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Greentown said the buyback was essential to shoring up the company's finances.

Terrified by the consequences of the euro's failure, they have urged fiscal union on the eurozone as a means of shoring up the currency.

After making acquisitions, expanding the product lines and shoring up management, he took it public for a big profit.

Stable house prices would do wonders in reducing loan delinquencies, shoring up the banks' balance-sheets and restoring the flow of credit.

All this suggests that an essential part of shoring up Europe's banks is to restore faith in government bonds.

Making progress on this front is essential for shoring up financial-sector stability and for restoring the public's confidence.

As a means of slowing the growth of multi-channel television and shoring up Mediaset's broadcast business, it is a champion.

But FAO's emergency project has funds for shoring up the bridge foundations and upgrading the track that runs from the main road.

The Treasury and the Federal Reserve have spent hundreds of billions of dollars shoring up the residential-mortgage market.

Thwarting the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and Iran is critical to shoring up the nonproliferation regime.

Indeed, Chinese factories are already shoring up their defenses in anticipation of a revaluation.

She will attend the Kabul conference aimed at shoring up the Afghan government of President Hamid Karzai.

A bigger foreign presence means shoring up a Somali government widely derided for corruption and infighting.

Those interventions, by shoring up stockmarkets with cheap money, have made life even more difficult for the bears.

Those interventions, by shoring up stock markets with cheap money, have made life even more difficult for the bears.

The German chancellor's leadership in shoring up Europe's finances is commendable.

Shoring up business confidence is the cheapest form of stimulus.

Steel for shoring up the massive new stadium's seating terraces is being installed.

Europe's recent woes highlight the difficulties in shoring up the weaknesses in any state.

Mr Kingman was there at the start of the banking crisis, playing an important role in shoring up Northern Rock.

The young will be shoring up pensions systems which, as our special report this week explains, are riddled with problems.

Q: Brazilian Finance Minister said that the BRICS countries would talk about shoring up EU countries in the debt crisis.

Mr. Kudrin played a vital role in shoring up Russia's public finances, which are vulnerable to an oil shock.

That is nicely timed to coincide with the enormous cost of shoring up Medicare and Social Security, as baby boomers retire.

Mr Obama's team spent the weekend shoring up support for Mr Bernanke.

Third, politicians are spending less time on Capitol Hill and more shoring up support back home.

The leaders of the euro-area countries have thrown 750 billion euros ($1. 08 trillion) at shoring up confidence in the single currency.

It played a huge role in shoring up market prices for internationally traded products in the first half of 2009.

The government is shoring up the economy weakened by the devastaion of war.

That means shoring up euro-zone sovereign debt.

And we are doing the critical work of shoring up our financial system so that it protects investors and curbs excesses.

Start by shoring up your credit.

Like Mr. Buffett, the government needs to focus its resources on shoring up institutions that can survive the crisis.

Shoring up the private sector: New IFC facilities will

Research and design of shoring up the deep foundation pit in soft soil in TNPP project

They should learn about shoring up buildings with materials found on the spot. They should know how to handle casualties;

Great Britain and France seemed still intent on shoring up their economic presence in Hong Kong and south-east Asia;