Tom tried to prop Mary up with pillows.

China s national interest does not require it to prop up the Burmese junta forever.

For those who benefit from the politics of ambiguity, international law is an indispensable prop.

Above all, the G 20 s decision to prop up systemically relevant banks must be revisited.

In the meantime, no one can predict the ends to which Putin will go to prop up his presidency.

Europe, too, will get a bloody nose if it keeps trying to artificially prop up asset prices in the periphery.

In Asia, as in the Middle East, US strategy was to prop up dictators against Communism until their own people toppled them.

To the extent that it is used to prop up declining industries, the stimulus could even prove harmful by delaying necessary adjustments.

Initially, the term was used to express the opinion that the Working Group was being used to prop up the markets during downturns.

President Barack Obama, acting as if the latter scenario remains likely, is betting on large scale government spending to prop up the real economy.

One reason why Flemish Belgians resent having to prop up the Walloons with their tax money is that they regard them almost as foreigners.

In addition, it takes the heat off an undervalued currency as a prop to export growth, giving China considerable leeway to step up the pace of currency reforms.

Although this plan would prop up the value of the financial system as a whole, it would still allow market forces to determine relative share prices of individual banks.

Do people think it is easy for a 12 trillion dollar economy to spend beyond its means year after year just to prop up other countries reputations for stability?

One example of this was the attempt to prop up heavy industries using an import substitution strategy based on what I call the old structuralism, or Development Thinking 1.0 .

The army was also involved in numerous wars to pacify the borders, or to prop up friendly governments, and thereby keep other, competitive, empires away from the British Empire's borders.

China is being pressured to halt its interventions to prop up the US dollar in world currency markets, with opponents emphasizing how much harm the policy is causing to other countries.

Changing the rules of the game to prop up personal rule would help perpetuate weaknesses such as a lack of accountability, and prevent important government policies from becoming entrenched as state policies.

As central bankers and finance ministers ponder how to intervene to prop up the dollar, they should also start thinking about what to do when the time comes to pull the plug.

And so your body basically has lots and lots of mechanisms for fixing cancer, and we just have to prop those up in the right way and get them to do the job.

French troops have repeatedly intervened in Chad, Gabon, Zaire, Central Africa, Togo, and Côte d Ivoire to prop up and protect complacent, corrupt, undemocratic, and incompetent leaders, remove recalcitrant ones, or curb civil unrest.

But the illiberalism inherent in Russian imperialism is not limited to recent behavior, and, more disturbingly, it extends to the question of Georgia s territorial integrity, as Russian troops continue to prop up secessionist regions.

You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from Star Wars especially parts from Star Wars I can do this stuff all day long.

The federal government under both President George W. Bush and Barack Obama allocated hundreds of billions of dollars to prop up the mega banks, while allowing hundreds of these crucially important smaller lenders to fail.

Third, China has had to rely on another round of monetary, fiscal, and credit stimulus to prop up an unbalanced and unsustainable growth model based on excessive exports and fixed investment, high saving, and low consumption.

For those who benefit from the politics of ambiguity, international law is an indispensable prop. In his recent US Senate testimony, Rumsfeld claimed that the military police at Abu Ghraib were instructed to abide by the Geneva conventions.

Callaghan was told there were three possible outcomes a disastrous free fall in sterling, an internationally unacceptable siege economy, or a deal with key allies to prop up the pound while painful economic reforms were put in place.

Domestically oriented macroeconomists look at the situation roughly like this at some point in the future, foreign central banks will become less willing to continue buying massive amounts of dollar denominated securities in order to prop up the greenback.

And then there is this fourth level, which is a whole new object in the world the prop made for the movie, the representative of the thing, becomes, in its own right, a whole other thing, a whole new object of desire.

In Syria a Sunni majority country where, incidentally, a Sunni Muslim caliphate, the Umayyads, once prospered Iran is spending billions of dollars to prop up President Bashar al Assad s regime, dominated by members of a minority Shia sect, the Alawites (historically known as Nusayris).

True, even as exports have collapsed, the government has managed to prop up growth with a huge spending and credit expansion. But, while necessary, this strategy threatens to upset the delicate balance between private and public sector expansion that has underpinned China s expansion so far.

Under the Soviets, this stage lasted about 40 years. But Putin s simulacrum of Sovietism began to collapse much faster, partly by virtue of the fact that his regime s ideology never had much substance to begin with, and so couldn t begin to be used as a prop.

Built out of words, it is the engine that drives the plot of his book and also the movie, in which another object is created a prop that has to represent the thing that Hammett created out of words, inspired by the Kniphausen Hawk, and this represents the falcon in the movie.

The decisions that Congress must make now will affect not only the US economy s short term prospects, but will shape the type of capitalism that we will have for the next 50 years. Do we want to live in a system where profits are private, but losses are socialized, where taxpayer money is used to prop up failed firms?