Sentence examples for was being propped from inspiring English sources

The building had buckled and was being propped up by a forklift truck.

Employing his typical bluntness, Gansler in January called Brown an "emperor with no clothes" who was being propped up by the Democratic establishment.

But there was also a view that its share price was being propped up by an implicit guarantee that the state wouldn't allow the company to fail - whatever the financial mess it got itself into.

In a criminal complaint filed on Thursdayin Federal District Court in Manhattan, Mr. Bonventre was accused of doctoring records to conceal for a decade that the firm was being propped up with money illegally siphoned from investor accounts and had borrowed money to cover withdrawals from the Ponzi scheme during a cash shortage that began in late 2005.

'I used to come here as a boy and ski,' he adds, a little misty-eyed, leading me to ponder the vibrancy of Popova back in the days when Tito's Yugoslavia was being propped up financially by the might of the Soviet Union and when the derelict timing tower we pass was still an essential part of International Ski Federation downhill races.

Until recently the luxury goods business was being propped up by the growing number of millionaire shoppers in markets such as China, India and Brazil, who picked up the slack as cowed consumers in traditional luxury markets such as western Europe, Japan and the US spent more cautiously.

It's being propped up by the taxpayer.

Some architectural features are being propped up with lumber struts.

A bailout means a company is being propped up with government money after making bad decisions.

The fraudsters are being propped up by a deep criminal network.

Some of the biggest are being propped up by money from governments in the Middle East and China.