Example sentences of "[verb] its support [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US State Department , while reaffirming its support for Mobutu remaining in power during the period of transition to democracy , also accused him of undermining the reform process and warned against further military attacks on peaceful protesters . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , London University 's proposal that the Witt should become self-financing comes just as the Getty computer programme is ending its support of the Witt Computer Index because it has changed its policy from building up a vast database of its own to producing systems for accessing other databases . |
| 3 | The United Somali Congress ( USC ) , which drew its support from the Hawiye clan of central Somalia , launched an offensive in late December , while the largest rebel group , the northern-based Somali National Movement ( SNM ) , dismissed as " futile " a government announcement on Dec. 26 that political parties had been legalized with immediate effect . |
| 4 | The HRU drew its support from the community of some 400,000 Greek Albanians in the south of Albania . |
| 5 | Reformers who advocated social welfare regulation were motivated by ideals , but also by the desire to improve the productivity of the working class and to attract its support for particular political causes . |
| 6 | Clearly they all function with the agreement of their management committees and funders , and within NACAB membership conditions , In fact NACAB has democratically voted its support for a broadening of roles , by reiterating in the new membership regulations the responsibility of the management committee for ensuring that bureau workers are trained in social policy work , and that they see it as a natural complement to bureau work when dealing with individual clients . |
| 7 | In particular , they want the DTI to increase its support for such research by a factor of four , from £26 million ( US$ ; 38 million ) to £100 million a year . |
| 8 | The Development Office set about the business of fundraising and , in November , we were delighted to receive news that The Robertson Trust wished to increase its support for the extension , leaving the University with a fraction of the bill to pay . |
| 9 | It abrogated the treaty with Britain , affirmed its support for Arab nationalism , and turned to other Arab regimes for the subsidies necessary for the Jordanian economy . |
| 10 | The Congress , in giving a high priority to agreements with Arab countries , affirmed its support for the consolidation of the Arab Maghreb Union [ see pp. 36474 ; 37200-01 ] and for the Palestinian intifada . |
| 11 | Syria , Iraq 's most implacable rival in the Arab world , voiced its support for President Saddam . |
| 12 | The responsibility for making public policy rested with the government , a government derived from and resting its support upon a political party . |
| 13 | ICL last week announced its support for Texas Instruments Inc 's superscalar Viking Sparc — see front page — which will figure in a top-end , multi-processing DRS6000 Model 764 . |
| 14 | On Jan. 9 , 1990 , the US administration announced its support for the restoration of World Bank loans to China which met " basic human needs " ; the International Herald Tribune reported on Jan. 13 that this covered about $2,000 million of the $7,000 million sought by the World Bank . |
| 15 | The National Rifle Association , the powerful lobby which had successfully blocked most gun controls , announced its support for a national computerised system to check prospective gun-buyers for possible criminal records . |
| 16 | On April 8 the South African Communist Party ( SACP ) announced its support for the ultimatum . |
| 17 | Having unequivocally given its support to child-centred learning , the Plowden Report also emphasised the responsibility which was entrusted to teachers by society . |
| 18 | Syria , having given its support to the United States-led anti-Iraq coalition in the Gulf crisis , was currently enjoying the consequent improvement in its image in the West , and it was noticeable that there was hardly any international condemnation of its action in Lebanon . |
| 19 | It had given its support to League sanctions against Italy , putting this view forward to its international contacts in the " Left Bureau . |
| 20 | The pub trade has given its support to a campaign to stop people drinking too much . |
| 21 | A third section , Jlulat , divided its support between these two groups . |
| 22 | Charging depreciation in the accounts of businesses receives its support from the matching concept . |
| 23 | The party nearly doubled its support to 21.5 per cent in communal elections in Carinthia on March 10 , 1991 . |
| 24 | Syria will determine whether to accept any resettlement , or whether to continue its support of the refugee demand to return to Palestine , as a function of its own regional objectives . |
| 25 | Throughout the formulation of the policy , which took ten months , pressure continued for the bank to continue its support of logging projects on the grounds that managed logging was better than indiscriminate clearance . |
| 26 | Sony Corp has withdrawn its support of a joint venture desk-top publishing business company , Newscaster , which it formed with printing and publishing company Koei Group in 1988 . |
| 27 | The Comoran Union for Progress ( Udizma ) , the former presidential majority party , which had withdrawn its support from Djohar in November [ see p. 38565 ] , was not represented in the new Cabinet . |
| 28 | The directive had been unpublicized , and was only confirmed officially on Jan. 25 after the news had been leaked by the independent Interfax news agency ( which was now operating with the support of the Russian Federation government and Moscow city council after Gosteleradio had withdrawn its support in January — see p. 37972 ) . |
| 29 | The IMF was expected to signal its support for Tanzania 's economic reforms by approving an enhanced structural adjustment facility early in 1991 . |
| 30 | The fundamental issue at stake here was not the merits or otherwise of the League , but whether the peace movement should lend its support to any reconstruction of security arrangements short of the total renunciation of the use of force . |