How To Use Propping up In A Sentence
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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.
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And all of this is aimed at propping up the leeching bludgers from the non-industry superannuation sector.
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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
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That frees up general revenue funds which could go to propping up Social Security down the road.
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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
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Her bedcovers were pulled up tightly around her knees, her pillows propping up her head, and her reading lamp on.
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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
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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
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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.
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Weeks of carpet bombing, a full-scale invasion and years propping up a successor regime would be required, he said.
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Bank supervisors, through lax supervision, had become instruments of this policy of propping up favored borrowers.
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And if there's one thing we should consider as the debate rages up on high about propping up this addled dotard, it's GM's long string of criminal, that's right, criminal, behavior over the last century.
Rebekah and Stephen Hren: Let GM Get Crushed Like It Crushed the EV1
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The problem for teachers who are passionate about teaching is that they live in the Bushian Nightmare of educational testing companies, textbook publishers, educational software vendors, and other "monied" friends of the Republicans propping up the mediocrity campaigns of tin-horn pedagogic dictators like Johnson who want to quash the programs that will produce the next generation of scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and performers of our cultural heritages.
Brian Ross: Magnet Education Attracts Unwelcome Clash With No Child Left Behind
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One should really feel sorry for people whose egos are so weak as to need propping up in that way.
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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
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As for the kids, could getting the little nointers trackside be a way of propping up the state's struggling racing industry?
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Their irresponsible propping up of George W. Bush cost them their credibility, and the inflammatory insanities of mercurial GOP teabaggers, birthers, deathers and desperate egomaniacs like Jim Bunning are costing them their viability.
Think Progress » Former Bush speechwriter tells GOP: Democrats’ passage of health care is actually ‘our’ Waterloo.
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Over the next few days, details of new plans for propping up the Greek economy with more external money and for renegotiating the terms of some private debt will doubtlessly be announced in a hail of commentary suggesting that the end of the Greek tragedy is nigh.
Sterling Could Be Next for a Pounding
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A hand propping up his head shows his disinterest in the conversation.
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Other projects have shown how the Indian continent is propping up the entire Himalayan mountain chain.
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Unfortunately, the Democrats who run Washington believe in this time of fiscal challenges we should continue propping up government programs that overspend and underdeliver.
House votes to end foreclosure-assistance program
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Nobody likes that the government had to outlay money the way that they have in rescuing banks and propping up the states with Recovery Act money.
CNN Poll: Slight majority approve of Obama on economy
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Dennis and the others were propping up the bar, Karen was supposedly selecting duty-free perfume.
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The modern team are on a losing streak and are propping up Division One.
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Their irresponsible propping up of George W. Bush cost them their credibility, and the dysfunctions of teabaggers, birthers and deathers exacerbated by the irresponsible exhortations of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh are costing them their viability.
Think Progress » Tea Partiers Get Their News From Fox And Are More Likely To Justify Violence Against The Government
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Their irresponsible propping up of George W. Bush cost them their credibility, and the inflammatory insanities of mercurial GOP teabaggers, birthers, deathers and desperate egomaniacs like Glenn Beck are costing them their viability.
Think Progress » Neugebauer Won’t Apologize To House For Outburst That His GOP Colleague Calls ‘More Wrong’ Than Joe Wilson’s
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When most male observational comics are trying to come across as the kind of regular blokes you might find propping up the bar at your local, Godliman's more the waspish girl in the corner with a glass of white wine who's smarter than the lot of them put together.
This week's new comedy
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The reason this photo touches a nerve right now is because it hits, in the most graphic and "unspun" way, at America's frenzied resuscitation effort in propping up Afghanistan, its political system and especially, its military.
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There is a downside to propping up the dollar, particularly for American manufacturers, which is why the administration has been jawboning the Big Three to let the dollar slide a bit.
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You can imagine him propping up the bar at a 16th-century tavern, his jokes the sort "to make fools laugh in the alehouse".
Othello; Grief; St Matthew Passion – review
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Other fast food chains are propping up the higher end of their menus with Angus beef burgers at Hardee's and fancy salads at Wendy's.
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It may have even strong-armed a few banks into propping up the market.
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Propping up the bottom of the top 100 was, you guessed it, another compilation of repeat film footage.
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It should stop propping up right-wing repressive regimes, and should not crush attempts at reforms and the redistribution of wealth.
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Indeed, if you were to find a magickal book lying around -- oh, say in the back of a cabinet, or propping up a vase of fresh umbrel flowers -- you might find just such a sight as you see here, leaping out at you from the page.
November 2008
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MOGADISHU (AFP) - African Union forces propping up Somali government troops launched an offensive against Islamist rebels in Mogadishu Monday, killing at least 11 people, mainly fighters, officials said.
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Propping up his head on his hand, he gazed about in the room, the fumes of markers and paint lingering from the previous class.
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The spectacle of a backwater state and nation, proudly propping up its weapons and military whilst languishing in pre-modern conditions and deifying its national leaders so as to maintain a totalitarian society is not just a joke.
Bernard Rowan: Oh, My Korea
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The rope was lashed to a wooden beam propping up the craft's skeleton in a manner meant to evoke the contraptions that Chinese children use to catch birds.
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The mainly keystone is:excavation and maintenance groudsill pit, propping up pond wall moulding board and casting pond wall concrete.
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You can usually find him propping up the bar of the Red Lion.
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They hate us because we're hyporcrits propping up tinhorn dictators in their countries at their expense.
Rudy's Strategy: Refighting The War With Liberals He Won In The 1990s
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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.
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What we appear to be doing is propping up insolvent banks, which remain insolvent, until the situation becomes sufficiently dire again that they need more taxpayer funds.
The Bailout and Nationalization
