One, for incontinence, was a ball-like device used to prop up tissue around the urethra.
How much potential is damaged will depend, in part, on how well policymakers prop up demand.
Yet, ironically, Asia's massive accumulation of reserves is helping to prop up the American economy.
When evidence of its decline began pouring in, Detroit employed tricks to prop up its sales.
Weakness in the US dollar should prop up the US market quite a bit.
The government used Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to prop up the mortgage market.
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Investors in green technology are pleading for intervention to prop up the carbon price.
He thinks devaluation is usually preferable to raising interest rates to prop up a currency.
Is it a story, or simply a structure erected to prop up the score?
The central bank has been forced to drain currency reserves to prop up the Egyptian pound.
The worry is that Japanese officials will use this to prop up ailing companies.
First, the government launched a stimulus programme in 2009 to prop up the economy.
An attempt to prop up Ireland's banks last year sucked deposits out of Britain's.
Germany's schemes to prop up demand for cars and car workers have the same weakness.
Soviet non-cooperation could, after all, derail the West's campaign to prop up the Soviet leader.
To prop up its currency, a government can sell foreign-exchange reserves to buy that currency.
The Central Bank has intervened less to prop up the peso and capital flight is easing.
Investors have relied on the Fed to prop up prices when economic news is dismal.
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Some countries, such as Ireland and Spain, have needed to find money to prop up their banks.
Tempur-Pedic switched to new discounts in efforts to prop up falling sales, though that decision was criticized.
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Unlike Facebook, it can also count on the loyalty of its customers to prop up its stock.
The U.S. has intervened to prop up failing banks as well as corporations measures best described as cronyism.
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The one that proved Silicon Valley is roaring and ready to prop up the rest of America.
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Overoptimistic assumptions about future earnings on a pension fund artificially prop up earnings and thus rate a minus.
Worries were spreading that Asian buying, which has helped prop up gold prices for years, may be weakening.
The central bank was hoping to prop up the rupiah by making it more expensive to sell it.
But when the bubble burst in 2008, the Fed had to step in to prop up the banks.
Apart from low-quality industrial diamonds, the stones had no practical use that would help prop up their price.
When Austria took desperate measures to prop up its banking system, its banking crisis only shifted to Germany.
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