How To Use propping up In A Sentence
- Besides cleaning up barf, breaking up fights and propping up staggering patrons, owners and waiters can get sued if overly-lubricated lushes kill or injure someone on their drive home.
- And all of this is aimed at propping up the leeching bludgers from the non-industry superannuation sector.
- So we're left with an anti-relativism argument that traffics in relativism, an anti-corporate argument framed in corporate terms, and an Adorno/Horkheimer name-drop without enough self-realization to notice that the exclusionary schema it's propping up is a mirror-image recapitulation of what Adorno and Horkheimer were warning against. Archive 2009-07-01
- That frees up general revenue funds which could go to propping up Social Security down the road.
- Books were strewn all over the kitchen, sat in stacks against the wall, propping up every piece of furniture. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
- Her bedcovers were pulled up tightly around her knees, her pillows propping up her head, and her reading lamp on.
- Every time a shingle is added to the gimcrack, ramshackle governance structure that we're propping up, another door falls off its hinges. Archive 2009-04-01
- But while keeping up the charade may be saving the ECB some short-term embarrassment, its existing policies of propping up insolvent banks and governments are only increasing the cost of the euro-zone crisis in the long term. Europe's Bad Bank
- At one stage the European No 1 was in the ignominious position of propping up the field in 60th place, but his rally at the end restored some dignity.
- Weeks of carpet bombing, a full-scale invasion and years propping up a successor regime would be required, he said.
