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It was a question of propping up what was left of my old life.

With every other nation spending like drunken sailors, Germany is being forced towards propping up the system with its credit rating.

Dubai also announced one of its sovereign funds would start buying domestic real estate, another attempt at propping up the market.

Audi has done so well that it is now propping up the rest of the group: its margins are double those at VW.

When asked if the story may come across as a nationalistic piece propping up China, Mr. Bale said he has never viewed it as such.

Markets remain fragile. Even Goldman would struggle to make money without the array of government backstops propping up the system.

Billions of pounds have been spent propping up the banking sector - something which has sent government borrowing through the roof.

Other projects have shown how the Indian continent is propping up the entire Himalayan mountain chain.

The last few months have shown an improvement as government-mandated measures aimed at propping up growth filtered through to the economy.

The utility model provides a cocoon-picking rack, comprising a rectangular frame, a foldable support, and a propping up line.

In the worst cases, he says foreign business is propping up schools that do not provide a good education.

However, propping up stock prices has not been the over-riding goal of the US Government actions in the market.

Some Cuban-American leaders denounce the changes as simply propping up the Castro brothers with American dollars.

A second European says that governments should focus on ensuring individual workers are employable, not propping up uncompetitive firms.

If it spends its trillions, it will be at home, not in propping up others.

Official institutions have been propping up the ailing market.

But behind the scenes they are propping up the worst possible regimes like those in Myanmar, North Korea and Iran.

Many Americans feel queasy about propping up a regime in Kabul that has put warlords in charge of several provinces.

Money loaned to state-owned enterprises and local government-related entities spurred heavy investment, in turn propping up overall growth.

"That the golden colour of the sunshine should keep propping up before my eyes. . . " .

But beyond railway expansion and housing construction, policy-driven investment could be propping up capacity that the market doesn't want.

Scientists can be as garrulous as politicians when propping up a bar.

Many younger Chinese must find it embarrassing that Beijing is propping up such an odious regime.

Stability overwhelms everything, safely propping up harmoniously.

China's credit lines also are propping up investment in natural resources, keeping global supplies from cratering as investment dries up.

Without the federal government propping up Wall Street, Goldman, like most firms, probably would have failed.

Housing prices are still falling, but housing costs are propping up a key inflation index.

Unlike the Soviet Union, NATO is propping up a reasonably popular government.

Germany has deep strategic interests in propping up the euro.

Mr Obama is propping up banks, managing car firms, re-writing mortgage contracts and chasing white-collar criminals.

As far as I can tell, it has gone mostly into propping up corporate balance sheets.

For now, new investors hoping to strike it rich are propping up stocks like some huge, multi-million-person pyramid scheme.

Fearing a huge influx of refugees, it is focused solely on propping up the Kim dynasty.

Be what kind of psychology potential energy is propping up them to wade continuously at lotic dangerous shoal?

But he didn't give up hope always, propping up him to the passion of life.

Propping up prices will delay the inevitable correction, but it will not stop it.

Governments have spent trillions propping up banks and staving off depression.

Firm triangular framework is propping up a desktop.

Now it is busy propping up failed companies such as General Motors and throwing huge sums of money at the public sector.

At present the newspaper-loving baby-boomers are propping up circulation.

The European Central Bank, which has been propping up Italian debt on the markets since August, received similar commitments in the past.

That's what he was doing, propping up the bed because the bed simply didn't work.

Oil firms fined for illegally propping up diesel prices.

adj. The government was accused of propping up declining industries.

It is bad enough that governments have diverted resources into propping up failing companies such as General Motors.

I needed some steadying and some propping-up myself.

For now, this is propping up global demand for traded goods.

And surely the West should stop propping up the Yemeni dictator, Ali Abdullah Saleh, whose forces have just shot dead dozens of protesters?

There are certainly valid concerns that speculation is propping up housing prices in China.

who is hemmed in by antipathy among taxpayers back home to propping up profligate Greeks and others.

If you want to know where Tom is, he is probably propping up the bar in the Golden Bowl.

Propping up demand may therefore require more persistent, and sustained, budget deficits than in Japan.

Intelligence and wisdom is the lever propping up the society.

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