In the economic sphere, Cuba has promoted Internet development in areas that can generate hard currency and shore up the regime economically. |
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When a firm is taken over, for example, there is no obligation on the new owner to shore up a fund in deficit. |
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He flew to a military base to shore up his support in the face of unfavourable polls and growing unease in Washington about the conflict. |
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Cardoso appeals to the spirit of the nation's soccer fans to shore up the confidence of the country. |
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The government wants all workers to take out a second, private, pension to shore up the declining state pension. |
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Indeed, the system's efforts to shore up its flagship call center appear to be paying off beyond just good will. |
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Now both seem likely to return to the transfer market to shore up their resources in the position. |
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Four veteran starters were signed as free agents to shore up the middle of the league's most porous defense. |
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Mahathir has attempted to shore up his position by trying to distance the government from corruption allegations. |
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This morning he arrived in Turkey to shore up White House relations with a key U. S. ally. |
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The English have made a host of changes, primarily to shore up their defence. |
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Cable operators could also see the new airwaves as a way to shore up their business models. |
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To shore up the decaying gazebo, they replaced the footings, added tongue-and-groove cedar on the ceiling, and reroofed with cedar shingles. |
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Analysts expect that bancassurers such as Abbey National and Lloyds TSB will have to shore up their life divisions should markets fall further. |
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On to Egypt now, where a new integrated resort community could help shore up an ailing economy. |
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Teams are building concrete piles which will shore up the walls of the car park ramp and tunnel. |
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But also it does not want to shore up companies which have been mismanaging their pensions or not contributing adequately. |
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Any resources he must commit to shore up his position there are necessarily resources unavailable to him in swing states. |
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The Central Committee's plenum reiterated its determination to shore up the party's ability to govern the country. |
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The fatal fraud was the result of his action in buying quantities of shares in a distilling firm in an effort to shore up the share price. |
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They were able to gain access a second time only after additional work to shore up the badly damaged structure. |
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The first step is to recognise what is going on, and to take steps to shore up the machicolated and moth-eaten institution in which I now sit. |
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He expects Chirac will launch a fierce attack on Britain to shore up his domestic support. |
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Willow will be planted to shore up the banks of the River Devon and wetland created to soak up water on neighbouring hilltops. |
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This is the last chance for the lame-duck president to shore up his legacy. |
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Meanwhile, Iran is already working to shore up its Shi'ite allies in Baghdad. |
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He had earlier instructed Cabinet officials to shore up their efforts in pushing for the passage of bills recommended by the Economic Development Advisory Conference. |
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She's also been experimenting with gabions, rectangular wire-mesh baskets filled with rocks that are used to shore up riverbanks in the West and beyond. |
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A plan to place rock-filled wire gabions to shore up the coastline was denied by the local town council because of the area's environmental sensitivity. |
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The Yangtze flood crest will roll on downriver toward Wuhan, a city of more than 7 million people already working frantically to shore up its defenses. |
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Before it went under, the lender admitted that its efforts to shore up capital had come to nothing. |
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Each of us believes what we choose to believe, and facts have become bricks to shore up the fortress of our own biases. |
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Implanted during angioplasty, they shore up the walls of the newly unclogged artery. |
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This is to shore up the balance sheet while he gets to grips with a lengthy repair job. |
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The Fed's sandbag strategy will help ward off disaster, but it won't shore up a sagging economy. |
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On a related issue, there were moneys moved out of the pension fund to help shore up the insurance thing at different stages. |
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Agriculture did a little tour on P. E. I. last Friday to shore up his nominated candidates. |
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We are moving to shore up measures that encourage patients to rationalize their health expenditures. |
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The rear of the boot is built up to shore up the ankle, which is constantly under pressure in the free technique. |
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An additional investment, to shore up salaries and to ensure adequate training, is indicated. |
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As a first response, TEPM distributed emergency food aid and plastic tarps to shore up the temporary shelters. |
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Surprisingly, the mines used huge amounts of wood, not just to fuel the steam boilers, but also to shore up the unstable tunnels. |
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They see it as necessary economic policy to shore up consumer confidence in stock markets, as well as in the rest of the financial sector. |
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Both Saputo and Agropur say their respective acquisitions will help to shore up and expand their companies' activities south of the border. |
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Governance should therefore shore up the integration of education with poverty reduction planning, with a specific focus on equity. |
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Chalk has never been used to shore up a monument in this way before. |
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Centuries ago in China, workers buried adobe blocks to shore up buildings. |
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Flooding is an annual curse for the Chinese people, but there is a desperation surrounding attempts to shore up the crumbling banks of Dongting Lake. |
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Will direct marketing shore up this weak spot in our defenses? |
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An awful lot of your money being used to shore up Bank of America. |
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It has taken more than that so far to just relocate the population and shore up the buildings. |
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In an attempt to shore up his credibility, Chirac tried to distance himself from the referendum debacle by pinning the blame on his prime minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin. |
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As a result, south-east Asia's biggest oil producer is ransacking its foreign exchange reserves to pay for imported oil and to shore up its currency. |
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Saudi Arabia and the conservative Arab monarchs have signalled their willingness to divert part of their sovereign wealth funds to shore up Pakistan. |
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He then went on to welcome the involvement of Saudi Arabia to shore up Maliki's leadership, and possibly join the present trilateral security committee in Baghdad. |
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Overly-systematic people and those motivated by ideologies heap up factors to shore up their hypothesis, most often without ever having met or questioned the seer or charismatic. |
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Henry II rushed to north Wales for a few days to shore up defences there, before returning to his main army now gathering in Oswestery. |
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As long as the Soviet Union existed, U. S. imperialism acted to shore up the Seoul regime as an anti-Communist bulwark, allowing it to develop its own shipbuilding and auto manufacturing industries. |
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But he also said that verbal or direct market intervention to shore up the flagging U. S. dollar would only have fleeting effects if it wasn't ultimately supported by policy moves. |
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The bank had said last year that it would use the Chinese currency to shore up value of the cedi. |
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Each operation is a chance to shore up and give shape to the partnerships. |
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Because SIRC found certain elements of the policy to be underdeveloped, the Committee recommended several concrete steps to shore up Service practice and thinking on this subject. |
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This is common in developing countries where corrupt regimes have used the public sector to shore up support and to reward cronies with top positions. |
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Action must continue to be taken in a bid to shore up proper social security systems, which serve to redistribute wealth and are instruments of solidarity. |
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We are working hard to shore up the advances made to date, and to move forward to build a third-millennium economy centered around the port in Doraleh and the free zone. |
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A higher than otherwise corn price will encourage more feeder-cattle feeding in Canada thereby helping to shore up domestic feed grain consumptive potential in the coming six or more months. |
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What's more, mentoring programs can help firms shore up their retention rates and groom future firm leaders. |
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Even the famed Ffestiniog Railway acquired a Baldwin locomotive to shore up the fleet working the Welsh Highland Railway which it now owned. |
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In the past, the federal government has used fiscal federalism to shore up support for the regime or provide incentives for accepting political deals. |
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The struggle against the aristocracy turned into wholesale slaughter, while the Emperor resorted to ever more ruthless measures to shore up his regime. |
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He needed something bold and dramatic to shore up his failing candidacy. |
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They hastened outside between storms to shore up the damaged fence. |
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The county is working to shore up a short stretch of Sweet Creek Road about 2 miles southwest of Mapleton, where an old retaining wall built in the 1970s is failing. |
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Morrow would like eventually to deliver replicons containing genes that encode proteins that shore up damaged neurons and rejuvenate nearby supporting cells. |
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