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Prop me up a little, will you?

Prop him up in the chair facing the wall.

This poor kid, clearly a prop don't get me wrong, a willing prop but the kiss that's being documented kind of looks like it sucks.

Except in another 24 hours, I might be flying in Chamberlin's prop wash.

Subsidies should not be used to prop up non competitive industries or sectors of the economy.

They may serve only to prop up an occupation instead of ending it, unless East Jerusalem is opened up once again for Palestinians.

Because your body will do most of the work of fixing it if we just sort of prop it up in the ways that are wrong.

It will better prop up employment, highlight maker space's role as a driver of employment and launch incentive policies for the companies providing more than designated positions.

It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.

And of course, a racing bike doesn't have a prop stand, but this one, because it's a road bike, it all goes away and it folds into this little gap.

13 See Thailand prepares drastic measures to prop up banks , Financial Times, 3 August 1998 and Thai bail out plan seeks to lure foreign investors , Financial Times, 6 August 1998.

And it turned out that one of the guys there, a friend of mine that I never actually met, but befriended through some prop deals, was the manager of a local foundry.

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.

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.

Above all, the G 20 s decision to prop up systemically relevant banks must be revisited. And governments must respond to the banks threats by declaring their willingness to let insolvent banks be judged accordingly.

Europe, too, will get a bloody nose if it keeps trying to artificially prop up asset prices in the periphery. The sums required for this could ultimately run into trillions, according to an estimate by Citibank.

One reason why Flemish Belgians resent having to prop up the Walloons with their tax money is that they regard them almost as foreigners. Most Flemish readers don t read French language newspapers or novels, and vice versa.

We didn't invent our nonexistent man and give him the name of George Kaplan and establish elaborate behavior patterns for him and move his prop belongings in and out of hotel rooms for our own private amusement.

So non Americans should be more appreciative of America s deficits. 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?

They provide imposingly tangible evidence that something is being done about migration. High tech surveillance and boots on the ground may be more effective at preventing people from crossing a border, but a wall can be used as a political prop.

But it could happen a lot faster this time. 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.

INRO may intervene in the market to prop up prices since it has the funds to buy natural rubber to protected internationally agreed floor prices, an action that may well take place during the current phase of weakness in the market.

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).

But if they buy more, in an attempt to prop up the dollar, they will only have a bigger version of the same problem. If, on the contrary, they try to diversify into other currencies, they will drive down the dollar faster and create greater losses.

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. In Rwanda, France has yet to live down its perceived role in enabling the 1994 genocide.

Russia will be required to disgorge these acquisitions as a condition of normalizing its relations with the West. But Putin will most likely try to prop up eastern Ukraine s separatists as long as he can perhaps with military assistance disguised as humanitarian aid and will absolutely refuse to give up Crimea.

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.

In the early stages of this precarious succession, China has behaved as expected, trying to prop up the regime in order to ensure stability in its nuclear armed neighbor. China s foreign ministry sent a strong message of support for Kim Jong un, and encouraged North Koreans to unite under the new leader.

For example, in 2009, Jamaica was faced with a plummeting currency, surging unemployment, and considerable banking sector risks stemming from exposure to government debt. When its traditional allies, the United States and the United Kingdom, rejected its pleas for help, it turned to China, which provided 138 million in loans to prop up the economy.

Moreover, once a market correction begins, the authorities should allow it to run its course, rather than prop up prices with additional leverage an approach that only prolongs the correction. If Chinese regulators allow the market to correct, sophisticated institutional investors with a long term value orientation will ultimately step in, enhancing the market s stability.

This is because the national security law, which completely denies all rights and freedoms including the right to chose ideology and freedom of expression and opinion, which are stipulated in international human rights instruments has been in existence as a legal apparatus to prop up such a social system for the past half century.

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?

So, too, in the US, the smaller banks that largely finance small and medium size enterprises have been all but neglected. 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.

Russia s actions are aimed at fomenting an anti government backlash in Georgia, thereby paving the way for pro Russian political forces to come to power. 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.

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. When they cease their large scale dollar purchase programs, the value of the dollar will fall and it will fall hard.

Bush is right to claim that people in the Middle East would like to be as prosperous and free as the South Koreans, but his notion that the war in Iraq is simply a continuation of US policies in Asia could not be more mistaken. In Asia, as in the Middle East, US strategy was to prop up dictators against Communism until their own people toppled them.

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. But China s authorities might respond more favorably to an argument that points out how China s own economic health might benefit from abandoning the current exchange rate policy, which pegs the yuan to the dollar.

The third thing on my checklist is relations with neighboring friendly societies that may prop up a society. And if that friendly support is pulled away, that may make a society more likely to collapse. In the case of the Greenland Norse, they had trade with the mother country Norway and that trade dwindled partly because Norway got weaker, partly because of sea ice between Greenland and Norway.

Two other destabilizing developments emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century a strong incentive to use debt to prop up demand, and a shift toward financing public debt through private institutions at market prices, under the pretext of fighting inflation. These trends boosted public debt burdens, while flooding the global financial system with liquidity generated by private banking activities that were unconnected to transactions in the real economy.

The GIPS enormous current account deficits and the massive exodus of capital from Ireland, in particular would not have been possible without ECB financing. Without the additional money that GIPS central banks created in excess of their countries requirements for internal circulation, trade deficits could not have been sustained, and the GIPS commercial banks would have been unable to prop up asset prices (which all too often were those of government bonds).