Sentence examples for designed to prop up from inspiring English sources

"The Russian deployment in Syria is designed to prop up a client state," he said.

EACH step taken by the authorities over the past five years has been designed to prop up the economy and save the financial system.

In France, despite government incentives designed to prop up the market, sales were down by 16%; in Spain they fell by almost half; in Japan by 22.3%.

In similar fashion, modern managers are motivated by share options and buy-back programmes are designed to prop up the share price.What might be a more rational use of a company's cashflow?

They understand in their bones that those phrases were tools of a language designed to prop up nasty regimes and distract people like them from the struggle for a better life.

But much of the surrounding architecture is designed to prop up existing arrangements — and in the process, protect Obama from exactly the kind of criticisms he once leveled against McCain.

There are also cushions you can purchase specifically designed to prop a person in different positions.

Also, are we sure the opening ceremonies aren't a big boondoggle designed primarily to prop up the struggling novelty laser industry?

Two styles of stands, the 51-inch TP, left, without wheels, and Quit, with wheels, were designed specifically to prop up Sharp's 15-inch flat-screen, liquid-crystal video monitors.

Once on, however, the folding cover design works to prop up the tablet for controller-based gaming sessions.

Nearly every new program emanating these days from the Treasury Department — the Term Asset-Backed Securithes Loan Facility, the Public Private Investment Program, the "stress tests" of major banks — appears to have been designed to either paper over or to prop up a system that has clearly failed.