| The tunnels were shored up by timber and after 85 years, many of these timber supports are rotting away. |
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| Wall Street had hoped that it would be shored up by a combination of patriotism and efforts by the Federal Reserve. |
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| Once the floor had caved in it was vandalistically shored up by rusty scaffold and girders by the Council. |
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| Mr. Ye not only shored up the building's structure, but also had students and teachers prepare for a disaster. |
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| Once the floor beams were securely shored up with bricks, the school girls carried plywood for the flooring. |
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| The sociological truism is that a societal order is shored up by its legitimations, which provide the defenses against its despisers. |
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| The building has since been shored up by more than five miles of scaffolding. |
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| Tunnel roofs are shored up with some 21,000 iron bolts driven 8 to 10 feet into the overhead rock. |
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| A volunteer Orkney road safety group looks set to be financially shored up with an annual grant from the council. |
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| On one side, where it threatened to fall over into the garden, it was shored up with baulks of timber, driftwood picked up on the strand. |
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| But that, he said, was really a political deal, shored up with appropriate penances. |
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| Police and the fire brigade were called, and the fire brigade shored up the wall with four hydraulic jacks. |
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| As recovery efforts continue, the structure is being shored up with pressure-treated wood posts to protect against further collapses. |
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| He says it has had to be shored up by millions of pounds of taxpayers' money over the years. |
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| The foundations had to be shored up, the main staircase substantially repaired, and missing parts of the rear elevation rebuilt. |
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| During construction it was shored up with piles and the new building built around it. |
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| Accordingly the aircraft has to be hangared, shored and jigged to proper alignment position. |
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| The first phase of restoration, which was completed two years ago, shored up the brick masonry on the northeast corner. |
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| Each trichord was erected in 90-ft lengths assembly-line fashion, one at a time, onto three falsework towers shored off the mechanical level framing. |
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| Exterior cast-in-place shored walkways surround the theaters and are protected with a cantilevered architectural concrete roof system, shaded and glassed in. |
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| As well, ceremonial campaigns shored up the nobility, while built-in brakes kept devastation within bounds. |
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| Furthermore, some of the exposed walls visible round the site are shored up by large beams or are partially covered by black sheeting underneath battens. |
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| Balconies were shored up with boards, holding them in place after their supports had rotted completely away. |
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| Now he has been sidelined. For his part, Mr Hollande has staved off a crisis in the party, and shored up his personal credibility. |
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| Instead of being shaken up and set on new foundations, banks were shored up incrementally. |
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| The result shored up third spot on the AFL ladder for the Cats and set up a qualifying final clash with arch-rivals Hawthorn. |
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| Many of his colleagues are unwilling to accept that Social Security's finances cannot be shored up simply by raising taxes on the rich. |
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| Sales were shored up in particular by the performance of the two most important markets, Germany and Switzerland. |
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| We might be able to help the United Nations in this endeavour, so that their moral prestige is also shored up financially. |
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| We are entering a time of substantial restraint This is one area that can be shored up and supported by the Liberal government. |
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| Companies have stepped up their recruitment rates, which in turn has shored up household consumption. |
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| Guinea shored up these changes with a national information campaign that stressed the value and importance of girls' education. |
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| We are seeing water being pumped, the levees being shored up again. |
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| Their jobs are being revolutionized by information technology or off shored to English-speaking Indians. |
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| If houses were present these could be used to conceal the mine opening. As the mine progressed the roof was shored with timbers. |
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| This reading is shored up by the Commission's statement in the Council minutes in connection with the adoption of the common position concerning Article 2 on the notion of the contract. |
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| After stumbling from one spate of bad news to the next, Mr Wahid at last seemed to have shored up enough support to make it through the MPR session in more or less one piece. |
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| In fact, far from auguring the monarchy's fall, the public outpouring actually shored up the royal family. |
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| Henry shored up his position by executing all other possible claimants whenever any excuse was offered, a policy his son Henry VIII continued. |
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| These port areas then became prime areas for setting up industrial processing activities, particularly in developing countries after industries were off shored by developed countries. |
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| The Standards Council of Canada urges each SDO to insist that standards be shored up with strict provisions and compliance measures, in order to protect the SDO's mark. |
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| In the early 1860s, following the eruption of diplomatic tensions between the United States and Britain over the Trent Affair, Britain shored up its inadequate defences in North America. |
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| Over the past ten years, GUAM's member countries have shored up their independence and made remarkable strides in reinforcing their democratic institutions and enhancing their economic potential. |
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| The result was that in early August the main German drive east halted, while Guderian and Hoth shored up their flanks and defended their gains. |
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| And while Morgan City has a 6-meter floodwall that is expected to protect the town, workers have rushed sandbags into place and shored up levees just in case. |
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| They claim that a co-existing program, shored up by premium support, would leave Medicare only the sickest, poorest patients and drive up government costs. |
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| Colletti not only shored up third base defensively, but more importantly, blocked the division leading Padres from filling their greatest need, a third basemen. |
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| Ryvita has shored up its crispbread and rice cake options this year by moving into the crisp market for the first time with a baked line called Limbos. |
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