Sentences with phrase «years shoring up»

The Atheneum has spent the last few years shoring up the building's infrastructure in a two - phase renovation project that concentrated on the exterior first and the interior second.

Sure, that's a lot of cash, which may explain why one survey by NerdWallet of 2,000 Americans found that we spend an average of three years shoring up our finances before buying a home.

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.

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Gold fell 1.2 percent on Friday after stronger than expected U.S. payrolls data shored up expectations that a pick - up in inflation will spur further U.S. interest rate hikes this year, boosting the U.S. currency, in which it is priced.

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.

GE said Tuesday after a review of its GE Capital insurance portfolio that it will take a $ 6.2 billion after - tax charge for the fourth quarter of 2017 and expects to contribute $ 15 billion over the next seven years to shore up the portfolio's reserves.

Oil majors and large independent drillers need to shore up their asset portfolios after several years of underinvestment during a price slump, analysts say.

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.

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.

Unable to secure additional investments on good terms from new investors, the six - year - old company has raised a new $ 15 million investment from its current investors to shore up its balance sheet amid a cash crunch.

He said the federal and provincial governments need to act to shore up companies and avoid a repeat of the early 2000s when it took more than a year for Ottawa to react with an aid package.

On the bright side, says Ashmore's Dehn, «I think inflation falls this year and that Brazil gets a current account surplus, which shores up reserves.»

In a year when banks around the world were raising equity capital to shore up their balance sheets, Goldman raised $ 15.1 billion for financial institutions, more than any of its competitors, according to Dealogic.

Their goal has been to shore up oil prices for over a year now.

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.

Chinese billionaire Xingfa Ma snapped up Wollogorang and Wentworth cattle stations on the shores of the Gulf of Carpentaria in the Northern Territory for $ 47 million last year.

I will lose my ever loving mind if that isn't shored up this season as pass pro on the right side of the line has been a problem for years.

Blevins, meanwhile, shores up the Mets» bullpen going into next season, after a year when they couldn't seem to have any sort of nice things when it came to the pitching staff.

As the Eagles have taught us this year, it's very hard to have too many playmakers in the pass rush — not to mention CB is much easier to shore up in Free Agency this year

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.

Coquelin may end up being the «Flamini» substitution we have seen over the years — coming in to shore things up as necessary.

Stanford's perimeter, which has had difficulty against quick and aggressive teams such as Tennessee and Connecticut in the last two years, should be shored up this season.

I am sure we can shore up the SS position next year when Mike Adams rides off into the sunset with his first Super Bowl ring.

Long linked as a top defensive target for United and other big clubs, Aymeric Laporte of Athletic Bilbao is a superb prospect and one who could shore up the Old Trafford backline for many years to come.

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

I desperately would like us to shore up our defense and get a DM but if he has gotten a top DM in 13 years why would a reasonable person think he would get one this summer.

Arsenal best spell during the last few years was the 8 months where Coquelin and Cazorla were working together to shore up the midfield.

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.

Well your righ with met spend but in amount paid out for players no net were 5th but i agree our champions league performances have been poor we had some tough draws and the premier league is more demanding then the other leagues in strwnght of competition and games played still excuses do nt win but that monaco loss left me shaking my head in cl we get theough the group but cant muster the strength needed for knockout and we should be performing better were under performing for the talent xhaka has frustrated me hes got the talent and plays well but cant hold focus in games he drops off and loses his marks our academy is doing well but yes it is tougher now to break in to the first team iwobi has done well but one or two seasons away from being there if he does turn himself elite ever has to score or he will just be another ox but i think its been a wake up call to the club we finally have to act theres a wave of ideas to not only get us back to winning ways but become title contenders and i think give him the extension one year its a world cup year and that will also allow our players esp strikers who been very poor this year realized its tough to play in englad and next year will have a better idea what it really takes to win here shore up some spots and depth and were in contention fail and the changes will happen but let him have one more year the fact were willing to spend shows me an upturn from the decline

The 25 year - old German international would certainly go some way to shoring up our leaky defence, and with our German contingent on hand to help him settle in quickly in London he could be an excellent addition to the Arsenal squad.

If Schneiderlin does indeed come this summer, then I think we've gone a long way to shoring up that DM problem we've had for years.

Most outlets agree the price is somewhere between # 30 million and # 35 million, which is certainly a large amount for a player yet to be tested on our shores, add onto that the rumoured 5 - year deal signed at # 120k per week and the ends up much closer to # 65 million than 35.

They will be relied upon to shore up a unit that struggled some last year after losing three - year player Simba Short to injury in the season - opener.

For a team that is looking to shore up its attack in a year when they lost their dynamic left back and don't yet know if Jordan Morris can repeat his freshman season (or exceed it) Meram makes sense.

A player with the versatility of Bensebaini could be the ideal signing for a number of teams, especially if you need someone to help shore up your defence at the start of next year.

Scholes1822 he seems to be shoring up with the lads who have been at the club for a while.Gave Carrick a new contract, told Young he's wanted, by all accounts meeting with Jones this week to keep him part of the squad, so see no reason he'd get rid of Tony V, i thought he was Utd's best RB last year, even if he's not the starting fullback solid player to have in the squad.

However, discontent among supporters on Tyneside has been partially dissipated by a trio of excellent signings: Georginio Wijnaldum, captain of PSV's Eredivisie - winning side and acclaimed as the Dutch Player of the Year (ahead of Memphis Depay); Aleksandar Mitrovic, a Serbian striker who Jose Mourinho claimed «has everything to be a European star»; and Chancel Mbemba, Mitrovic's former team - mate at Anderlecht and a central defender of uncertain age who, it's hoped, will shore up a porous back four.

The gem has been used by humans for roughly 35,000 years, as it was first seen washed up on the shores of land surrounding the Baltic Seas.

Still, Cuomo sought to shore up support from business leaders that he won in 2010, despite concerns that he will be forced in to a more liberal agenda next year.

He took the plunge into public affairs in 2014 and was last year recruited by FleishmanHillard Fishburn as the agency sought to shore up its wobbling public affairs operation.

If approved, New York would be exempt from a five - year program from the federal government that seeks to make up to 90 percent of the country's off - shore areas open to gas and oil development.

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.

Experts hired by the county say the 17,500 - seat outdoor concert venue on the western shore of Onondaga Lake could have an economic impact of up to $ 22 million a year by 2019.

Cuomo, meanwhile, has worked over the last several years to shore up support from the left after a first term accomplishments that include caps on spending in the budget, limits to local property tax increases and other methods of fiscal restraint following the recession.

The Environment Agency has revealed it will cost # 1 billion every year to shore up the UK's flood defences.

Lawmakers say the increase in spending would come after the funding to shore up homeless youth programs has been «slashed bty more than half in just five years.»

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.

Eight years into the tumultuous revolution, with about three years left on his watch, Bloomberg today took a bold step toward shoring up his education legacy by replacing schools chancellor Joel Klein with publishing executive Cathie Black.

The money is meant to shore up school district finances in the middle of the year.