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1. but decided, in the end, to prop up some netting where the canal joined the pond
2. Still, those who clamor that great art and literature are nothing but weapons of the powerful imposed on the powerless to prop up a decadent culture did not vanish
3. , too, is starting to see that it is only subsidies and requirements on utilities to buy a certain amount of "green" power that prop up the wind towers and that it is a colossal waste of resources
4. float beautifully, so you only need to prop up the back of
5. I’m not going to prop up what I say by
6. of1993, when the European central banks lost unprecedented amounts of money trying to prop up their
7. “So tell me, Angie, are you saying I came all the way out here with you to prop up pillows?”
8. I had it on the top to prop up some books but it was too close to the edge
9. Houston’s shoulders and prop up his head
10. Washington snuck back to the British winter positions and scored a few small victories to prop up the revolutionary spirit
11. Francis marveled at how completely comfortable his friend appeared to be without the support of anything to prop up his back
12. But unlike Muhammad, who provided for his faithful of Medina with the ‘spoils of war’, Jinnah was handicapped to prop up Pakistan for Islam has no wherewithal for nation building, intellectually speaking that is
13. Secret documents found in the rubble of the shattered buildings in Tripoli, including the abandoned British Embassy, clearly showed that the previous government and the security agencies had been for years helping to prop up the Gaddafi dictatorship
14. official calendar system, as well as using it to prop up Christian prophecy assertions
15. I took my socks and boots off and reclined in the dirt to prop up my swollen and battered feet on my pack, as I almost always did on my lunch break
16. But inflation should be able to prop up the price in the event the economy does slow in the coming years because inflation should be here, regardless
17. Nobody could guess that the US government would do something that no government has ever done in human history—it decided to prop up the markets by “printing” $4 trillion, while telling the world that it would continue to do so indefinitely, literally until the economy recovered!
18. ‘I will tell you this,’ he said, rising and trying with nervously twitching fingers to prop up his pipe in a corner, but finally abandoning the attempt
19. So I kindled the shavings; helped prop up the innocent little idol; offered him burnt biscuit with Queequeg; salamed before him twice or thrice; kissed his nose; and that done, we undressed and went to bed, at peace with our own consciences and all the world
20. Universal military service may be compared to the efforts of a man to prop up his falling house who so surrounds it and fills it with props and buttresses and planks and scaffolding that he manages to keep the house standing only by making it impossible to live in it
21. , that the population of Africa has been drained, to groan out a wretched existence in the West India colonies, to prop up this naval and commercial power, or that the remotest corners of every sea have been visited with the scourge of blood and desolation for the same purpose? On general principles, does not past experience afford sufficient warning to these States to avoid those shoals on which so many nations have been wrecked?