Because it was bankrupt, Cuba was forced to stop propping up the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua.
But to suggest it has restrained from propping up industries is a tad disingenuous.
Syrian rebels offer a different narrative, accusing Hezbollah of propping up the Assad regime.
Much of it was blown on propping up the currency, to benefit politically powerful importers.
The PBGC is effectively propping up an institution that is becoming increasingly anachronistic: defined benefit pensions.
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More important is the role that Japanese banks are playing in propping up the bond market.
Since the onset of the housing crisis, companies have been propping up earnings by slashing costs.
In fact, China has already been providing unofficial, informal support by propping up the Euro.
Some Chinese bloggers rail against the aid wasted propping up this failing family business.
In 1990 growth remained relatively brisk in emerging economies, propping up exports from the rich world.
Both leaders face the daunting task of propping up Somalia's first effective central government since 1991.
The new leaders face the daunting task of propping up Somalia's first effective central government since 1991.
And the Conservative strategy of continually propping up the SNP in Holyrood remains to me simply staggering.
"Propping up an inefficient national airline, which would have gone bankrupt long ago, is simply illegal, " he added.
Propping up growth are surging ad markets in China, India, Indonesia, South America, and even Russia.
But of course, the appearance of no alternative has too often been the excuse for propping up dictators.
Instead, it can have the effect of actually propping up unpalatable regimes, rather than increasing pressure for their reform.
Propping up the failures of the past prevents the successes of the future.
But such help, if given, bears little comparison to propping up a dictatorship by telling tales on your neighbours.
Mr. Trichet had been propping up Ireland's banks for months with emergency loans.
Growing demand and limited inventory is propping up another key aspect of the housing market as well: builder confidence.
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The government is also under pressure to stop propping up the finance sector.
Their point: whatever money we save from lower oil prices, we should probably spend propping up our Arab oil friends.
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In our increasingly globalized economy, this is a recipe for propping up old industries and discouraging and crippling new ones.
Whereas one-third of Catalans are convinced separatists, many others are simply enraged by their tax money propping up poorer regions.
For the first camp, the developing countries were vital in propping up the economy during the dark days of 2009.
When a splint is created using PCL, it becomes a sort of biological placeholder, propping up structures while the body heals around it.
By propping up AIG with tax payer funds, the U.S. government is directly and indirectly promoting Islam and, more troubling, Shariah.
By propping up AIG with taxpayer funds, AFLC argued, the U.S. government directly and indirectly promotes Islam and, more troubling, sharia.
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