Then Montgomery Ward's, the long-troubled retailer, declared bankruptcy in late December, concluding that consumer spending was too soft to prop it up through the upcoming year.
Laporte went on to explain that he would have liked to see the Quebec government directly intervene in the company's business, and get the province to prop it up through its investment arm, the Caisse de depot et placement.
Why dash the calming beauty of a collection of poetry that propped you up through a rough patch by witnessing its author, when not forgetting entire stanzas, braying it out in an annoyingly aggressive "Beat" style?
They could mock us, disregard us, use us to prop themselves up.
Mr. Zhu was eager to counter the increasingly voiced worry that large-scale deficit spending, which the government has used to prop up growth through recent tough years, might endanger stability.
Such an arrangement could allow the SNP to vote down significant parts of a Labour Government's legislative agenda while keeping it propped up through confidence motions.
But this power structure is cracked, it always has been; that's why it has to be constantly propped up through force, violence and the threat of violence.
It propped the president up through the worst of the killing in Darfur because it needed Sudanese oil.
But the famous professors, the "public face of the project," are propped up through "the labor of the unseen". Students the "protected consumer"—rarely delineate between those who will still be there years after they're gone and those with short-time gigs and no job security.
A lot of the startup community and companies are propped up through taxpayer money, much of it from the EU.
It was propped up through capital.
