Bank profits are being channelled into shoring up their balance sheets, rather than new investments. |
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Widespread opposition to a proposed Afghan law is less about liberating women than shoring up Western authority. |
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Pity she had not organised a photo opportunity with the goodly restaurateur, giving both of them great publicity, and shoring up her image. |
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More pressingly, promiscuity has always been a useful tool in shoring up prejudice, whether that be homophobia or gender war. |
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Chances are that while you are there a carpenter or glazier will be at work shoring up as window or correcting a lean. |
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The money could be spent on shoring up doors and windows as well as measures to protect interiors and wiring. |
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Broken cultures therapeutically confabulate, mythologise former ways of life, and fight off meaninglessness by shoring up crumbling identities. |
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Nevertheless, for Thagard, there are still ways of shoring up coherence with varying degrees of vigour. |
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Beams spanning the roof to shoring towers on either side were located slightly offset from roof arches, which align with skylight mullions. |
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At issue is a megabuck Pentagon jet deal that could go a long way toward shoring up Boeing's bottom line. |
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There was a host of tasks, from shoring up the fire escape to re-wiring to new windows. |
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Follow his advice and you'll turbocharge muscle growth, drive up your metabolism, and increase your bone density, while shoring up your joints. |
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A mind-set has emerged busying itself with quick fixes, stopping change or shoring up its excesses. |
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Speed Shore's Shoring Shields combine the benefits of aluminum hydraulic shoring with the solid-wall security of a static shield. |
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The shoring was removed, so that the tunnel started to collapse, and protesters were dragged out by ropes attached to handcuffs. |
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Therefore, our tunnels were about two feet in diameter with no bracing or shoring of any kind. |
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The shoring also enabled the construction of new foundations without disrupting existing utility systems. |
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Teams of carpenters and laborers begin positioning column forms and setting up shoring for the floor above. |
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Removing the rusty metal presented us with a somewhat unstable-looking climb down of about 4m complete with plenty of scaffolding shoring. |
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Justified or not, the call for reparations seems to me to be based around shoring up racial tensions rather than diffusing them. |
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To erect the trusses, the steel erector used twelve 78-ft-tall shoring towers, one under each tip of each cantilever. |
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Party strategists know it is unlikely to win new seats, so they will concentrate on shoring up support in ones they already hold. |
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We are already well on our way to shoring up the country's financial market. |
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This is the syndrome of shoring up the old rather than sustaining of the new. |
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But because they are some distance away from the older basement walls and footings, there was no shoring of existing foundation required during construction. |
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We needed shoring up in mid field, where they were over-running us, and a bit more energy and passion into the cup tie against the best team in the country. |
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It is joyous stuff, evoking for me not only happy days of yore in Len's studio but also shoring up my belief that Len's cutlines were masterpieces of the English language. |
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Given the stringent requirement that no temporary shoring be used in the river during erection, cantilever construction was deemed the most suitable method. |
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The amount of aid needed is small by international standards but will go a long way in shoring up the fledging state. |
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This strategy centres on shoring up systemically important institutions so that they can be more resilient and resume their market-making role. |
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The sharp global rebound was good to primary producers, shoring up demand and giving prices a boost in the oil and base metals categories. |
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In some cases privacy needs shoring up and in other cases it may need to adjust to further the public good. |
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All the more so because Mr Erdoğan made his comments in Germany, where he was meant to be shoring up Turkey's case. |
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Dangerously unstable, it was accessible only because of shoring timbers and jackposts installed by a rescue team from Martinique. |
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Moving on... after shoring myself up financially, I headed off to St. Kitts for a while. |
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Two days after the attack, Urban Search and Rescue crews from Montgomery County, Virginia worked to clear debris and strengthen temporary shoring at the disaster site. |
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In a few hours, with the aid of some telephone poles and some shoring, the Chinese lifted the wing, Tex lowered the gear and drove the down lock in with a sledge hammer. |
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Analysts say a more aggressive American approach to shoring up the opposition leadership may now be underway. |
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Why, then, is he focusing so intently upon stabilizing Afghanistan instead of shoring up Islamabad first and foremost? |
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Now that the euro is ablaze, some Tory Eurosceptics want to park in front of the fire station, blocking treaty changes aimed at shoring up the currency unless the EU returns swathes of powers to British control. |
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This too requires wood and wood products for shoring and form work. |
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The city is shoring up coastal protection in the Rockaways. |
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Use on shoring, scaffolding and forming equipment and hardware, including post shores, scaffold frames and planks, aluminum deck beams and joists, column clamps, waler rods and shebolts. |
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Treat form brackets, tie rods, concrete buckets, shoring and scaffolding daily or as required to soften existing concrete buildup and prevent future accumulations. |
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For the liberal middle classes of Budapest, the latest outrage in Orbán's Hungary is the world's first internet tax, a gigabyte levy denounced at home and abroad as an assault on free speech while shoring up the budget. |
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Their grandiose self-beliefs are built on foundations as solid as quicksand, hence the need for constant admiration and attention, shoring up their unstable sense of self. |
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Mr. Messier is also busy shoring up his balance sheet. |
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For Mr Rudd that seems of less importance than shoring up votes at home. |
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In addition to shoring up their after-tax incomes, the working poor also need help with other things: access to affordable child care, subsidized housing, and health and dental benefits. |
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It is becoming increasingly clear that shoring up the authority of the non-proliferation regime will be very difficult unless there are steady and progressive reductions of nuclear arsenals. |
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Over the last 20 years, governments in this country have focused on shoring up the financial security of children and senior citizens, and they've made great strides on both fronts. |
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Henry set about extending royal justice in England to reassert his authority and spent time in Normandy shoring up support amongst the barons. |
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Also if the ground is weak, the cost of shoring up a long adit may outweigh its possible advantages. |
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Sometimes it's easier to laminate the strips one at a time, shoring each in place only long enough for the epoxy to set. |
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Meanwhile, money is being poured into shoring up the Chalk River reactor, and, potentially, your group suggested building a new research facility. |
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Do your retirement savings need shoring up? |
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Since then, banking institutions have been focusing on shoring up their balance sheets and reducing their exposure, and are maintaining greater liquidity in order to deal with potential problems. |
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Quite the contrary, R2P must be seen as a means of reinforcing legality in international affairs and as a way of shoring up respect for the international system embodied in the United Nations. |
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Operational success in the cases of Burundi and Sierra Leone could be important for shoring up the credibility of the United Nations more generally. |
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Many larger banks, brokerage firms, and real estate companies successfully launched capital raises, shoring up balance sheets and investor confidence. |
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This would increase consumer throughput in dealerships, thus shoring up vehicle sales, while providing concurrent safety and environmental benefits. |
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That means shoring up euro-zone sovereign debt. |
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Yes, Europe's obsession with shoring up its borders and its determination to focus the weight of its administration on third countries that destroy freedom, are lethal. |
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In turn, a pickup in sales may help stem the slump in property values, which is key to shoring up household finances and construction as the economy begins to emerge from the recession. |
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One such image is of three pillars shoring up sustainable development, each equally warranted and each equal in value, one economic, one social and one environmental. |
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Here we are, trying to move this great European project forwards, not by shoring up privileges that have come about by accidents of history, but by opening the door to the new. |
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It also participated in the emergence of local entrepreneurs by giving them the means to become business owners, or assisted the development of their businesses by shoring up their equity capital. |
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Offering superior strength and versatility, it can be used in a wide range of shoring projects. |
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Its client base offers some clear advantages: it is less exposed to downwards economical cycles and to the threat of off shoring and it has a solvable client base. |
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In the short term, that may be the case and it may be necessary for BOC, BB and even IO to get involved in shoring up and remedying the control problems that should normally be handled by line management. |
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Individual towers are connected with one another to form a framework unit which, for the civil engineering sector, creates a very cost-effective combination of shoring towers and birdcage scaffolding. |
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The standard requires protective systems like shielding, shoring and other support systems, or walls benched or sloped so that a cave-in cannot occur. |
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Works include the W demolition of a former caretaker's house, renovation of a disused track and the shoring up of old cellars to prevent cave-ins. |
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The workers were shoring up the dock after part of it fell into the water. |
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The Cyber Park was established to provide the support and facilities required by firms in the high technology sectors off shoring their operations. |
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