'shoring' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It refers to the act of supporting or strengthening a structure or excavation. It can also be used as a noun to refer to the materials or structures used to support or strengthen a structure or excavation. Example: The construction workers used temporary shoring to support the walls of the building during the renovation process.
For the liberal middle classes of Budapest, the latest outrage in Orbán's Hungary is the world's first internet tax, a gigabyte levy denounced at home and abroad as an assault on free speech while shoring up the budget.
Their grandiose self-beliefs are built on foundations as solid as quicksand, hence the need for constant admiration and attention, shoring up their unstable sense of self.
In the Dáil on Wednesday, one of the parliament's most talented and eloquent deputies, former Labour leader Pat Rabbitte, tormented the Greens for shoring up Fianna Fáil even though the former party was conveniently absent from the chamber at the time.
Party strategists know it is unlikely to win new seats, so they will concentrate on shoring up support in ones they already hold.
Now that the euro is ablaze, some Tory Eurosceptics want to park in front of the fire station, blocking treaty changes aimed at shoring up the currency unless the EU returns swathes of powers to British control.
If that doesn't leave you reassured, try Michael Lind's argument from the left that shoring up Social Security and Medicare with new VAT revenue would "almost certainly doom the conservative project of replacing public social insurance programs with tax credits or private accounts subsidized through personal income tax expenditures".
All the more so because Mr Erdoğan made his comments in Germany, where he was meant to be shoring up Turkey's case.
In a country where ex-presidents' families and friends are often hounded by their enemies, Mr Lee's visit to the island can best be explained as a way of shoring up his defences before he goes.The trouble is, he is not the only diminished leader in the neighbourhood.
For the time being, this is shoring up consumer spending and hence aggregate demand.
It says much about this debate that giving bucketloads of cheap money to banks is seen as preferable to shoring up governments.Just keep talkingIn the absence of the ECB's wall of money, governments are putting up a wall of words.
Without Mr Blair's overt support, Mr Bush could easily have ended up looking like a lone cowboy or Captain Ahab in crazed pursuit of the great white whale.The irony of this is that in shoring up Mr Bush's position, Mr Blair has ended up endangering his own (see article).
