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Some may say that the rules should still be bent to prop up bank shares, because banks rely on confidence and their failure causes systemic damage.
一些人或许会说法令依然应该倾向支撑银行股票。因为银行依靠信心，并且它们的破产引发系统性的破坏。
The catalyst for this week’s rally was a pervasive rumour that often crops up when sentiment becomes too jaded: government intervention, either to prop up the market or the economy.
本周重振股市的催化剂不过是一个普遍性的谣传，一旦股市过于疲软就会浮出水面，即：通过政府干预来支撑股市或经济。
And for the government to survive, he must satisfy the Catalan and Basque nationalists who prop up his minority administration.
而政府要渡过难关，那他必须满足支持他的少数党政府的加泰罗尼亚和巴斯克民族主义者。

Ethiopian forces that intervened to prop up the Somali government were also accused of committing war crimes.
Some have asked why companies like AIG were not allowed to go bankrupt, rather than the government investing massive sums of taxpayer money to prop them up.

One, for incontinence, was a ball-like device used to prop up tissue around the urethra.
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How much potential is damaged will depend, in part, on how well policymakers prop up demand.
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