Example sentences of "declare [pron] support for [art] " in BNC.

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1 The PUSD assembly declared its support for a state-regulated market economy and democratic pluralism .
2 China declared its support for the international ban on the importation of African ivory in June last year .
3 On Aug. 23 seven of the 12 political organizations which had initially supported Pascal-Trouillot 's appointment declared their support for the Council of State and demanded the postponement of the elections until such time as the safety of voters could be guaranteed .
4 But miners in Russia 's biggest coalfield , Kuzbass in western Siberia , declared their support for the embattled president and threatened to strike .
5 Putting aside his choice of partner , the lady who publicly declared her support for the barbaric practice of ‘ necklacing ’ those who step out of line , there is his friendship with Col Gaddafi , who is said to have paid the bill for the ANC leader 's recent tour of North Africa , as well as contributing $135,000 to Mrs Mandela 's defence .
6 She had recently changed her mind and in a moving and closely argued speech declared her support for the combined system .
7 Mr Baker declared his support for the EC ‘ taking on increasingly important political roles ’ .
8 In May 1916 Woodrow Wilson , the US President , declared his support for the idea of a League of Nations .
9 Nevertheless , he regarded himself as " deaf and dumb " , declared his support for the retention of this phrase and tried to counter the arguments for its abandonment .
10 Hekmatyar , who had suspended his participation in the mujaheddin government-in-exile in August 1989 [ see also p. 37354 ] , declared his support for the coup at a press conference in Islamabad on March 6 .
11 On May 13 Don W. Wilson — who , as the head of the National Archives and Records Administration , was generally accepted as the custodian of the Constitution — declared his support for the validity of the measure and stated that he was preparing to certify its adoption as the 27th Amendment .
12 But although the Criminal Law Revision Committee has declared its support for the present age of consent , its proposals concerning the mental element in sections 5 and 6 can serve only to undermine it .
13 Men and ( especially ) women , pacifists and Communists , Liberal , Labour and ( some ) Tory activists , Co-operators and Christians trudged through the streets distributing and collecting Ballot forms and — despite the organizers ' pretentions to scientific objectivity — persuading people to declare their support for the League of Nations .
14 ‘ In the interest of reconstruction and peace and the need to minimise the potential threat to democratic advance … we declare our support for an interim government of national unity , ’ it said .
15 Representatives of Conservative Central Office helped Heseltine 's local constituency association to draft a public reply to his open letter declaring its support for the leadership .
16 Councils run by all groupings and more importantly on the whole er by none at all er through independent councillors at parish level and they have responded with that united voice , declaring their support for a separate Cornish constituency and it might er bear remarking as I think members on all sides of this house are aware , getting that kind of agreement between councils at different tiers and in different areas of the county is pretty remarkable in itself .
17 Gwiazda subsequently issued a statement , however , declaring his support for the union 's aims .
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