Example sentences of "[verb] his support for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Smith , who served in the Callaghan Cabinet in the late 1970s , reaffirmed his support for Scottish devolution and for constitutional reform , including the introduction of a Bill of Rights . |
| 2 | Subsequently , however , under pressure from more radical mujaheddin groups , Mujjaddedi withdrew his support for Soviet-mujaheddin talks , and on Oct. 28 the Bakhtar Information Agency in Kabul announced that Borhanuddin Rabani , rather than Mujadedi , was to head a delegation of Afghan opposition groups to Moscow at the end of October or beginning of November . |
| 3 | The Libyan leader , Gaddafi , expressed his support for Soviet proposals to safeguard international peace during a visit to Moscow in April 1981 . |
| 4 | In the 1976 Stevens Lecture , the Archbishop of Canterbury expressed his support for this as a moral principle . |
| 5 | The Chancellor also took the opportunity to nuance his support for German reunification in ways which will reassure those fearful that precipitate moves to unification might unsettle the Soviet Union and threaten the improvement in East-West relations . |
| 6 | Earlier , on May 28 , President Bush had announced his support for unconditional extension of MFN status . |
| 7 | He held talks with his Malaysian counterpart , Mahathir Mohamed , who announced his support for Vietnamese membership of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) . |
| 8 | We now reach the impossible position where if somebody goes to appeal against us and they win , they can claim costs against us , and we actually have that now , we 've got fairly large sums of cost hanging against the council , so if I 'd like to ask Les to erm I 'd like to have his support for stronger planning laws , then we could do the things that he says we ought to do . |
| 9 | He received lengthy obituaries in the British press , which remembered his support for English artists such as Burra , Spencer , Moore , Bacon , Pasmore , Freud and Paolozzi . |
| 10 | A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman on Oct. 10 rejected a proposal made by the Dalai Lama in a speech in the USA on Oct. 9 to return to Tibet for the first time since 1959 , and demanded that he abandon his support for Tibetan independence . |