The word 'crutch' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a type of support that provides temporary relief from pain or disability. For example: "After breaking his ankle, he needed to use a crutch to help him walk."
She turned to alcohol as a crutch.
And how does it avoid becoming a crutch for markets that cannot stand up on their own?Politicians have asked the Fed to favour certain industries or keep interest rates low almost from its birth.
(EFF has a nifty interactive graphic showing what may be sniffed and by whom with HTTPS, TOR or both in use).Mr Eckersley admits that HTTPS Everywhere, like several other initiatives, is a short-term crutch.
The nuclear industry needs to persuade people that it is clean, cheap and safe enough to rely on without a government crutch.
Towards the end, however, the crutch that Mr Putin offered after Mr Kuchma was widely linked to the murder of Georgi Gongadze, a journalist, skewed Mr Kuchma's loyalty.
For an example of how a post-crash crutch becomes a permanent financial distortion, look no further.Federal support for mortgages started as part of the New Deal, in 1934.
So by cracking down on alleged bribery by the foreign drug firms, the new Chinese government of Xi Jinping is also fulfilling another promise it made on taking office last year, to stamp out corruption.A crutch for lame ducksIn many industries where local firms compete hard with foreign-backed ventures, the Chinese firms are struggling.
They say payday lenders are predatory, financially knee-capping their customers without providing a crutch.
But even this is more symptom than cause of a societal recidivism in which economic change, the enfeebling crutch of welfarism and clinging to working-class tradition all play a part.
Make no mistake, we feel shame.So if President Obama doesn't lean heavily on personal pronouns, and he doesn't use "make no mistake" as a crutch, what are the man's preferred words?I asked Mr Liberman.
Some start-ups, he wrote, had made this mental leap, but the "tech crutch", a model of focusing on technology alone and then selling to foreign multinationals, was "increasingly unsustainable" in the face of competition from China, South Korea and Taiwan.Building businesses also requires people who are willing to be, say, the 50th employee in someone else's firm.
