How To Use Prop up In A Sentence
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There seemed to my perverted sense a certain poetic justice about the fact that money, gained honestly but prosaically, in groceries or gas, should go to regild an ancient blazon or prop up the crumbling walls of some stately palace abroad.
Worldly Ways and Byways
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Meanwhile, world leaders scrambled for new ways to prop up the euro.
Times, Sunday Times
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In December, the RBI placed limits on unhedged foreign currency positions that banks can hold overnight and also banned companies from cancelling and rebooking forward contracts with the same underlying exposure as part of measures to prop up the local currency.
RBI: Forex Trading Curbs Temporary
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He knew that Moscow could no longer afford to prop up its deeply indebted allies.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meanwhile, world leaders scrambled for new ways to prop up the euro.
Times, Sunday Times
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No doubt Brawn must have known his car was going to be a winner and invested some of his own substantial wealth to prop up the team.
Times, Sunday Times
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The selected candidate will be responsible for CREEPS Inc. corporate messaging and branding to advance sales of our cheap to manufacture, high profit margin line of big name consumable products such as ANXIETY, FEAR and TOTAL IGNORANCE as CREEPS continues its decades of success to crush and destroy the capacity of ailing competitors selling OPTIMISM built using expensive High Hopes processes based on inclusive collaborative methods that prop up the menace of human decency and shared values.
Progressive Bloggers
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The changes are simply a stopgap measure to prop up a program drowning in red ink.
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The American two-party system is fracturing, as both sides are struggling with immense war debt, a crippled manufacturing base, and a Federal Reserve that is devaluating the currency in order to prop up financial institutions that gambled trillions and lost; their bets became our losses as they were "covered by the house".
Tea Party vs. Two Party
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This is the happy-clappy voice of Google's PR operation, a vast exercise in passive aggression designed to prop up the perception that Eric, Larry and Sergey really, really, really, don't want to do evil.
Google Vs. Governments: Google Reacts To Nations' Privacy Complaints
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Attempts by the UK government to prop up the pound on the exchange markets degenerated into chaos.
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The central bank has used about half its foreign reserves since 2011 to prop up the pound and implemented strict restrictions on hard currency.
Times, Sunday Times
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We had to prop up the roof with a wooden post.
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While other countries 'central banks have cut their interest rates to support economic growth in recent weeks, Denmark's central bank was forced to raise its key rate to 5.5% from 5% on Oct. 24 to prop up the Danish currency, the krone, which is pegged to the euro.
Denmark Pushes for Vote to Adopt Euro
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It is reckoned that emigrants sent home the equivalent of 2 billion which helped to prop up our ailing economy.
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Britain is recruiting far and wide to prop up its rundown national health system, from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, China, and the Philippines.
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Scottish Saltires prop up the table but Yorkshire and Kent are just above them with 20 points each and whoever loses tonight will sink even deeper into the mire.
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Many firms have been scrabbling about to find extra capital - either from parent banks or from the bond market - to prop up solvency ratios.
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The main bookcase is almost empty, the others contain collapsing stacks of books; in the English bookcase Marina Warner’s Joan of Arc and Naomi Wolf’s Fire with Fire prop up Claire Petulengro’s Love Signs (and I’m not even sure how she got there).
2009 February « Tales from the Reading Room
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Meanwhile, world leaders scrambled for new ways to prop up the euro.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sex is used by histrionics to prop up their self-esteem and to regulate their labile sense of self-worth.
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The Belgian Government may now have to prop up the ailing bank.
Times, Sunday Times
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In an effort to prop up the use of Irish, the government in the region in which Irish is still in common use has replaced the previously bilingual road signs with monolingual signs.
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Life is a kind of pressure. We should learn to prop up ourselves.
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The Bulgarian nation will not be in shock for long, they will soon come to realise that all that changed were a few rules that were ignored anyway and that wagonloads of Euro Cash were left behind to prop up the economy.
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The central bank has used about half its foreign reserves since 2011 to prop up the pound and implemented strict restrictions on hard currency.
Times, Sunday Times
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In fact, they could prop up the Conservative Government for a fifth term, if the need arises!
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Against the backdrop of these feeble intellectual currents lurks the traditionalist discourse that altogether consigns modern science to oblivion and attempts to prop up a fatal mix of mystical and alchemical knowledge.
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The builders are trying to prop up the crumbling walls of the church.
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In case anyone needs reminding what happened, a ne'er-do-well customer of the bank had run out of credit to prop up his ailing business.
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A lot of communities either try to prop up their long-established economic pillars or, failing that, they try to attract something big and new.
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At the root of that corruption is Pakistan's system of semi-feudal land ownership, which, ironically, the Chinese Communist Party is more than happy to prop up.
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In the long run, though, cheap labor in Mexico was not enough to prop up a lagging, stogy industry that failed to innovate.
Mexico: Land of Dire Straits and Reaganomics
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The Rainforest Action Network thinks the American Petroleum Institute and its oil lobby allies are behind a slew of fake Twitter accounts designed to prop up public opinion about the pipeline.
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And is it really the business of government to prop up the ancient memorials of a bygone era?
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Temporarily prop up the two end trusses on a level, flat surface.
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They renewed my hope that our profession has not sunk completely into a morass of infotainment journalism that serves to prop up corporate ownership and pop culture.
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Put an upturned eggcup in the middle of the dish to prop up the pastry.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars have been "siphoned off" by a Kapiti runanga, with some used to prop up failed business ventures, a police report alleges.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
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These two fears compose a powerful compound - sufficient to prop up governments everywhere on earth for several millennia.
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Their uniform of choice this season appears to be, for ladies, a pashmina wrapped around the neck tightly enough to prop up one's chin, worn with the skimpiest vest top.
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Russia, which was forced to suspend stock and bond trading for two days last week, is pledging $130 billion in emergency funds to help prop up local markets.
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Sex is used by histrionics to prop up their self-esteem and to regulate their labile sense of self-worth.
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If the Chinese economy faltered, it would mean no more investment to prop up our ailing economies.
Times, Sunday Times
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More recently we have relied on consumer spending to prop up the economy during the bust.
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We had to prop up the roof with a wooden post.
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If you have difficulty sitting like this[sentence dictionary], prop up your back against a wall.
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The central bank has used about half its foreign reserves since 2011 to prop up the pound and implemented strict restrictions on hard currency.
Times, Sunday Times
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This cash is given to farmers across the EU to help prop up their businesses through massive subsidies.
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If you can't reach the floor, use a pillow or bolster to prop up your feet.
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It's a privilege to see them whittling tree limbs like mammoth pencils, then twisting them into the ground to prop up our hammocks and cook pots.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whereas China is boosting infrastructure spending to prop up demand, India's plans to build roads and power plants with the help of private money may be delayed by the credit squeeze.
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The contrast is jaw-dropping; architectural values have been binned, and walls, windows and buttresses bunged in anywhere simply to prop up the facade at the front.
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You can no longer rely on his ineptitude to prop up your fragile ego.
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We had to prop up the roof with a wooden post.
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The first step is to prop up the fire-damaged building with safety scaffolding.
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As it was, she had a thin, lumpy wool cloak, riddled with holes despite its distinct, musty smell of mothballs, to prop up her head upon.
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What Team Vonn did and continues to do to prop up Lindsey physically and emotionally is the latest example of the kind of special attention Vonn has received that has taken her from being very good to being the best in the world.
Lindsey Vonn's injury tempers huge Olympics expectations
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What we're facing is the long-term impoverishment of the majority of the population in order to prop up a system where people at the top can cream off their fees and cream off their very fat incomes.
Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org
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During the party conference in Blackpool earlier this month, there were appeals for individual donations to help prop up the troubled pension fund for the party's army of front-line staff.
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They showed no qualms in spending ￡3 billion in a futile attempt to prop up the Pound.
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Shuffling the order of tracks doesn't prop up any emotions or themes or kill any "album" concepts.
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All that did was prop up the company that never made much commercial success anyway for a few more years, enriching a few people on the way.
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Labor groups are hiding "behind shadowlike front groups to prop up their candidates of choice," said Ken Spain, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee.
Union helps non-profit groups pay for attack ads
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In case anyone needs reminding what happened, a ne'er-do-well customer of the bank had run out of credit to prop up his ailing business.
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Privately owned capital and its dilate become what economy grows to prop up.
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No doubt Brawn must have known his car was going to be a winner and invested some of his own substantial wealth to prop up the team.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dinner was that promiscous and experimental to-day, along o 'Richelieu's nat'ral foolin', that I think I could git outside of a little suthin 'now, if only to prop up a kind of innard sinkin' that takes me.
A Phyllis of the Sierras
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The Kenyans have been counting on international aid groups to prop up their counterinsurgency campaign - the phrase "hearts and minds" crops up repeatedly in conversations with the soldiers.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Even the best underwriters can't prop up a sluggish stock indefinitely.
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It's a privilege to see them whittling tree limbs like mammoth pencils, then twisting them into the ground to prop up our hammocks and cook pots.
Times, Sunday Times
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Life is a kind of pressure. We should learn to prop up ourselves.
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I hesitate to leap on the paranoid bus and say the media is actively suppressing knowledge of how crazy Hagee is in order to prop up McCain, but if Bruce Wilson's documentation of Hagee's intoleration - and McCain's refusal to dissociate himself with him - doesn't lead to headlines and tv news stories, then there is little choice but to think They are up to no good.
Hullabaloo
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It only means that they alone cannot prop up a civilization; they answer wonderfully to the practical side of life, but do nothing for the passional side of life.
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Steve and his girlfriend Amy busied themselves with a cheesecake to prop up the just-picked blackberries and raspberries from the garden.
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The first team currently lie mid-table in the York and District League division one, while the reserves prop up reserve ‘B’.
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So wittingly or not, these corporations are helping to prop up a government notorious for its sheer awfulness and brutality.
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Copland was trying to prop up a nationalist mythology, admittedly from a leftist perspective, but hardly as revolutionary as 1920s Europe.
Just Another Rhumb Line
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The government used to prop up prices by paying farmers to keep land fallow, setting floor prices for some commodities and building stock reserves.
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Lace locks cinch and secure four mini-poles that prop up the roomy corners.
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Government has financially propped up the Business Sector recently so that the Business Sectorcan "sell more" at the retail sectorthrough taxpayer Stimulus Packages and Corporate Bailouts,. butin the interimhavefailed to prop up our Nation's low income Workers and retired SeniorCitizenswith "additional" monthly income bailouts so that theycan "purchase more" at the retail sector in order to sustain their present living standard and also their family or individual livelihood.
OpEdNews - Diary: Documented Reasons Why The Business Sector Should Be Denied Tax Cuts in 2009
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KLOZA: Well I think these investigations always turn up that they haven't done anything collusively and they haven't gotten together to do anything to sort of prop up prices.
CNN Transcript Apr 22, 2006
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Life is a kind of pressure. We should learn to prop up ourselves.
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Governments have no resources, so for those same governments to prop up the losers, they must by definition shackle the winners.
Forbes.com: News
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US forces intervened in the mid-1960s to prop up the stooge government of South Vietnam, against the North.
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The setting up of an Assets Management Corporation to consolidate bad debts transferred from commercial banks would only prop up the rich.
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Put an upturned eggcup in the middle of the dish to prop up the pastry.
Times, Sunday Times
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The setting up of an Assets Management Corporation to consolidate bad debts transferred from commercial banks would only prop up the rich.
