Example sentences of "support for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Responding to what they say are inaccurate press stories — which we have not seen — Micro Focus Plc has issued a statement with Microsoft Corp 's concurrence , saying that their current agreement between will expire on September 30 , but that both want to continue their business relationship into the future and are exploring the terms for the new agreement ; as if to emphasise the point , Microsoft yesterday announced shipment of Microsoft Cobol professional development system version 5.0 for Windows , with support for the Visual Basic programming system for Windows and embedded structure query language ; it says the new release incorporates the latest version of the Micro Focus compiler , and creates executable files faster and smaller than previous releases ; it is $900 , now . |
| 2 | I 'm going to tell you a little bit this morning about South East Arts and it 's support for the visual arts in the South East here . |
| 3 | The size and range of the relief activities undertaken shows the strength of public support for the Spanish Republican government . |
| 4 | This contrasts sharply with the limited support for the Spanish fascists . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , it was the British Labour movement which was the backbone of support for the Spanish Republican government . |
| 6 | Papal implication in subsequent plotting against Elizabeth and financial support for the Spanish Armada only served to confirm this equation , and as a consequence Elizabeth was unable to withstand the growing pressure from her Protestant subjects for the introduction of harsher recusancy laws and civil disabilities for Catholics . |
| 7 | Apart from the religious issues which sometimes confused Catholics , only one factor weakened British Left support for the Spanish government . |
| 8 | The Left had fought against fascism since 1933 and had organized support for the Spanish Republican armies since I 936 . |
| 9 | Sylvia Hayes , an artist who had spent some time painting in Orkney , came from Oxford to show her support for the four families . |
| 10 | Arens said that the US side had indicated continuing support for the joint US-Israeli development of the Arrow surface-to-air missile programme , which involved the US company Lockheed , and on which the USA was underwriting 80 per cent of the costs . |
| 11 | There is also wide support for the mixed economy — a private enterprise economy , subject to government controls — as well as for state provision of welfare services . |
| 12 | Thus if the data satisfy the restrictions implied by equations ( 3.14 ) and ( 3.16 ) it can be taken as support for the rational expectations model of consumption : the observationally equivalent non-rational expectations model is ruled out on theoretical grounds . |
| 13 | Suharto , however , opposed the formation of a new trade bloc , expressing strong reservations about the Malaysian proposal , and other ASEAN member countries also apparently preferred to focus on support for the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation Council ( APEC ) , formed in November 1989 [ see p. 37044 ] . |
| 14 | And in this case it was an overwhelming support for the blue route . |
| 15 | If the government 's support for the landowning nobility perpetuated its age-old conflict with the peasantry , the direct corollary of its close alliance with industrial employers was confrontation with labour . |
| 16 | The combination of TMOS and the other system elements is intended to provide integrated management support for the combined transport elements . |
| 17 | She had recently changed her mind and in a moving and closely argued speech declared her support for the combined system . |
| 18 | Although US unions have been associated with support for the Democratic Party , the politicians and policies they have backed have by no means been the most socialist of those on offer . |
| 19 | The traditional southern support for the Democratic Party was maintained , in spite of the doubts of some of the more conservative southern politicians . |
| 20 | This openness also showed that in relation to science the consultative process revealed massive support for the working party 's view on the time to be devoted to science and on the position of balanced science but that the Council , with some reluctance , made recommendations in accordance with the Secretary of State 's different view . |
| 21 | It would , in any case , have been difficult to obtain unanimous support for the complete closure that Don Aldo Marangoni was advocating . |
| 22 | The government was , also , committed to a private sector as , in its manifesto , it had pledged support for the small businessman , of whom there were many in Chile . |
| 23 | The ACCA is the only accountancy organisation to maintain its support for the small company audit . |
| 24 | Strong support for the Iranian position came from Algeria , Indonesia , Libya and Venezuela . |
| 25 | China declared its support for the international ban on the importation of African ivory in June last year . |
| 26 | A long-held hatred of the system of separate ethnically defined " bantustans " for blacks was finding expression in support for the African National Congress ( ANC ) demand for reintegration of the homelands into South Africa , as part of the dismantling of apartheid legislation . |
| 27 | Portugal also provided humanitarian and logistical support for the multinational force . |
| 28 | They demonstrate this partially by their support for the two nationalist parties , Sinn Fein and the Social Democratic and Labour Party , though support for the latter does not necessarily imply nationalism . |
| 29 | There was considerable support for the latter suggestion from private practitioners in all types of firm and from local law societies . |
| 30 | The Director of Highways and the Police will continue to provide the fullest support for the relevant actions of the Scottish Road Safety Campaign Committee and the Department of Transport and will integrate local activities into relevant national campaigns . |