| Along with bolstering savings, workers are looking to microbusinesses as a hedge against the risk of layoffs or pay cuts. |
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| With Celtic bolstering their strike-force, it is the Rangers rearguard which could have the key to the title. |
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| The object is a personal digital assistant capable of supporting field commanders and bolstering their memories. |
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| Both Bachmann and Pawlenty should have to answer for bolstering that respectability. |
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| If you want to talk about bolstering science and math education in this country, I'll gladly break out my virtual pompoms and go rah. |
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| Neighbouring rights are an indispensable tool for bolstering our recording industry, whose Achilles' heel is underfunding. |
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| The next phase of site improvements will involve categorizing web services and bolstering content according to user needs. |
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| The European spaceport is thus bolstering its status among the great international space platforms, alongside Baikonour and Cape Canaveral. |
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| While these peons can be whipped into fighting shape, bolstering diminished ranks or supplementing healthy ones, the citizens of each village slowly repopulate the town. |
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| It's possible, in fact, that the crisis, instead of eroding the reputational advantages of the big banks, ended up bolstering them. |
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| We are bolstering this with a program that supplies microloans and technical assistance to help new farmers do their jobs. |
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| Quite often, I know in the UK, it is used for bolstering government coffers. |
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| In each of the three cases, the opposing side questioned the equivalences bolstering the arguments of the first camp. |
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| The Mayor, Sizwe Dikomolo has assured the port of his support in bolstering their growth. |
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| But other issues will be discussed as well, such as sustainable development and bolstering trade, among other things. |
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| This improvement has had a positive effect on economic growth by bolstering investor confidence in the country. |
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| As a further measure, it is bolstering its interconnection capacities with neighboring systems. |
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| Ward also tossed around the idea of bolstering the purses of maiden races so owners of winning horses that break their maidens see a good return on their investment. |
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| The wanderer ventured forth into the eternal pass of cragged rock, worn with lines of age, yet stalwart and strong with thick trunks of stone bolstering the walls. |
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| Corporations are bolstering profits by underpaying workers at the very bottom. |
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| The move is designed to increase the transparency of international payment transactions with the aim of additionally bolstering measures designed to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism. |
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| If some permanent members of the Security Council wish to put sanctions first before dialogue, we would respond by bolstering our nuclear deterrence first, before meeting them in a dialogue. |
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| The uneven success of privatization schemes indicates that the market cannot always manage water effectively, further bolstering the public good argument. |
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| However, not missing a trick, the champagne business then enlists these high costs in the cause of bolstering champagne's image as an artisanal, hand-crafted product that is worth paying more for. |
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| The increasing emphasis on bolstering the security of travel documentation, combined with ongoing efforts to reduce costs, has enhanced the importance of achieving our goals through partnerships. |
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| Far from bolstering stability, Saudi policy actively works against western attempts to end the standoff with non-Arab Iran – still the natural regional partner for London and Washington that it was before the 1979 revolution. |
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| Is it regime change or bolstering a political process in Geneva? |
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| Pinter himself and later critics generally credited Hobson as bolstering him and perhaps even rescuing his career. |
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| The aim of this meeting was to assess if the follow-up strategy was succeeding internationally and look into ways of bolstering its implementation. |
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| The expanding expatriate community, especially in the United Arab Emirates, is another plus, bolstering sales locally and, by increasing familiarization, helping the marketing of local tastes and food concepts abroad. |
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| These two approaches are vital for providing the directors of issuing companies with a stronger legitimacy through the improvement of corporate governance while at the same time bolstering the rights of their shareholders. |
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| Financial institutions benefited from a better than expected strengthening of global economic activity, a bolstering of the balance sheets of large firms and a continued appetite for risk on the part of investors. |
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| Indeed, as this second volume suggests, in some instances businesses may be bolstering the repressive capacity of the states in which they invest. |
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| To ensure a balance of power among the three branches of government, the legislative and judicial branches need bolstering to counterbalance the executive. |
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| Far from displaying the nation's unity in time of war, the scheme backfired, often aggravating class antagonism and bolstering prejudice about the urban poor. |
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| The organization, formed by Moses Sonko, a Gambian located in America, has been bolstering health and education in the Gambia for the last 7 years. |
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| Through these initiatives, in addition to bolstering the state economy, contractors are reusing and recycling products used for bridge construction and repair. |
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| Bolstering that view, simple models of the heliosphere require that the magnetic field intensifies in regions where the solar wind slows. |
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| Bolstering that hour was a priority for the network, and not just because it gives affiliates a stronger lead-in for local news. |
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