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Even as Cameron talks of "one nation" it's painfully clear that there is barely a single Westminster plan that Scotland will be even mildly keen on, apart from beefing up the Smith Commission and getting on with the job of promoting ever more distant union.
Building up Deutsche's investment-banking arm, in particular by beefing up its fixed-income franchise, has made it especially vulnerable to growing regulation and the dampening effects of central-bank intervention on trading activity (see charts).
But other firms such as Amazon, which is rumoured to have a smartphone in the works, and Google are busy beefing up their ecosystems of software and hardware too.
THE good news, as suggested by the Pentagon's latest annual report on China's military power, is that Chinese leaders are still eager to avoid confrontation with other powers and focus on beefing up the economy.
At the present rate of asset growth, it would take Poland 141 years to reach a level appropriate for a market economy, according to the EBRD.The study suggests that foreign-owned banks are no better at beefing up their loan books than state-owned banks or locally owned private banks, but their cost-effectiveness and productivity are higher.
The government has responded by beefing up the inspectorate at the Ministry of Labour and by penalising companies that are found to be mistreating their workers.
And for those who lose their jobs from whatever cause it means beefing up assistance: generous training and active policies to help them find work.None of that comes cheap and much of it takes years to work.
By elaborating the Net (beefing it up with encryption technology, for example, and using more reliable telephone links), firms have built "extranets" to do many of the things that they used to do through expensive proprietary systems.
That is tough work; after a string of policy U-turns, Downing Street is currently beefing up its policy, strategy and press teams.
Indeed IAG, in which Qatar owns a 10% stake, recently pulled out of a European trade association saying the group's opposition to the super-connectors, led by AF-KLM and Lufthansa, was no longer consistent with its own position.AF-KLM and Lufthansa themselves have tried to make up for years of bad management by beefing up their budget subsidiaries, Transavia and Germanwings.
The danger that cheap Chinese capital might undermine rivals can be better dealt with by beefing up competition law than by keeping investment out.Not all Chinese companies are state-directed.
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The primary grammatical function of "beefing" is that of a verb in its present participle form , often used in continuous tenses or as a gerund. Ludwig AI confirms its use in various contexts, primarily to denote the act of strengthening or augmenting something. For example, "beefing up security".
Expression frequency: Very common
