Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] support for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although designed to counter support for the FN [ see Villeurbanne cantonal election above ] , the agreement was criticized by Léotard , who claimed that the FN would still have the upper hand since the new UPF lacked credibility . |
| 2 | Does not the hon. Gentleman recognise that opinion poll after opinion poll in Scotland has shown support for the quest of the Scottish Constitutional Convention for a Scottish Parliament ? |
| 3 | can I just just pursue that you said said so the if you embarked on another scenario , and you said that the only way in which extra over , that beyond the figure proposed by the County Council , would be by way of a new settlement , I 'm sort of transgressing my own ground rules here , I know that Ryedale has expressed support for the principle of a new settlement , are you saying that you would be looking for a new settlement , possibly in Ryedale ? |
| 4 | While environmental groups have over the years been highly critical of pollution caused by coal-fired power stations , in particular the levels of emissions of sulphur dioxide and other gases that cause acid rain , neither Friends of the Earth nor Greenpeace nor other groups has expressed support for the scaling down of the coal industry along the lines proposed by the government . |
| 5 | The National Heritage Minister , David Mellor , has expressed support for the project , along with surviving codebreakers . |
| 6 | Several of the people involved in the ZETA story , directly or as spectators , are still working or living in retirement in and around Harwell : many of them feel that the publicity and interest generated in ZETA made many politicians and administrators aware of fusion , and helped to gain support for the funding of Culham Fusion Laboratory which was built during the early 1960s . |
| 7 | A constructed exchange control index is used to provide support for the hypothesis that financial deregulation has provided a boost to foreign portfolio investment . |
| 8 | As such , he had shown unflagging support for the Axis cause . |
| 9 | Sequent , for instance , has had to develop support for the VMEbus and streamline its memory functions , as well as modifying device drivers , to get NT running . |
| 10 | Protesters on April 5 disrupted a march organized to show support for the President , and on the following day police broke up a protest in Adzope , 100 km north of Abidjan , shooting dead a student . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Potential Tory rebels are threatening to withhold support for the Government in a future vote on the white paper if it does not give a firm long-term guarantee for the reprieved pits . |
| 13 | The gathering force of worrying rumour about the killing in asylums of mentally sick and incurably ill patients was one factor which , especially but not solely among practising Christians , was giving rise to grave concern and threatening to alienate support for the regime In August 1941 , news of the courageous open denunciation of the ‘ euthanasia action ’ by Bishop Galen of Münster spread rapidly and seems to have persuaded Hitler to halt the killing , at least inside the Reich itself . |
| 14 | Although the six cased their announcement as marking the end of the Unix GUI wars — and Sun chief Scott McNealy was finally heard uttering support for the dreaded ‘ M ’ word — reaction to the news was mixed . |
| 15 | Meanwhile Chancellor Norman Lamont managed to win support for the pound from the EC yesterday . |
| 16 | Although in 1927 Barbusse had attended the First Congress of Proletarian Writers held in Moscow , and although he had appeared to voice support for the new policy of subordinating the literary process to the construction of socialism , his actual writing practice was completely out of step with the doctrinaire ideas of RAPP . |
| 17 | Above all , Westminster enjoys a very high degree of support and interest among British voters , and it thus preserves the authority of the political system as a whole : ‘ The extent to which Parliament has served to maintain support for the political system constitutes one of the most fascinating aspects of the institution in the British political system , . |
| 18 | The Left had fought against fascism since 1933 and had organized support for the Spanish Republican armies since I 936 . |
| 19 | Matthei had welcomed the Rettig human rights report in March and had offered support for the government 's policy of national reconciliation [ see p. 38095 ] . |
| 20 | Some 40 other computer and telecommunications companies were poised to announce support for the new standard , including Lotus Development Corp , Compaq Computer Corp , Digital Equipment Corp , Northern Telecom Ltd and Siemens AG , the last two in their telephone systems . |
| 21 | Liberian accusations to the effect that the Côte d'Ivoire government had provided support for the rebels put a strain on relations between the two countries , the Liberian ambassador in Abidjan being withdrawn " for consultations " in early January . |
| 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 | Christon Tembo and three other officers accused of high treason [ for start of trial in November 1989 see p. 37142 ] , an Army officer giving evidence as a state witness claimed that President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe had pledged support for the plotters before their planned coup attempt in October 1988 [ see p. 36264 ] . |
| 24 | That 's why the name has been changed , and it does mean support for the miners . |
| 25 | The Belorussian president , Nikolai Dementei , who had expressed support for the coup , resigned on 25 August , and the republican parliament voted shortly afterwards in favour of the ‘ political and economic independence of Belorussia ’ . |
| 26 | The viability of the buy-back option was thought to be dependent on the availability of new loans especially from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , both of which had expressed support for the agreement , and also from the Japanese Export-Import Bank and the Spanish government . |
| 27 | Byelorussia 's President , Nikolai Dementei , who had expressed support for the coup , resigned on Aug. 25 , and the Supreme Soviet voted to declare " the political and economic independence of Byelorussia " . |
| 28 | ( The Iraqi News Agency was quoted as reporting on Aug. 3 that Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Esmat Abdel Meguid , at a meeting with the Iraqi and Yemeni delegations in Istanbul on Aug. 3 , had expressed support for the ending of the blockade . ) |
| 29 | In August the KKE had expressed support for the attempted coup against Soviet President Gorbachev , and Papariga now declared that the process of perestroika " which has been presented as the political restructuring of socialism , is in fact a most savage … restoration of capitalism " . |
| 30 | The Ballot itself was carefully constructed to maximize support for the League , and minimize areas of disagreement . |