Примери за propping

• Real order is like a symmetrical edifice - it does not require propping-up to hold it in position.

• The political rights of citizens should prohibit covert activities aimed at propping up a political orthodoxy.

• After precautionary propping had been put in, the steelwork was taken away carefully and progressively, and the cracked treads were repaired.

• In a sense, the selectivity versus universality dilemma is destined to remain secondary as long as propping up a fragmented and over-stretched social insurance edifice continues to be official policy.

• After propping them up with bamboo sticks, to prevent rot, plants from the 408- and 466-year-old fruits produced small autumn leaves, several of which were short, stout and standing.

• He referred to "lame ducks", and the need to stop propping them up.

• I am not talking about propping up an ailing industry; the film industry is not a lame duck industry, but a very successful one.

• At present, nearly all that budget goes to propping up the common agricultural policy, an out-of-date, inefficient, costly and socially divisive system.

• If we are not prepared to accept the forces of the market, we support the propping up of lame ducks.

• Have we not got enough cathedrals without propping up our old, mouldering monasteries?

• The new social fund will become a propping-up device, a new safety net and a catch-all for many people in need.

• But is he not propping up a rickety building?

• We are not propping up outdated feudalism just for the sake of it.

• I am a little worried about equating patriotism with propping up this declining capitalist system.

• It is no use propping up an industry which has no future; in the end this will help nobody.