Irish banks reportedly need an additional 24 billion to stay afloat.

At first, Turkey s central bank acted as lender of last resort, keeping bad banks afloat.

Obama will be forced to help craft a compromise to keep the state financially afloat.

Many of them have jobs that require them to dip into credit lines just to stay afloat.

The sharp depreciation of the euro after the crisis helped sustain German exports, thereby keeping the eurozone afloat.

Some retail banks went belly up, like Northern Rock, while others stayed afloat (Santander s UK subsidiary, for example).

But, having been used to keep state owned enterprises afloat for too long, the banks are essentially insolvent.

Its azure water is saline and easily keeps you afloat, even if you don't know how to swim.

The banks, having been recapitalized only to the extent necessary to keep them afloat, still have weak balance sheets.

It was reported that two artillery armoured boats of the Ukrainian navy had already been set afloat at Berdyansk.

Most of the world s largest banks are essentially insolvent, and depend on continuing government aid and loans to keep them afloat.

The Lega Nord, led by the charismatic Umberto Bossi, holds the decisive votes in Parliament to keep the Berlusconi government afloat.

However, it continued to stay afloat thanks to the proper functioning of the surrounding arable land, available labor and transportation infrastructure.

For keeping Ukraine afloat over the past 15 months, Tymoshenko deserves the West s thanks, not the cynicism that we are currently seeing.

The paradox here is that, as its hegemonic power fades, America must rely increasingly on foreign creditors, above all China, to stay afloat.

So the countries that benefit from this largesse have a responsibility to speak up for the constituents who help keep their economies afloat.

That loophole allowed his former friends and colleagues on Wall Street to pay themselves billion dollar bonuses while keeping those firms afloat with taxpayers money.

If sovereign wealth funds want to enter and keep capital starved firms afloat in hopes of a big rebound, they should be allowed to do so.

If sovereign wealth funds want to enter and keep capital starved firms afloat in hopes of a big rebound, they should be allowed to do so.

This part of Siberia provides around one half of the Russian overall oil extraction output, and oil is the principal resource that keeps the country s ruling class afloat.

As in Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Hungary, and other countries, media houses rely chiefly on advertising revenue to stay afloat, which is often connected to political parties and figures.

Russia's economic crisis and its pedantic migration bureaucracy littered with corruption opportunities have made it harsher for migrants to keep afloat and provide for children and elderly parents.

Goldman Sachs seems to not care if they are in fact giving working capital to the authoritarian drug ring that runs the country so it can stay afloat.

Unlike hunger or land mines, the cause of rectifying global trade imbalances will not touch the public enough to attract the donations that are necessary to keep NGOs afloat.

While some families are seeing value in getting their children educated and are responding to awareness campaigns, for others child labor is the way they keep their families afloat.

Both lead organizations that, despite increasingly difficult circumstances and regulatory efforts undercutting civil society activities, have managed to stay afloat and continue defending journalists and human rights activists both on and offline.

The recent collective sense across Europe of the urgency of being able to speak with one voice in external affairs may provide the next breeze, and enough glue, to keep the enterprise afloat.

This is not, needless to say, because Europeans crave the rigors of America s less cosseted social conditions, but because it s the only way that European governments will be able to stay afloat financially.

Obama will be forced to help craft a compromise to keep the state financially afloat. Yet as a condition, he may insist that Californians, who are already among the most heavily taxed Americans, pay more.

Just about everyone spent above their means in the recent bubble, but middle class women have a special relationship to debt. Many of them have jobs that require them to dip into credit lines just to stay afloat.

The world can trust Mr. Rubin's long time deputy, the economist Larry Summers, to keep the ship afloat he knows better than anyone that timely and decisive tax cuts are the way to keep the economy from tumbling.

Many local Spanish banks can thus stay afloat only because they refinance a large share of their mortgage book via the European Central Bank. But reliance on cheap central bank (re)financing does not represent a viable business model.

So the countries that benefit from this largesse have a responsibility to speak up for the constituents who help keep their economies afloat. US Congresswoman Linda Sanchez says that if foreign presidents don t speak up for their constituents in America, few others will.

For this reason, the group emphasized the importance of developing strategies to deal with the emotional burden and psychological wear caused by this long term battle. To this end, the activists recommend self care (understood as emotional and social self care) as an indispensable instrument to keep them afloat

For keeping Ukraine afloat over the past 15 months, Tymoshenko deserves the West s thanks, not the cynicism that we are currently seeing. Yanukovich s record of violence and disdain for democratic norms is too entrenched to think that, should he win, he will ever allow his position to be challenged again.

Europeans will also see the dismantling of their welfare states and social security systems the cherished European model of pensions, healthcare, and unemployment benefits risks being replaced by the despised and widely feared American model. This is not, needless to say, because Europeans crave the rigors of America s less cosseted social conditions, but because it s the only way that European governments will be able to stay afloat financially.

The world can trust Mr. Rubin's long time deputy, the economist Larry Summers, to keep the ship afloat he knows better than anyone that timely and decisive tax cuts are the way to keep the economy from tumbling. But the most important role now lies clearly with the chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Mr Alan Greenspan he is essential if and when a confidence crises hit asset markets he is essential to keeping credit lines open and markets from freaking out.