Verb
support by placing against something solid or rigid
Source: WordNetWe'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians. Stephen Harper
Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama. Rush Limbaugh
The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could. Andrew Ross Sorkin
The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing their record collections with CDs of albums they had already purchased. John Mellencamp
I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement. Mark Cuban
Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory then you can borrow money of them. Mark Twain