Example sentences of "[verb] his support for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If any further evidence is needed to underline the growing possibility of a US-British rift over Northern Ireland , Clinton emphasises his support for the ‘ MacBride Principles ’ , which would require American firms based in Northern Ireland to abandon their operations there unless they complied with strict anti-discrimination criteria . |
| 2 | I understand perfectly well why that should be so , as the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) made clear in the Second Reading debate his support for the higher education reforms , which account for quite a large part of the bulk of the latter part of the Bill . |
| 3 | Even though the hon. Gentleman occasionally speaks with forked tongue — and , as we shall see later , his views are not shared by his Front-Bench colleague , the hon. Member for Fife , Central ( Mr. McLeish ) — I welcome the fact that he proclaims his support for the TECs . |
| 4 | At a meeting with Aleksandur Lilov in Sofia on Jan. 10 Annabel Markov secured his support for an official investigation . |
| 5 | He again pledged his support for a one-off meeting of MPs . |
| 6 | The Democratic Party presidential nominee , Bill Clinton , had attempted to take advantage of renewed concern over the availability of abortion by restating his support for the right to choose , and by promising that , if elected President , he would appoint to the Supreme Court only judges who supported Roe v. Wade . |
| 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 | He reaffirmed his support for a Palestinian state and called on the Israeli government to enter into direct negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) , but also denounced the Arab economic boycott of Israel and said that he would press the European Communities ( EC ) to pass measures opposing it . |
| 13 | The Prime Minister has shown his support for the Heritage Minister , David Mellor , in spite of recent reports about his private life . |
| 14 | Two centuries after Hale 's pronouncement , Pollock B. unequivocally expressed his support for the marital rape exemption in similar terms . |
| 15 | In Brazil Bush thanked President Fernando Collor de Mello for adopting sanctions against Iraq ( one of Brazil 's major export markets ) and expressed his support for the government 's efforts to protect the Amazonian rain forest . |
| 16 | Baker travelled to Egypt on July 19 for talks with Mubarak , who expressed his support for the US plan , as did the visiting Lebanese Foreign Minister Faris Buwayz . |
| 17 | Ron George , leader of the Native Council of Canada , expressed his support for the package which , he said , would allow Canada 's native inhabitants for the first time to become " contributing members instead of poor statistics " . |
| 18 | I wish to underline his support for the United Nations in the new world order that everyone talks so much about these days , and especially his comments about the British Council , the work of the council , and the BBC World Service . |
| 19 | Mr Rifkind , the Transport Secretary , retained his Edinburgh Pentlands seat — a result seen as justifying Mr Major 's decision to confront demands for devolution and separation by emphasising his support for the continued union between Scotland and the rest of the UK . |
| 20 | President George Bush had then favoured amending the Constitution in order to prohibit the practice ( and withheld his signature from the Flag Protection Act to emphasize his support for a constitutional amendment ) . |
| 21 | Mr Hawke last week repeated his support for the airlines recruiting new pilots overseas and re-hiring their former pilots on individual contracts . |
| 22 | He is said to have affirmed his support for the new fourth clause of the coronation oath at this time . |
| 23 | Earlier , a Soviet official accompanying Mr Gorbachev said the Kremlin leader would express his support for an all-European conference next year to examine the burning issue of German reunification . |
| 24 | COMEDIAN Griff Rhys-Jones has pledged his support for a £200,000 appeal to improve a new nature reserve on the banks of the Stour estuary . |
| 25 | LABOUR candidate Paddy Cosgrove has pledged his support for a fight against opencast mining at Holywell on the edge of the constituency . |
| 26 | The speech outlining government policy at the opening of the parliamentary session was delivered by King Hussein himself — a move which was interpreted as underlining his support for the new government of Ibn Shaker . |
| 27 | ( 6 ) In particular , where a shareholder of the target indicates his support for the target 's board against an offer , the Panel is likely to consider that that shareholder and the board form a concert party for the purposes of Rule 9. ( 7 ) A difficult problem is the so-called " fan club " . |
| 28 | William " Stanley " Usher , who had been elected in September 1989 as an opposition UDP representative , was expelled from the party on Dec. 13 , 1989 , and joined the ruling PUP ; he had signalled his support for the PUP immediately after the general election . |
| 29 | Nigel Short , who is taking a break in Greece , has already expressed his support for the contest 's being held in Manchester . |
| 30 | Gwiazda subsequently issued a statement , however , declaring his support for the union 's aims . |