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Mr Netanyahu's supporters say that he is simply trying to shore up his right flank before embarking on substantive negotiations.

As recently as last July, when RBS was struggling to shore up its balance sheet, executives insisted the bank would not sell its BoC stake.

The Treasury played down suggestions that it was making emergency contingency plans to shore up Lloyds let alone nationalise the bank.

The next few months will be tough, but giving the Civic a decent debut would at least help shore up the brand.

So far, the U. S. and its allies have preferred to shore up the political arm of Syria's opposition.

If he had not acted decisively to shore up the financial system and stimulate the economy, things would have been a great deal worse.

However, efforts to shore up financial sectors in the U. S. and Europe are still 'far from what we need, ' he said.

But he said there must be a more "comprehensive, integrated" plan to shore up the region's finances and calm investor fears.

We all look at me very nervous, had no choice but to step aside to shore up the ship.

There was little doubt but that an agreement to sell or shore up the firm had to be reached over the weekend.

But now that it has happened, it is still a fine excuse to shore up the police state and lock everything down.

Mark Zuckerberg has said that he will not sell any of his shares in Facebook for at least one year in a bid to shore up investor confidence.

In an interview with CNBC last week, Zell said filing for bankruptcy was a "preemptive" move to shore up the company for the future.

At the moment, Chinese banks are busy raising funds to shore up their capital base after a year of massive lending.

In Shanghai, government moves to shore up the markets continued to boost confidence.

Russia is setting aside up to $40bn for this year and next to shore up the economy in case the eurozone crisis should escalate and spread.

McCain also faces a lingering challenge in trying to shore up support among conservative Republicans.

Of more concern is that the plan, if it were approved, would neither shore up the financial system nor save the American economy.

Mr. Obama says helping the financial sector is one aspect of an all-out effort to shore up the U. S. economy.

S. policies in Afghanistan and Pakistan that have failed to counter the Taliban or shore-up the two countries' U. S. -allied governments.

So my feeling is that this is an attempt to shore up the great firewall which doesn't work a lot of the time.

The company may offload part of its stake to outside investors to shore up its cash flow and counter the retail market slowdown.

He suspected some kind of hacker assault and had spent the weekend helping to shore up the company's systems.

As Ken Rogoff of Harvard University puts it, the Fed is "taking advantage of a respite in the financial crisis to shore up the dollar" .

Unfortunately, over the last decade, we have not done what is necessary to shore up the foundation of our own prosperity.

Now, the government is taking a step to shore up the reputation of that most dubious of national sports icons: the men's soccer team.

Eurozone leaders seem to think that seeking outside money to help resolve their debt problems will shore up confidence.

But Negroponte's visit was being seen by many in Pakistan as an attempt to shore up President Pervez Musharraf.

The report said the buying began Thursday and aims to 'shore up their share prices amid stock market slumps. '

Federal officials briefed the president on efforts to shore-up levees along the Mississippi River and help those displaced by the flooding.

However, he believes that, with the right strategy, the company can create competitive barriers to shore up its dominant position.

Ringing statements that the big economies would do whatever it took to shore up the system had real value.

To shore up Yuganskneftegaz, its main production unit, Yukos arranged for a loan from one of its offshore affiliates, Yukos Capital.

sending a strong expeditionary force to check the Japanese advance and shore up the Korean king.

It was a cornerstone of a three-year restructuring he had engineered to shore up Cisco's profits.

Obama's visit to Israel is being seen by many analysts as an attempt to shore up his support with U. S. Jewish voters.

South Korea, however, said at the weekend that it wanted to boost its property market to shore up the troubled construction industry.

But for now, the Fed is right to let markets find their own footing and demand the government does its part to shore up the economy.

Analysts say that is not enough to shore up prices of aluminium, widely used in the slumping construction and automobile industries.

Analysts estimate that China lenders have raised close to Rmb700bn from capital markets so far this year to shore up their balance sheets.

They tried to shore up the failing economy by means of tax increases.

The trouble with the bank acting tough to shore up its reputation is that the Treasury is engaged in a similar exercise.

'What you've seen in Europe is really the rights issues to shore up the balance sheet, then moving into secondary placings again.

The government is now trying to shore up credibility.

Our fifth approach is to shore up traditional sources of our influence, including economic strength and the power of our example.

He may soon be heading back for a trip seeking to shore up the support that keeps his destitute and derelict state alive.

The original Bernanke-Paulson plan largely was a plan to shore up the derivatives while doing little about the underlying assets.

Meanwhile, to shore up his political base, President Barack Obama might amplify the millionaire-bashing theme of his re-election campaign.

Though his liberal stance won the electoral college, Patriarch Daniel will still have much to do to shore up his church against its critics.

These cost cuts helped to shore up profits at a time of diminishing demand.

A stronger yuan would shore up the profitability of these businesses.

With the transfer window about to open, will Mourinho seek to shore up his depleted defence?

Officials in Berlin are privately sceptical that Commerzbank can keep to its pledge to shore up its capital without using more state funds.

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Does the structure accentuate the strengths, shore up the weaknesses, and support the motivations of the team members?

Earlier Thursday, the ECB dashed investor hopes it would signal strong action to shore up the euro zone's ailing bond markets.

Venezuela in the past has been among the first to call for aggressive action to shore up prices.

Other times we're challenged at least to shore up and strengthen our view.

Ministers are attempting to shore up a fragile world recovery against the threat posed by the eurozone debt crisis.

And unlike Greece, Portugal moved relatively quickly to shore up its public finances with a combination of spending cuts and tax increases.

Countries as diverse as Germany, Brazil, Singapore, and Thailand can offer ways for the U. S. to shore up its economy.

The companies said the deal would shore up funding for Grange's planned US$1. 6 billion Southdown iron-ore project.

The debates about whether government money should be used to shore up struggling car industries neatly encapsulate these sorts of dilemmas.

To shore up its balance-sheet, GM is planning to cut its debt by $11 billion, saving $500m a year in servicing costs.

Mainline Protestants, however, seemed delighted by the festival, and may well latch on to the emergents to shore up their shrinking numbers.

Already, scores of nations are taking aggressive measures to try to stanch the flood of incoming dollars and shore up faltering industries.

Amid weekend reports that Brown would be asked to make a repayment, he moved quickly to shore up his position.

It has been suffering from slow growth in recent years and was forced to sell assets to shore up its bottom line.

Entrepreneurs, businessmen, senior executives, actors, writers and other groups, including the rich, eager to shore up his own company.

Widespread protests in his support has left the Manmohan Singh government fumbling to shore up its image.

That blocks one of the channels by which the Federal Reserve's easy monetary policy is meant to shore up consumer finances.

Investors took profits as the initial euphoria that greeted last week's efforts by the Chinese authorities to shore up the market faded.

Government interventions to shore up the housing market add an extra element of unpredictability.

But a move to shore up a domestic power base may exacerbate frictions elsewhere.

Few Japanese corporate bosses have done more in recent years to cut costs, shore up earnings, and improve cash flow.

The government had to step in and shore up the balance sheets of our major banks.

The new financing is the latest effort to diversify its sources of funding and shore up liquidity, people close to the process said.

"The US needs the investment in treasury bonds to shore up its economy to continue to buy Chinese products, " she said.

Confronted with a question on stability, Mr Putin said much more needed to be done to shore up security.

The scramble to shore up investor confidence in Italy led to simmering arguments over how to pay for a financial safety net.

They signalled that China's government will act, if necessary, to shore up the economy and the banks if a sharp slowdown takes hold.

But Washington's primary concern was to shore up Citi, a global institution that defines the term "too big to fail" .

"They haven't slowed down and there will be increased pressure from shareholders now to shore up their product line. "

The US Congress passed legislation to shore up the system.

Investors were hoping the report would prompt Washington to take broader steps to shore up the economy.

"We brought the saw in the event that we would have to cut support timbers to shore up a collapse, " says deAlteriis.

This will address criticisms and allow the physicists to shore up their analysis as much as possible before submitting it for publication.

Any liquidity facility may be too small to shore up the entire industry in a 2008-like storm.

Mr Chang and other villagers used sand and rocks the quake had dumped into a river to shore up slopes.

The takeover was intended to shore up the nation's housing sector and reassure financial markets.

Other countries including Australia, New Zealand and the United Arab Emirates have acted in recent days to shore up their financial markets.

Many countries' fiscal positions are deteriorating fast after costly interventions to shore up financial systems and restore growth.

The Obama administration has repeatedly prodded Europeans to shore up the euro.

Solid, conservative Germany has been among the European nations forced to shore up its banks.

He (Reagan) sent Secretary of State Shultz to Capitol Hill in an effort to shore up wavering Republicans.

Though far inferior to a breakthrough in the Doha talks, the South Korea deal could shore up Mr Bush's free-trade record.

While seeking to shore up domestic support, he is also defining the limits of his ambitions in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

Here, it would shore up confidence and would signal to voters that ministers were protecting their interests.

But they worry that banks are also denying loans to worthy customers, choosing instead to use public funds to shore up their balance sheets.

Its partisans, however, have begun using these incidents to shore up support for the agenda of social democracy and higher taxes.

Europe's Central Bank has already issued guarantees designed to shore up confidence in troubled economies like Italy, Portugal and Greece.

As for Britain, some accuse Tony Blair of following George Bush into Iraq to shore up Britain's "special relationship" with the superpower.

When we fix symptoms, we usually do things like throw more resources into the team at the late stages to shore up the release.

It must shore up the Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, with financial and other support.

U. S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to visit Asia next week to shore up alliances and discuss the North Korean crisis.

China has, along with postponing the implementation of the Basel rules, taken other steps to shore up its banks over the past few months.

These made it easier for economies to rebound and helped shore up governments' electoral support.

The danger is that policymakers have done more to revive the financial markets than they have to shore up the real economy.

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This urge to shore up wealth is self-defeating in aggregate, as it curbs spending and incomes.

Such restrictions will help shore up a firm's capital base before it reaches a point of no return.

Hybrid securities count toward capital reserves, helping banks shore up their finances after writedowns.

The government would provide this capital in the form of securities that converted into shares as needed to shore up common equity.

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Senior bankers said Vodafone was not under pressure to sell assets to shore up its balance sheet or improve cashflow.

He believes in urgent tax reform if fading Japan is to shore up pensions, health-care and child-support systems.

And many see the current UN conference as the last chance to shore up an increasingly threadbare nuclear non- proliferation treaty .

That is one reason the move to shore up growth in the world's fourth-largest economy is likely to be as welcome abroad as at home.

Initially the euro rallied, but haphazard efforts to shore up banks, and later the economy, undid that early vote of confidence.

Labour didn't use the fat years to shore up the public finances as much as other governments did.

Governments may have to change their domestic policies to shore up support for an open global economy, the report adds.

However, the leadership apparently could not find the funds to shore up reservoirs and build irrigation systems for its rural poor.

In part to shore up its position there, the Pentagon has launched a new Africa Command, its first unit designed to focus on the continent.

These twin factors have given OPEC members, anxious to shore up their economies, substantially more revenue.

Mr Casini refused, leaving Mr Berlusconi to acknowledge that he would need to attract individual MPs to shore up his majority.

She has had to shore up her core vote by embracing Socialist orthodoxy and surrounding herself with the old party elephants.

A $6. 4-billion U. S. arms package for Taiwan announced in January would shore up the island's self-defense, but has enraged China.

Analysts agree the visit is an effort to shore up consumer confidence in the Toyota brand.

Mr. Kim is also seeking to shore up Beijing's support for his heir apparent, Kim Jong-un, his third and youngest son.

And by bringing down the foreclosure rate, it will help to shore up housing prices for everyone.

Policymakers hope the move will shore up confidence and help shock the credit markets back to life.

Efforts by governments to shore up their economies were "failing to arrest corrosive feedback" , it said.

Gangsters, drug dealers and money launderers appear to be playing their part in helping shore up the financial stability of the euro zone.

Optimism about Asia's fast growing economies helped shore up business confidence elsewhere in Asia.

The latest estimates are that it will need some $70bn to shore up its balance sheet, up from the $40bn that was discussed over the weekend.

The Russians have also intervened to shore up the rouble.

It will keep people employed or create new jobs when the economy needs the help. But it will also shore up households' finances.

The immediate aim is to shore up Fatah and avert a Gaza-style collapse in the much larger West Bank.

The trading scandal comes as European regulators are considering ways to shore up trading rules.

Both men paid lip-service to peace while deepening the political divide to shore up their internal flanks.

Now, something must be done to shore up the financial system.

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If you need money fast, there are legal, easy ways to shore up your finances. The opportunities may be right under your nose.

It may even shore up growth and lighten the public debt burden.

He flouted President Reggan in 1982 by leading the charge to shore up the recession-plagued housing industry.

From my vantage point, no bank in Asia faces having to recapitalise to shore up their balance sheet at this stage.

Only after the banks were stable did they ask private investors for more capital to shore up their balance sheets.

To shore up their finances, some firms will have to tap capital markets, while others may turn to the government for help.

Already, the agency's reserves have been heavily eroded by risky loans it tookon in 2008-09 to shore up the housing market.

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Will seeking a battle with Democrats shore up his political base or leave him further weakened?

Germany's government put together a dollar rescue plan worth more than 600 billion dollars to shore up its financial system.

But the Conservatives accused him of pandering to the left to shore up his ailing premiership.

"I only hope to shore up positive energy on the web, where people vent too much anger and frustration, " Yancan said.

True, there are no liquidity or solvency threats requiring immediate action to shore up France's banking system, as there were in 2008.

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But if there are no buyers, banks may have to sell something else to shore up their balance sheets.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said it will recruit hundreds of cyber experts to shore up UK defences.

The Brown government has moved aggressively to shore up troubled banks.

Don't get me wrong. I am not criticizing the decision to shore up the banks.

Its first priority will be to shore up its share price, which has taken a battering over the past week.

The suspicion remains that, if things get tough domestically, the Communist party may play the anti-Japan card to shore up support.

Chinese entities haven't entered the fray to shore up Wall Street firms in recent weeks.

The EBA had given those banks until April 2012 to implement plans to shore up their capital buffers.

Oregon is moving to shore up its schools, but the program is not slated for completion until 2032.

That could help to shore up bank balance sheets and remove an obstacle to lending.

At the same time the intervention aims to shore up confidence among foreign investors in US dollar assets.

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We should also ask whether taxpayers will profit, directly or indirectly, from spending money to shore up the banking system.

And will it shore up Nintendo's faltering dominance in the gaming market?

The country's three mega-banks have already raised capital to shore up those bases.

Russia is spending $220 billion to shore up its financial services industry.

Last week, banks rushed to raise Rmb76bn from public markets to shore up their balance sheets.

The Organic Trade Association, which represents 1, 700 organic companies, wants to shore up organic food's image.

Now, as of April 7, with Saturn out of Libra for the coming 14 weeks, you will have a chance to shore up your financial standing.

In effect, some bailout money to shore up Irish banks would eventually end up flowing to their British creditors.

Japan has already said it will shore up banks and offer companies aid.

Congress gave Bush a $700 billion plan to buy bad assets from banks and other institutions to shore up the financial industry.

Many observers think the Lakers need to show more toughness and shore up their defense.

Dublin has already spent about $61 billion to shore up its ailing banks.

There is a lesson in this for other Asian banks looking to shore up their balance sheets.

Last spring the government's biggest concern was overheating and inflation; this year it is fighting to shore up growth.

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3i shares hit a record low in late-January on fears it may be forced to shore up its finances through a rights issue or cheap asset sales.

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But Wenger denied he may need to buy a more robust tackler to shore up this area of the team.

The French entry was mainly the doing of Napoleon III in order to achieve a glorious victory to shore up his regime.

'Ford would want to get on quickly to shore up its stake in the JV, ' Dunne says.

The workers have to race against time and weather to shore up the cofferdams and make them secure.

The government at last recognises the need to do more to shore up its financial system.

Darling, Gieve and Sants spent the day working out how to shore up Britain's biggest mortgage lender.

Last year, China granted $10 billion in loans to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization nations "to shore up the struggling economies. "

The rest is going to shore up the finances of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which the government took over last year.

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On the other hand, the analysts said pointblank any action but revival of credit trading can shore up the market in essence.

Second, it has to shore up Europe's banks to ensure they can withstand a sovereign default.

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At that time, regulators also pressured lenders to cut dividends and shore up their finances as loan losses mounted.

The administration's strategy may have been to shore up Obama's right flank before undertaking a sweeping overhaul of immigration law.

Separately, Congress also passed a $700 billion plan last year to shore up the financial sector.

Chinese lenders been rushing to shore up their balance sheets following an unprecedented lending spree last year.

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Sweden also cut interest rates by a record 1. 75% to shore up its economy.

Mr. Lawless said Dubai Holding began efforts last year to shore up its finances, for example, reorganizing its real-estate assets.

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Experts say the options to shore up the non-bank financial sector in principle include:

Attempts to shore up the struggling economy

shore-up Arab support for the war on terrorism

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To shore up the wall

shore up a regional reserve fund

Toyota's president visited South Korea recently in order to shore up support for the brand,