This allowed Conrail and other carriers the opportunity to become profitable and strengthen their finances.

There is still the problem of strengthening Social Security's finances.

The extra income has helped to strengthen the city's finances and is expected to help the city fix up schools and trim the property tax.

Earlier this year regulators forced the bank to sign agreements to improve its lending practices, change management, and strengthen its finances.

The St. Louis group, for one, is trying to strengthen its finances.

If approved, it would add to the $675 million that Travelers, which is based in Hartford, has raised this year to strengthen its finances.

It was named after a former bursar of the college, who did much to strengthen its finances.

Economists, however, said the short-term effect would be modest because banks might wait to strengthen their finances further before they lend.

These policies greatly strengthened the domain's finances and allowed the daimyo more effective control over his territory.

Otherwise they would have to admit that such accounts would weaken, not strengthen, the system's finances.