The 2012 agreement between the Obama and Romney campaigns included rules against using props or visual aids and barred follow-up questions from the audience during the town hall.
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The propeller sits in back for the same reason—a prop in the front would be unfriendly to smooth flow.
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Since the prop tucks partway up into this cavity, the motor draws less than you’d think.
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Claiborne had provided the prop, hoping to portray Biggie as the king of New York.
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But this year, New Yorkers have a shot at making real changes through a ballot initiative sonorously known as Prop 1.
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This is good—no one needs rape on TV used as a prop, or as background noise, or for shock value.
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They see themselves being set up as a sacrifice for a U.S. policy meant to prop up Iraq.
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When the former eBay executive ran for Governor of California in 2010, Meg Whitman was explicit in her support for Prop 8.
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And the business of science, medicine, and faith itself is to restore or at least to prop up hope, that most complex vapor.
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He then fastened a prop between the closely planted posts and tried again, but he could not spring with enough force to get over.
Some Three Hundred Years Ago|Edith Gilman Brewster
Immediately on sitting down at his usual table he would open a book, prop it up against the sugar bowl, and begin to read.
A Bed of Roses|W. L. George
One Cluvius has left him a prop 183erty at Puteoli, and the house has tumbled down; but he has sent for Chrysippus, an architect.
The Life of Cicero|Anthony Trollope
Periculosum est illud per quod quis aliquando captus sit videre; prop se consequuntur proponi formam & exponi pudicitiam.
The Curtezan unmasked|Annonymous (a Spiritual Physician)
The prop'ty's all goin' to you, but I guess I shall leave five thousand apiece to the two families out the'e.
Ragged Lady, Complete|William Dean Howells
British Dictionary definitions for prop (1 of 3)
prop1
/ (prɒp) /
verbprops, proppingorpropped (when tr, often foll by up)
(tr)to support with a rigid object, such as a stick
(tr usually also foll by against) to place or lean
(tr)to sustain or support
(intr)Australian and NZto stop suddenly or unexpectedly
noun
something that gives rigid support, such as a stick
a person or thing giving support, as of a moral or spiritual nature
rugbyeither of the forwards at either end of the front row of a scrum
Word Origin for prop
C15: related to Middle Dutch proppe vine prop; compare Old High German pfropfo shoot, German Pfropfen stopper