It had a limp, clothlike look, as though it had been propped on many music stands.
Bicycles are propped against walls on cobbled streets as if in a Francis Bacon painting.
It only stayed in the black because tin prices were propped up by a producers' cartel.
The artery is then propped open with a metal mesh tube called a stent.
And the program in Boston, propped up by Federal dollars, has been surprisingly successful.
America's banks are propped up with public capital, but their balance-sheets are clogged with toxic assets.
For instance, they were less likely to have had their clogged arteries propped open with stents.
On the bridge Commander Kazuo Yukinaka propped a young girl on his red captain's chair.
Other say shares have been artificially propped up by the Federal Reserve's extraordinary stimulus measures.
When Miena couldn't get around right after her soccer injury, Aesha propped pillows under her foot.
In 1977-78 the Liberal Party propped up a minority Labour government which would otherwise have fallen.
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Colossal rocks were deposited here by a glacier 10, 000 years ago, propped up against each other at unlikely angles.
Petraeus settled beside the window and propped his feet on a red picnic cooler.
Her father could not see it from where he was propped before the television in the den.
To wit: The U.S. and European markets are being propped up by speculators who borrow in yen.
Federal spending has propped up the economy, but now the government has borrowed to the breaking point.
Temporary shortages had artificially propped up prices, but a host of new capacities were in the pipeline.
These have propped up demand this year, especially in Germany where they drove volumes to record levels.
If you can, see if a door will stay open or can be propped open, Solomon said.
At AboveNet, Meister propped up the stock some 41% in a very short time by orchestrating a takeover.
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They'd come to file past a picture of Chavez propped amid flowers and flanked by a military honour-guard.
More ominous, the foreign markets that have propped up GM sales for some time are now slowing dramatically.
They also propped up a notice board at the entrance of the cafeteria, pleading with the group to disband.
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But not all banks and lenders had to be propped up by taxpayers.
One in five euros that Greek banks now lend to households or companies is propped up by the ECB.
In 1999 Tardif began testing AGI-1067 on 300 patients who had had their arteries propped open with angioplasty surgery.
Well, you might recall that earlier this month when Knight Capital was near death Goldman propped it up temporarily.
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However, a source said Holmes allegedly went out a rear exit door, propped it open and gathered his weapons.
Are they stable and profitable, or are they losing money and propped up by VC funding that might go away?
More a matter of pride than sound business thinking, Ford propped up the Taurus with massive discounts to fleet buyers.
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