How To Use shoring up In A Sentence
- 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.
- 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
- 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
