How To Use Shoring up In A Sentence
-
At issue is a megabuck Pentagon jet deal that could go a long way toward shoring up Boeing's bottom line.
-
Chances are that while you are there a carpenter or glazier will be at work shoring up as window or correcting a lean.
-
The irony of the Reformation was that in the name of shoring up the old order, its dogmatism unintentionally gave birth to the living traditions of civil and political liberty.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
-
Broken cultures therapeutically confabulate, mythologise former ways of life, and fight off meaninglessness by shoring up crumbling identities.
-
The Iranian government asserts absolute control: by taking on the intellectual and political elite sympathetic to the opposition; by asserting control over key ministries; and shoring up the alliances of its myriad armed forces including the Revolutionary Guard, the Army, the Police and the feared baseej militia.
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet: Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup
-
ProLogis has succeeded in shoring up its balance sheet with asset sales since late 2008, when some analysts were warning of bankruptcy.
ProLogis, Blackstone Near $1 Billion Property Agreement
-
But this group must do better in shoring up a 25th-ranked run defense.
Raiders have JaMarcus ... now can they improve?
-
I thought dunning Burner for wanting to raise the cap on SS withholding and then accusing her of wanting to "raise taxes" was deceptive --- especially when you consider that Ronald Reagan DOUBLED SS withholding under the guise of saving retirement money for Baby Boomers and then spent ALL of the money on his dubious military prjects and in shoring up an economy that was failing because of tax breaks for the rich.
Sound Politics: Seattle Times endorses Reichert
-
Follow his advice and you'll turbocharge muscle growth, drive up your metabolism, and increase your bone density, while shoring up your joints.
-
They're perfect for shoring up unfilling salads and brothy soups, stuffing small birds and pork loins or standing in for rice in risottos.
Get Your Freekeh On
-
Justified or not, the call for reparations seems to me to be based around shoring up racial tensions rather than diffusing them.
-
They also set shoring up their legal claim against Portugal's pretensions to the newly discovered lands.
-
Bank profits are being channelled into shoring up their balance sheets, rather than new investments.
-
It is joyous stuff, evoking for me not only happy days of yore in Len's studio but also shoring up my belief that Len's cutlines (captions, you'd say) were masterpieces of the English language.
-
His last hope of shoring up his flagging position was to relieve Richard's great fortress of Château-Gaillard, the key to Normandy, which Philip was besieging.
-
Lower House Speaker Gianfranco Fini said that parliament would pass the reforms by Sunday aimed at boosting growth and shoring up public finances in a so-called "maxi amendment" to the 2012 budget currently before parliament.
Reuters: Press Release
-
All in all, shoring up the line of lower-profile ongoings seems like a better deal than banking on scattershot miniseries.
Six in one hand… | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
-
And, for help on getting the best homeowners insurance coverage without skimping, read our article on shoring up your coverage from Consumer Reports Money Adviser.
Lightning strikes twice? Not quite, but it's hitting homes more often.
-
It would be ironic for the United States, which has invested so much of its prestige in shoring up historic Lebanon, were constitutional reform to increase rather than diminish Syrian influence within the country.
Shedding Light on Lebanon
-
Widespread opposition to a proposed Afghan law is less about liberating women than shoring up Western authority.
-
The new public relations manager has the difficult task of shoring up the company's troubled image.
-
Shoring up vertical trench walls and shielding workers from cave-ins are more than just sound excavating safety practices.
-
Shoring up domestic output, protecting employment and achieving recovery took precedence over fighting inflation, defending exchange-rate parities or preserving the gold value of the currency.
-
A dash of the same brine will help keep the ballast right, then a skysail-yard breakfast must be carefully stowed away, in order to give a firmness to the timbers, and on the strength of these two blocks for shoring up the hull, you must begin little by little, and keep on brightening up until you have got the craft all right again.
An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
-
The money could be spent on shoring up doors and windows as well as measures to protect interiors and wiring.
-
What Blagojevich is doing is what "normal" politicians call shoring up their base.
The Senate has the power to exclude Roland Burris, say lawprofs Akhil Reed Amar and Josh Chafetz.
-
From a political point of view he's also been very effective in shoring up his popularity.
The Softer Side of Ashcroft
-
Attempts to shore up the value of a derivative without shoring up the value of the assets from which they ultimately derive their value are likely to be in vain however cleverly we may try to finagle.
-
From forcefully chaperoning the merger of two French pharmaceutical giants to shoring up ailing engineering group Alstom, Sarkozy has been giving new meaning to the old concept of dirigisme.
-
Shoring up Fannie and Freddie will also compensate for tighter credit elsewhere.
-
The measures were aimed at shoring up the economy.
-
A mind-set has emerged busying itself with quick fixes, stopping change or shoring up its excesses.
-
Nevertheless, for Thagard, there are still ways of shoring up coherence with varying degrees of vigour.
-
The island's seawall, which is more than 100 years old, also requires shoring up, and some 1.4 million square feet of historic buildings need restoration.
City Readies Island Money
-
There was a host of tasks, from shoring up the fire escape to re-wiring to new windows.