But at some grade level the emphasis needs to shift from shoring up weaknesses to building on strengths.
Is the company shoring up intellectual property for a sale or to go public?
The Bush Administration realized that creating national standards was critical to shoring up the whole system.
They are continuing to pump out water, excavating the blockages and shoring up the tunnels.
Violating accounting conventions not really an issue if done in the pursuit of shoring up reported results.
The only variable shoring up the euro is their money market rates still stand higher than ours.
Democratic wonks, as well as Republican ones, know the alternatives for shoring up Social Security by heart.
Power companies and public works are shoring up their resources, and some states have closed public schools.
No matter which areas need shoring up, getting the most out of your training buck takes commitment.
But his first focus will be on shoring up the firm's finances, not on its pipeline of medicines.
Those interventions, by shoring up stockmarkets with cheap money, have made life even more difficult for the bears.
Short term shoring up only leads to a much bigger fall soon enough.
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To compete, they are shoring up their faithful with a similarly conservative message.
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Honest diplomacy would focus not on ratifying an ineffective new ban but on shoring up the 1925 Geneva Protocol.
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But for teams looking to add reasonable production while shoring up their bottom lines, the pickings aren't all that slim.
The western powers that are shoring up Albania's economy should use their clout to keep it out of the conflict.
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Banks are busy reducing leverage and shoring up their capital, and the effects of both are cascading through the financial markets.
The middle class seem to be overly committed to shoring up their weaknesses in order to be well-rounded in their work.
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President Obama, to his credit, is trying to convince the Chinese to do their share in shoring up the world's economy.
Stable house prices would do wonders in reducing loan delinquencies, shoring up the banks' balance-sheets and restoring the flow of credit.
If that happens the government may succeed in shoring up its books, but Indonesian capitalism will remain as ugly as ever.
But what, apart from shoring up the position of Mr Mesa, does the voters' answer to the five artful questions mean?
The young will be shoring up pensions systems which, as our special report this week explains, are riddled with problems.
Federal officials are understandably looking for easy ways to cut spending in the entitlement program in hopes of shoring up its finances.
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Tung has begun to do so by mandating more creative teaching methods, better teacher training and shoring up woefully inadequate primary education.
It says much about this debate that giving bucketloads of cheap money to banks is seen as preferable to shoring up governments.
Shoring up our economy, and putting it back on the right track.
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Part of his re-election effort must involve shoring up his environmental supporters.
It also shows that the United States needs to be much more proactive in shoring up its Central and South American allies.
It will also plow money into shoring up its retail brokerage.
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