Sentence examples for shoring up from inspiring English sources

"It was some jerk shoring up political points," John says.

"It's been a continuous battle shoring up support," he said.

That means shoring up euro-zone sovereign debt.

He also focused on shoring up Quebec's public finances.

The city is shoring up coastal protection in the Rockaways.

Now Mr. Gioni is shoring up his team.

Mr. Messier is also busy shoring up his balance sheet.

Peshmerga forces were seen shoring up the city's defences.

Macy's has been shoring up profits with aggressive cost cutting.

-- to national savings and approaches to shoring up Social Security.

Already within months of Keynes' death, the nearly $5bn American bailout had been spent unsuccessfully shoring up the overvalued pound, or vainly shoring up the idea of Empire.