Shore up
shore up (verb) - make stronger, in places currently weak
shore up confidence
shore up support
shore up popularity
shore up the baht
attempt to shore up the baht
attempt to shore up the baht through market interventions
shore up foreign exchange reserves
wasted £10billion trying to shore up the pound
shore up the pound against the mark
shore up the doomed system
shore up political influence
shore up authority
shore up authority by cracking down on the press
shore up a crumbling power base
shore up political power
designed to shore up the confidence of the international community
shore up an investment fund
sold its headquarters building to shore up its capital ratios
shore up the central government
shore up solidarity
shore up your emotional fortitude
shore up a marriage
shore up a failing marriage
shore up the collective security of the alliance
shore up the company's internal controls before charging up his marketing effort
topical fluoride helps shore up tooth enamel.
initiate a series of asset sales to shore up its bruised capital base
a cosigner can shore up a questionable credit rating
acquisition to shore up its fast-growing division
hire someone to shore up the company's management and resolve the record-keeping problems
Regions are scrambling to shore up falling revenues and protect local jobs.
shore up international solidarity
shore up her dignity and self-respect
shore up brand loyalty
shore up confidence in the British insurance industry
taxpayers' money was used to shore up the refugee organisations
shore up clients
shore up customers
shore up soil erosion
trying to shore up a crumbling system
shore up the values and culture of the country
shore up defences
shore up the regime
shore up the credibility of the sport
sold both dollars and European currency units almost continuously in an effort to shore up the pound
Congress to take money earmarked for the war on drugs and instead use it to shore up the beleaguered trauma care system.
shore up support among members of the coalition if we want this bill passed
start budgeting, write wills, shore up life and disability coverage, and invest in conservative, growth-oriented mutual funds.
policy would strengthen their military establishment and shore up their weakening industrial base.
Example sentences:
* The Bank of England wasted £10billion trying to shore up the pound.
* Naturally, the advertising industry reckons the best way to shore up brand loyalty is to spend hugely on even more ads.
* In order to keep exports competitive and to shore up foreign exchange reserves, the government decided to allow the peso to float freely.?
* She needed to shore up her dignity and self-respect.
* It was like trying to shore up a wall of quicksand.
* Throughout the day the Bank sold both dollars and European currency units almost continuously in an effort to shore up the pound.?
* The government thus wants to boost GDP growth to around 6% to lay the electoral groundwork and shore up its popularity.
* The Bank's sales of Ecus for pounds were intended to shore up the pound against the mark, without resorting to outright sales of the German currency.
* Finland also attempted to shore up the markka with the appointment of a new woman central bank governor, Sirkka Haemaelaeinen, described by one banker as a market orientated tough egg.
* Meanwhile, the Government has stepped in to underwrite the cost of bomb damage to shore up confidence in the British insurance industry and the reputation of the City of London as a world financial centre although that, ironically, may encourage just as much as it may discourage the IRA.?
* Chamberlain's cabinet was obsessed by the fear that if taxpayers' money was used to shore up the refugee organisations, other countries, not least Germany, would be encouraged to hand on to Britain yet more of their unwanted citizens.
* He had to shore up support among traditional Democrats, and he did; hence the expectation that he would be the harbinger of a hundred new social policies on everything from vaccination to AIDS.?
* Commentators suggested that the shipment was designed to shore up the confidence of the international community in the face of India's precarious foreign exchange position.
* Industry watchers say IBM has waited too long to roll-out the AIX database and predict it will only shore up dedicated IBM mainframe clients, users with RS/6000s running Sybase Inc and Oracle Corp databases are unlikely candidates, the company admits.?
* In part they were motivated by concern to shore up the influence of their class over provincial affairs.
* A plea for cash to shore up sea defences.
* Economists believe a sizeable narrowing from the £2bn current account shortfall for August would shore up sterling and ensure that interest rates rise no higher.
* Bonn can plainly not afford the political price of continuing to shore up the German Democratic Republic with billions of Deutsche Marks unless in return for genuine reform.?
* Standard Chartered Bank, the group with an uncomfortable level of exposure to the troubled Australian entrepreneur, Alan Bond, has sold its prestige headquarters building for £145million as part of efforts to shore up its capital ratios.
* The British Boxing Board of Control, in a commendable exercise to shore up the credibility of the sport yesterday, questioned the plan for Benn to challenge one of boxing's legends, Roberto Duran, for his middleweight title.?
* Frightened by events in Eastern Europe, Vietnam's ageing leaders appear to be trying to shore up the authority of the party by cutting down the independence of an already tightly-regulated press.
