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He also stopped the policy of artificially propping up the value of the local currency, the naira, and let market forces determine its value.

Foreign students, who pay nearly twice as much as Australian students on average, prop up some institutions, subsidising research, scholarships, and domestic study fees.

The true purpose of this spending had been “to prop up Bankman-Fried’s standing in the worlds of politics and traditional finance,” the receivers assert.

He added that the force was in a "precarious position" because previously used options to "prop up" its budget had run out.

While it's a tactic that the GOP has also used to prop up candidates on the opponents' left flank, Democrats have not used that as a basis to challenge an election result.