

To shore up those markets, the Fed supplied over $ 1 trillion in emergency credit, issued through various emergency lending facilities, to various sorts of financial institutions, while extending a further $ 85 billion line of credit to AIG.

While experts are hopeful politicians eventually will act to shore up the system, there are no guarantees.

My goal would be to both ensure that those who depend on the program are protected, while also balancing the growing cost of Social Security with other pressing priorities — from programs for children, the vulnerable, public investments, and shoring up our education and worker retraining systems.

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.

While a host of builders attempt, with varying degrees of success, to shore them up, there is a dearth of architects engaged in designing new structures.

Then, while ignoring the hard biological evidence that life begins at conception and that religious opinion has nothing to do with it, Sen. Biden incoherently referenced Thomas Aquinas to shore up his argument.

All agree that the 2015 crop in California was smaller than it has been in recent years, and while we wait for the official February California Crop Report to give us an actual tonnage number, we know that the market has been very active, as buyers have moved to shore up supply.

He keeps filling holes while creating new ones and then lacks the resources to fill the new ones, It is very annoying, but he has to have a plan on how to shore up this team.

We still won't know for a while just how far the English sides can progress in this season's competition, but it's starting to shape up like our best chance in many years to see a winner based on these shores.

Wenger replaced Xhaka with the more defensive Coquelin to try and shore up the defence, while Mourinho threw on Lingaard and Rashford to put some pressure on.

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

Wenger has suggested that 4 -4-2 might be an option for Arsenal again this season, especially when Olivier Giroud recovers from his tibia injury, while having our two most defensive midfielders might be an option to shore up the spine of the team and offer our makeshift back four more protection.

Sandro and Tom Huddlestone shored up midfield, while Hugo Lloris was selected ahead of Brad Friedel in goal.

At this point in his career, Digne isn't a flashy player who will pile on the goals from the wing, but his passing and ability to get forward will be a boon to Edin Dzeko, while his solid defensive skills should shore up that left flank when Radja Nainggolan forges ahead or when Gervinho simply forgets to track back.

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.

3) The entire mandate by the state bothers me, in fact, because while I support the idea of shoring up the nutrition of low - income children (who as you point out are the likely beneficiaries of the policy), I DO N'T support the idea of intervening in what parents choose to feed their children.

The assessment is 50 + questions in 8 subcategories allowing you to get down to the nitty gritty and to see where you can shore up your kids now while they are young.

The names that fill newspapers these days are ISIS, Boko Haram, Al - Queda; the hashtags that circulate on social media now — and I will say their names — are of Sandra Bland, who died under suspicious circumstances while in police custody in Texas; Aylan Kurdi a young Syrian boy who, along with his family, washed up on the shore of a beach in Turkey; Madau Gach Dut, one of the thousands who have died in the conflict in South Sudan.

While many have pointed to the bin Salman trying to shore up his hold on power, the Israel connection adds another dimension to the analysis of his purge of parts of the Saudi elite.

«The governor is intent on electing Democrats to the state senate to pass his agenda and shore up the blue wall at home, while also electing Democratic Congress members to fight Trump and his fellow Republicans» anti-New York agenda,» said a Democratic source.

It is being claimed by some in Westminster that a deal has been done between Mr Blair and Mr Ashdown in a bid to shore up the Liberal Democrat leader's position while averting a full - scale civil war on the Labour benches.

Mayor de Blasio announced an additional $ 125 million in school funding Wednesday — while accusing Gov. Cuomo of failing to adequately help shore up...

While Kaloyeros has denied any wrongdoing as he seeks to clear his name at trial next year, school officials have sought a substantial bailout from the state worth tens of millions of dollars to shore up various academic, research and construction programs there.

Both Nicoletti and Perez Williams have proposed resurrecting former city programs while Masterople would explore a new tax to shore up city finances.

The US is trying to shore up what's left of the international drugs consensus, while watching its own states legalise cannabis.

The candidates for Nassau district attorney yesterday sought to shore up support on the final weekend before the election, with Republican Kate Murray rallying local GOP clubs while Democrat Madeline Singas courted a business group and party activists.

Cuomo's willingness to take the Indy line while Vance's investigation continues helps shore up the party's image - especially since he has so far refused to seek the line of the Working Families Party, which is being probed by the U.S. Attorney's office.

Niagara County Legislator John Syracuse ranged the cost of the damage to be $ 175,000 - $ 200,000 at the county level while further explaining that a «rough estimate» of $ 7.48 million will be needed to shore up the individual residents and businesses in the area.

«Mitt Romney has shored up support among his key backers while cutting his loses among Tea Party voters,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

The Salton Sea enjoyed some success in the 1950s as resort communities grew up on the eastern shore and looked promising for a while.

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.

While cities and the Army Corps of Engineers sometimes mine them to shore up eroding beaches, they may want to reconsider: Those sandbars might slow down hurricanes, reducing the damage to communities along the shoreline.

Tides, storms and other disturbances in shallow water will stir up the bottom, while further from shore, where the water is deeper, turbulence can not reach the ocean floor, allowing sediment to settle undisturbed.

While many cranes and cement mixers are at work in L'Aquila, much of the town's historic centre is unoccupied and frozen in the state it was shortly after the earthquake, with simple beams shoring up windows, doorways and cracked walls and vegetation beginning to encroach.

Growing up surrounded by natural beauty on the north shore of Lake Tahoe, Angela felt most alive while out hiking and developed a passion for the natural world.

For example, if you and your doctor think that milk is causing a flare, you might want to eliminate it from your diet while working with a nutritionist to help shore up your intake with other calcium - rich foods.

Marine singles are really up for dating when they've been off shore for a while - they will go to lengths to come up with fun dates!

If there is a Rush Hour 4, it's going take some shoring up of the comedy in the screenplay to ensure at least some laughs, while someone other than Brett Ratner will have to take over to push Tucker's comedy to a new direction other than getting surlier and less likeable.

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.

I continually strive to challenge myself, absorbing new theories and best practices that wash up on shore, while letting those things that matter least go back out with the tide.

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