Hoffman and attorney Jacob Meister each bolstered their coffers with significant personal loans of $500,000 and $1 million, respectively.
When the local sheriff told Kennedy that his deputies arrested strikers who looked "ready to violate the law," Kennedy shot back, "May I suggest that during the luncheon, the sheriff and the district attorney read the Constitution of the United States?" Kennedy made several other pilgrimages to visit Chavez -- each time bolstering the union's image.
I hardly ever saw them have big arguments, and they were always bolstering each other and telling each other how good they looked.
In what would be the final deal of his private equity career, he negotiated a retirement agreement with his former partners that has paid him a share of Bain's profits ever since, bringing the Romney family millions of dollars in income each year and bolstering the fortune that has helped finance Mr. Romney's political aspirations.
For every maternal health program the U.S. funds around the world, we should dedicate a portion of that funding to bolstering each country's health system.
In this regard, if students are thought of in similarly generalized manners within schools, schools will fail in bolstering each student's ability to achieve.
Each trip bolstered my confidence, convincing me that even while strife and terror hogged the international headlines, there was always something more hopeful and humane to be found on the ground.
Not a year passed that I wasn't rumored to skim off the top, and the amounts of canned gefilte fish I stacked in my cell after each Passover bolstered these accusations.
Moreover, even the inspector cant tell how much TARP money each recipient devoted to bolstering lending as opposed to debt repayment or investments.
It's two completely different entities finding a way to co-exist--and more, to complement each other, to bolster up each other's weak spots, burnish one another's shiny areas, hold a mirror unflinchingly up to show us clearly not only our strengths but our shortcomings, so we can grow.
Mr Obama is also expected to have to balance bolstering US ties with each Asian ally with improving communication among them, particularly between South Korea and Japan.
