Sentence examples for shore him from inspiring English sources

Can he depend on Vladimir Putin in Moscow to shore him up?

I groped around him, looking for places to shore him up, but every bit of him was falling, dropping, seeking the lowest level, like a mudslide".

After a string of gaffes on Quayle's part, following questions being raised about his résumé and lack of experience, the Bush campaign sent in the heavies to shore him up: James Baker and Roger Ailes.

Having adopted a firm but measured stance against North Korea, the lack of international solidarity is a disappointment for President Lee Myung-bak, so much so that some countrymen have taken to speculating about his political future.It has fallen to America to shore him up, reassure South Koreans and send a stern warning to the North's president, Kim Jong Il.

If the West now does too little to shore him up—and the Americans show a strange reluctance to fortify their military success with aid and policing Afghanistan could well relapse into the warlordism that gave an opening to the Taliban in the first place.

Meanwhile, General Musharraf's reshuffle of the army, as well as his visit from Colin Powell, America's secretary of state (see article), have both helped to shore him up.On Monday, a general strike called by a coalition of religious parties to protest against Mr Powell's visit was spottily observed.

The letters between Perkins and Fitzgerald are very different -- permeated by Scott's unfailing sweetness and generosity and acuity and by Max's unending concern for him, shoring him up psychologically, emotionally and financially (even lending him money).

Despite ten years sober, a recent visit from an old flame on shore had him drinking again, and no A.A. meeting on earth was going to bail him out of this one.

Mr. Tolson, who has lost much of his hearing after decades around jackhammers, said that the bent pole shores troubled him so much he pointed them out to his foreman.

Legendary political satirist Mort Sahl (whom I've interviewed) used to tell this joke: "If President Nixon saw a drowning man 20-feet from shore, he would throw him a 15-foot rope.

His wife, Tiffany, who was eight months pregnant at the time, waited for him on the shore, he said.