propping-up

I once wrote about old enamel signs propping-up allotments sheds "... still brightly trumpeting their messages amongst the courgettes" or something like that.

Off the Wall Peter Ashley 2008

And what the administration was talking about is not nation-building in the classical sense of propping-up a strong central government.

CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2009 2009

I can't speak for the governments, but one can only assume that after generations of having fulfilled their end of the propping-up bargain, suddenly being asked to step aside for a democratic process seems, at best, rather rude.

Mirette F. Mabrouk: Obama Faces Almost Impossible Task: How to Please Everyone, All the Time 2009

Or that the watermelon industry needs serious economic propping-up, and that's why watermelons will be used in lieu of eggs, coincidentally in the very year that an African-American president first occupied the White House?

Patt Morrison: Barack Obama and Watermelons on the White House Lawn? Oh My God -- Did You Think That Up All By Yourself? 2009

Furthermore, by financing items over $1,000.00, we guarantee that banks and other lending institutions also make profits, thus propping-up our banking system the old fashioned way -- by loaning money at reasonable rates with a guarantee they will be paid.

One-Hundred Billion Dollar Bailout That Will End Mortgage Crisis And Reduce Foreign Oil Dependence 2008

Lest we forget: "The International Answer" is the group propping-up Sheehan.

Sound Politics: Seattle news round-up 2006

It's a no-brainer to stand up against pork-barrel spending on outmoded military bases or propping-up flailing industries ... unless you represent the people who stand to lose their jobs.

Tish Durkin: What I Hate About Obama 2007

Where's the U.S. interest in indefinitely propping-up Maliki's increasingly autocratic regime?

Bush's Iraq Explanations 2006

Kallie Kriel, the union's spokesman was involved in heated exchange on Thursday with African National Congress MP Pallo Jordan who accused white South Africans of being in denial on their role of propping-up the apartheid regime.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

A little more ought to be said about the propping-up of the dragon.

The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf A Contribution To The History Of Saga Development In England And The Scandinavian Countries Oscar Ludvig Olson