Example sentences of "[verb] support for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baker also sought support for the USA 's opposition to a Malaysian proposal for an East Asian trade grouping which excluded the USA [ see p. 38535 ] . |
| 2 | This offers support for the idea ( in those practices with at least one partner with a special interest in diabetes ) of concentrating diabetic care on that partner , thus reinforcing that general practitioner 's skills . |
| 3 | * The government is to host a further meeting in Tunis in April , when representatives of Western donors and multilateral agencies will consolidate plans to continue support for the environmental programme . |
| 4 | Today 's meeting of the TUC-unions — NUPE , Cohse , TGWU , GMB , and Nalgo — is likely to concentrate on efforts to sustain support for the action through the Christmas period . |
| 5 | In rural areas , ANDES members were established as leaders of the radical opposition to the regime and in the 1972 elections were fundamental in organizing support for the opposition coalition , the UNO . |
| 6 | ‘ We believe we have some results to show for our efforts and if anybody in South Africa , white or black , believes that opposition to sanctions represents support for the status quo , they are deluding themselves . ’ |
| 7 | Help Eastern European countries embracing democracy , and declare support for the reform policies of President Mikhail Gorbachev ; |
| 8 | In caves and hill-strongholds the legend has persisted of the Lost Prince , Igor Fedorovitch , said to have survived the assassination of his father ; and it is mainly among ‘ simple , pastoral folk ’ that the Forgers of the Sword have been slowly gathering support for the restoration of the rightful king , after his existence and identity have been discovered . |
| 9 | However , despite a varied programme there has been great difficulty in gathering support for the other functions and indeed the last one had to be cancelled . |
| 10 | Although professing support for the retention of the pay formula , senior officers hoped industrial action could be avoided . |
| 11 | Ask Computer Systems Inc has expanded its Manman/X business information system to include support for the Oracle database and says it has signed a worldwide pact with Oracle Systems Corp to become an Oracle Business Alliance Partner : the two will continue to offer their respective products directly to mutual customers , and maintain separate but co-ordinated support staffs . |
| 12 | Despite its recent upgrades to include support for the IBM AT , fast colour monitors and the ability to set the default colours of each accessory window Spotlight lags behind SideKick on friendliness and ease of use . |
| 13 | That is ironic given Labour 's supposed support for the concept of unitary authorities which the Government are pursuing . |
| 14 | To establish support for the prospective family , a system of referral from adoption agencies to child health records or community managers is needed . |
| 15 | and team should also enjoy support for the second of my points . |
| 16 | Pilot schemes suggest they can add greatly to the citizen 's sense of security and build support for the police . |
| 17 | These differences , together with the serious physical health consequences and metabolic abnormalities associated with vomiting and purging , provide support for the DSM-IV subtyping of anorexia nervosa . |
| 18 | As a site for negotiation between divided interests , the state aims to secure support for the long-term survival of Japan 's capitalist society by , among other things , absorbing the legitimacy of the elected government into the process of constructing the national interest . |
| 19 | Conversely , Trade Indemnity maintained support for the Mirror Group , whose PAS-score trajectory shows it to be financially sound . |
| 20 | To support distributed computing environments , Dun & Bradstreet says SmartStream will include support for the Open Software Foundation Distributed Computing and Management Environments . |
| 21 | Future product enhancements will include support for the Standard General Markup Language ( SGML ) , ISO 's SQL3 specifications and the Object Management Group 's Object Request Broker , the company says . |
| 22 | A number of reports claimed that the postponement resulted from pressure by Congress ( I ) leaders who feared that the budget would be sufficiently unpopular seriously to diminish support for the party . |
| 23 | Strikes by 165 pilots of Royal Nepal Airlines on April 4 , and by telecommunications workers on April 5 , demonstrated support for the democracy movement . |
| 24 | A constructed exchange control index is used to provide support for the hypothesis that financial deregulation has provided a boost to foreign portfolio investment . |
| 25 | We also have to provide support for the A N C for thirty years a banned organization having to start from scratch in a country where the majority is supported but having no party officers or structures in place because if we suspend support to them or reduce it it will be like having no support of them all this time and just when the bird is about to fly you clip its wings . |
| 26 | To do both these we have to find support for the idea . |
| 27 | The company is understood to have abandoned development of the Repository altogether , and the switch of strategy leaves the whole AD/Cycle concept in complete disarray , though the company says that it is reaffirming support for the AD/Cycle tools available : to do anything else would leave the company open to all manner of retaliation from AD/Cycle International Alliance Members . |
| 28 | On Jan. 26 a single-paragraph statement by Mandela , dated Jan. 25 and reaffirming support for the ANC 's policy of nationalizing the " mines , banks and monopoly industries " , was released to refute rumours that he now favoured a mixed economy . |
| 29 | During the afternoon meeting , several breaks were called to allow discussions between the various groupings to examine the three motions on the table : a strong attack on the MPs , calling on the executive not to endorse their actions ; a motion regretting their action , and the successful statement welcoming the concession wrung out of the Westminster system and pledging support for the parliamentary group . |
| 30 | More recently Gill , Khalaf , and Massoud ( 1979 ) provided support for the stance of Jones and Wellman , deducing that the observed increase in rank up to the medium-volatile stage could be adequately explained as the thermal result of former depth of burial ; the higher ranks , they argued , require the additional factor of above-average palaeogeothermal gradients in the area concerned . |