Example sentences of "[v-ing] support [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first-generation immigrant , however zealously he or she tried to learn the techniques of the new life , lived in a self-imposed ghetto , drawing support from the old ways , the men of his kind , the memories of the old country which he had so readily abandoned . |
| 2 | In the week before the start of the congress it emerged that party ideology secretary Vadim Medvedev was canvassing support among the party leaderships in several republics and in Moscow and Leningrad for postponing the congress until the autumn . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Although professing support for the retention of the pay formula , senior officers hoped industrial action could be avoided . |
| 7 | After the occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 , the British government finally accepted the necessity of gaining support from the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | Not only was a large proportion of Communist Party membership unemployed but it was in the shattered heavy industrial areas that there seemed some possibility of gaining support in the " revolutionary " phase through which the Party was passing . |
| 9 | Bob Elphinston , general manager of the Sydney bid , said the Manchester bid was gaining support among the 91 International Olympic Committee members . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Dyson then went about the task of enlisting support for the organisation , a process which was successful , as can be seen from the thirty-three signatories ( including Lord Attlee , the Bishops of Birmingham and Exeter , Isaiah Berlin , Julian Huxley , Bertrand Russell ) to the letter that appeared in The Times in March 1958 . |
| 14 | ON APRIL 26 , Qin Benli , the editor of the Shanghai-based Shijie Jingjie Dao Bao ( World Economic Herald ) was sacked for publishing notes of a forum calling for the rehabilitation of Hu Yaobang , the former disgraced Communist Party 's general secretary who died in April this year , and expressing support for the student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square . |
| 15 | DORJE WANGDU : a 33-year-old electrician from Lhasa , he received a three-year term of ‘ re-education through labour ’ , without charge or trial , in September 1991 , for peacefully expressing support for the Dalai Lama , Tibet 's Buddhist leader-in-exile , and for possessing ‘ reactionary ’ documents . |
| 16 | But none the less the community is expressing support for the FDR-FMLN in ways which it is really surprising to see . |
| 17 | Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez , expressing support for the Colombian government 's anti-drugs campaign , called for a " world war against drug trafficking " . |
| 18 | On May 29 tens of thousands of demonstrators in Tirana 's Skanderbeg Square , calling for the overthrow of the government and expressing support for the hunger strikers , attacked police with rocks , bottles and fire-bombs . |
| 19 | On June 19 , Foreign Ministers issued a joint statement calling on Yugoslavia 's leaders to " resolve their disputes peacefully " and expressing support for the " territorial integrity of Yugoslavia " . |
| 20 | Civic and business groups in San Salvador organized a massive pro-government rally on Dec. 7 expressing support for the role of the army and calling for the demobilization of the FMLN . |
| 21 | MPs gathered in the House of Common on Sept. 24 for an emergency debate on the government 's handling of the currency crisis , and voted by 322 to 296 in favour of a motion expressing support for the government 's economic policy . |
| 22 | The Council issued a statement on Sept. 9 expressing support for the air exclusion zone imposed over southern Iraq , for the Moslems in Bosnia , the Somali people , and the UAE in its current dispute with Iran — rejecting Iran 's " continued occupation " of the disputed islands and affirming that the GCC would support any measures that the UAE might take to " affirm its sovereignty " . |
| 23 | Kraemer and Roberts ( 1984 ) ( see also Kraemer and Ossenkopp 1986 ; Kraemer , Hoggman , and Spear 1988 ) have invoked results from a rather different experimental procedure in seeking support for the retrieval-failure account of latent inhibition . |
| 24 | Researchers do not normally look to accountants when seeking support for the imaginative leaps which have characterised the most major advances in science . |
| 25 | The exercise proved valuable not only in securing support for the projects but also in identifying issues requiring clarification or more closely reasoned argument . |
| 26 | It would seem that perhaps browsing at the shelves should not be considered as an alternative to catalogue use ; instead browsing support at the catalogue could bee seen as perhaps improving retrieval effectiveness at the shelves by providing direction or orientation through navigational aids . |
| 27 | The theology of liberation first developed in the 1960s as a Christian Socialist philosophy which holds that it is the duty of the Catholic Church to work for social and economic reforms , particularly in the Third World , and to adopt the cause of the oppressed , These positions were approved at a meeting of Latin American bishops in Medellin , Columbia , in 1968 and represented a watershed for the church in Latin America , The Medellin documents openly denounced the poverty and brutality of the relations of production in Latin America : withdrawing support from the classes in power the bishops called , most significantly , for agrarian reforms , The documents proposed programmes , based on the method of Paulo Freire 's " education for liberation " , which were designed to promote a new sense of community action for change among the poor . |
| 28 | However , we will still need to build up our level of knowledge and understanding of expert systems within the RAF and in particular amongst our computing specialists so that we can make best use of the facilities available when providing support to the user . |
| 29 | On Sept. 26 the Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz denied suggestions reportedly made by Özal that the Iraqi government was providing support to the PKK . |
| 30 | Scores from the RDLS also correlated with performance in the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children ( WISC ) and the Word Reading Test after age 3 years , thus providing support for the test 's predictive validity . |