In the case of telecommuting from home, you might be half-propped up by a series of pillows lying in your bed.
Both teams have struggled so far this season and prior to kick-off propped up the Guinness Premiership table, with Gloucester just above bottom-placed Leeds.
He has enacted a huge fiscal stimulus, unveiled a hyper-Keynesian budget, propped up tottering car firms and hastily drafted new rules for how financial bail-outs will proceed.
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It exploded the moral certainties that had propped up the middle-class order.
Either its money has bad monetary properties (and is propped up artificially by legal-tender laws and such) or the government is bigger than the seigniorial privilege warrants, or both.
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In 1977-78 the Liberal Party propped up a minority Labour government which would otherwise have fallen.
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General Motors and Ford Motor have vowed not to return to the profit-sapping incentives that artificially propped up sales for years. 2008 will be a test of that commitment.
Of an evening, the young and well-heeled can be seen propped up on high stools tucking into pieces of nigiri or futomaki, accompanied by a glass of wine and even a cigar, an apparently mandatory male display of wealth.
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Up till now, a falling dollar has been given as the one constant that has propped UP stocks since coming off their late-April highs.
America's banks are propped up with public capital, but their balance-sheets are clogged with toxic assets.
But when Bonds came up to bat, Vincent kept the blindfold propped up on his forehead, proving that Barry-hating is a complicated state of mind.
Gidman fell four short of a what would have been a deserved century when he propped forward to Gough and was snapped up at silly mid-on by Gordon Muchall.
In a running skirmish with Brian Wilson, the energy minister, he has argued that renewable-energy schemes should be properly costed and subsidised rather than propped up by fudged electricity prices.
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Analysts say the recovery is being propped up by government spending and could be vulnerable if trade or state-driven investment weakens.
The Steinbrenner family naturally wants to keep selling the super priced Legends Suites at their four-year-old baseball palace, and keep the value of their YES Network propped up as much as possible.
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There are other off-putting details too: if you press the Start button on the lower bezel while the screen is propped up, the entire display moves.
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Terry Bedford, a principal with Hamilton, Canada-based technical analysis firm Bedford Associates, is of the opinion that if the small investors who have propped up Internet stocks get spooked when they see insiders bail out of these stocks, they will follow suit, leading to sharp declines.
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