Synonyms for prop up
prop up

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1. prop up, prop, shore up, shoreverb

   support by placing against something solid or rigid

   "shore and buttress an old building"

   Synonyms:
   set ashore, shore, shore up, land, prop

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1. Chris Christie:

   There's now 300,000 nearly dead in Syria because of Assad and now Putin is going in and teaming with the Iranians to prop up Assad, only Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton could mess up this foreign policy that badly.

2. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie:

   That makes me absolutely certain I'm right if the secretary of state thinks that, iSIS is simply not being attacked by Russia. Russia is in Syria along with Iran to prop up (President Bashar) Assad.

3. Ian Kernohan:

   We had coordinated central bank action at the height of the crisis but I don't think we are at that stage now, is it the central banks' job to prop up markets all the time? Are we in a crisis, or are we just having a scare from weak China manufacturing data?

4. Jim Carafano:

   The problem is, when you buy oil from Venezuela, essentially what you're doing is you're putting dollars in to prop up the economy and more entrench the Maduro regime, and at the same time, the only reason why this regime is existing at all, is on life support, is because of support from the Chinese, the Russians and the Cubans. So you have really the most detestable regime in Latin America that’s basically subsisting on these external actors.

5. Steven Mnuchin:

   Venezuela's oil... should not be used as a bargaining tool to prop up dictators and prolong the usurpation of Venezuelan democracy.