Can we stay afloat?

And that's what keeps Wikipedia afloat.

Do you think we'll stay afloat?

Can the pumps keep us afloat?

I think I can manage to stay afloat.

Like a great marble tombstone, he is, afloat.

That means working ashore. We're doing poorly enough afloat.

Keeping a weak banking system afloat has high economic costs.

You and I have to join forces to stay afloat.

You have to fight so hard just to keep afloat.

With that amount of underwater damage, she can't stay afloat.

Irish banks reportedly need an additional 24 billion to stay afloat.

Obama will be forced to help craft a compromise to keep the state financially afloat.

Measures to keep the industry afloat in one country look like unfair competition to others.

Bolstered by funds from the European Stability Mechanism, Spain remains financially afloat for several months.

Many of them have jobs that require them to dip into credit lines just to stay afloat.

The sharp depreciation of the euro after the crisis helped sustain German exports, thereby keeping the eurozone afloat.

Some retail banks went belly up, like Northern Rock, while others stayed afloat (Santander s UK subsidiary, for example).

In 1992, to keep his airline company afloat, Branson sold the Virgin label to EMI for 500 million.

That may be so, but the longer we can keep her afloat... the more lives will be saved.

The banks, having been recapitalized only to the extent necessary to keep them afloat, still have weak balance sheets.

Most of the world s largest banks are essentially insolvent, and depend on continuing government aid and loans to keep them afloat.

The Lega Nord, led by the charismatic Umberto Bossi, holds the decisive votes in Parliament to keep the Berlusconi government afloat.

And it's only a few months since governments injected enormous sums of money to try and keep the whole system afloat.

Oh, well, the seacocks are the valves to drain out the boat, and they're always kept tight closed when you're afloat.

For keeping Ukraine afloat over the past 15 months, Tymoshenko deserves the West s thanks, not the cynicism that we are currently seeing.

On such a full sea are we now afloat, and we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

So the countries that benefit from this largesse have a responsibility to speak up for the constituents who help keep their economies afloat.

After being kept afloat for a year with help from the European Central Bank, the Cypriot banks were forced to face their losses.

The paradox here is that, as its hegemonic power fades, America must rely increasingly on foreign creditors, above all China, to stay afloat.

Many local Spanish banks can thus stay afloat only because they refinance a large share of their mortgage book via the European Central Bank.

As of February 2011, the navy had approximately 5000 sailors and marines which form an Operational headquarters, 5 afloat squadrons, and two marine battalions.

After all, economic growth remains China s best hope to keep the regime afloat, and it is the main criterion for officials promotion through the ranks.

That loophole allowed his former friends and colleagues on Wall Street to pay themselves billion dollar bonuses while keeping those firms afloat with taxpayers money.

If sovereign wealth funds want to enter and keep capital starved firms afloat in hopes of a big rebound, they should be allowed to do so.

Given the complex context and the obscure rationale behind August s attack in Sinai, all sorts of conspiracy theories are afloat, argued Egyptian blogger The Arabist, continuing

In its view, rewarding them with monetary stimulus keeping the boat afloat with more spending only relieves the pressure on national officials to do what is necessary.

And it is not the opposition or a popular rebellion that are beginning to destabilize Putin s regime, but the very forces that have helped to keep it afloat.

Wave after wave thus leaps into the ship, and finding no speedy vent runs roaring fore and aft, till the mariners come nigh to drowning while yet afloat.

Unlike hunger or land mines, the cause of rectifying global trade imbalances will not touch the public enough to attract the donations that are necessary to keep NGOs afloat.

If we hadn't kept your whole country afloat by giving you billions you never even said thank you for the whole phony outfit would be sunk under the Atlantic years ago.

But, even if exchange rates work in mysterious ways, their cushioning effect is undeniable. The sharp depreciation of the euro after the crisis helped sustain German exports, thereby keeping the eurozone afloat.

Egypt s government needs to secure consistent foreign financing to keep the country afloat, providing leverage for international opposition to Morsi s efforts to impose an agenda that runs contrary to Egyptians fundamental rights.

Both lead organizations that, despite increasingly difficult circumstances and regulatory efforts undercutting civil society activities, have managed to stay afloat and continue defending journalists and human rights activists both on and offline.

Central banks have been handed the job of keeping economies afloat, but most of the money that they print remains stuck in the banking system, unable to arrest stagnating consumption and falling investment.