Example sentences of "to support [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The perception of social advantage in general abstention from collective bargaining is too remote from the circumstances of the individual worker for him ever to support through the ballot box a general prohibition on trade unions , let alone to abstain privately from their immediate protection in a world where there is no reason to expect other workers to confer a reciprocal advantage on him by similar abstention . |
| 2 | Their involvement , if it materialises , may be anything from straightforward advertising on the equipment , on Mir , and even on the astronaut , to support for scientific experiments . |
| 3 | He said Labour 's proposed end to support for the closed shop , rather than evidence of a changed attitude to Europe , was a piece of clever opportunism to get the party where it wanted to be . |
| 4 | But for the activists in the Party and its affiliates , the integratory and mobilizing functions of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ were not confined to support for current attainments , but rested on the incorporation in Hitler of the ‘ idea ’ of Nazism itself , determining future utopias to be won as well as past glories achieved . |
| 5 | Natural parents often had access guaranteed under a court order and foster parents had to be committed to support for ‘ parental responsibility ’ , which could cause difficulties , said Miss Marion Lowe , association director . |
| 6 | Natural parents often had access to children guaranteed under a court order and foster parents had to be committed to support for ‘ parental responsibility ’ , which could cause difficulties , said Miss Marion Lowe , the association 's director . |
| 7 | We will give priority to support for family-planning programmes , education and employment opportunities for women , and basic provision for old age . |
| 8 | Abolitionists assumed that social deference could be a valuable impulse to support for reform . |
| 9 | Williamson , through his mainly autobiographical work , was to provide a panorama of views on the impact of the war on ordinary working people and the lower middle classes , and through the hero of The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight , Phillip Maddison , was to show how the experience could lead to support for fascism ; Mosley was to appear as Sir Hereward Birkin and the BUF as the Imperial Socialist party in the later volumes of the epic . |
| 10 | Atherton argues that the mass of the American people remain committed to support for the ‘ genuinely poor , sick , disabled and disadvantaged ’ , but not to a redistributive welfare programme . |
| 11 | A source within in DEC who did n't want to be quoted said that hand in hand with the announcement of more Alpha RISC licencees — expected soon — DEC would also likely move to support for Unix System Labs Inc 's Unix SVR4 . |
| 12 | The Percy connection had taken no part in the events following Edward 's return from exile in 1471 — an inactivity which , given their Lancastrian background , was probably regarded as tantamount to support for Edward IV . |
| 13 | In 1970 , Labour identification was not necessarily tied to support for the party 's ‘ traditional ’ concerns , or at least the concerns of the left-wing : only 39 per cent of Labour identifiers were in favour of nationalising more industries ; only 40 per cent did not believe that trade unions had too much power ; and although 60 per cent were in favour of spending more on social services this represented a marked decline from the 89 per cent recorded in 1964 ( Crewe et al . , |
| 14 | That was said by the Secretary of State and by the Prime Minister , who said that the Government ’ attach particular significance to support for families through the provision of increased child benefit ’ . |
| 15 | Özal described the resolution as unacceptable and amounting to support for " terrorism " . |
| 16 | Within Whitehall , therefore , there was surprise and concern that evacuation should have revealed so many symptoms of inner-city poverty , but the reaction of officials to these revelations was to seek their cause in working-class mores rather than to swing round to support for increased State intervention to raise living standards . |
| 17 | The Percy connection had taken no part in the events following Edward 's return from exile in 1471 — an inactivity which , given their Lancastrian background , was probably regarded as tantamount to support for Edward IV . |
| 18 | Recently , we 've come to think er , even more strategically about the projects , and organisations we 've chosen to support for of course , two reasons . |
| 19 | Alternative dividing lines which have been informally mooted , such as simply restricting solicitor-advocates in Crown Court jury trials to the less serious cases , had been viewed as difficult to support as a matter of principle . |
| 20 | invites the Bar Council to support as a matter of urgency the need for the strengthening of the statutory remedies and sanctions in relation to racial discrimination and for the adoption of specific legislation to combat racial harassment ; |
| 21 | If so , it is to be hoped that their contribution to support of old people , and their need for support themselves , will be more sensitively and generously appraised than in the past . |
| 22 | A significant part of Regional Geophysics staff time was also devoted to support of geological mapping projects . |
| 23 | Jehan knew that many of the Khans had been won over to support of Artai principally by the knowledge that the probable alternative was civil war , and he shook his head angrily . |
| 24 | Playing a crucial role in achieving that goal will be the firm 's new policy of making sales to end users entirely via a network of third party distributors , which Rabbit promises to support with unfailing commitment . |
| 25 | Firstly there 's additional support which will take the form of additional members of staff to support with a range of er initiatives and developments within the department erm there 's a lot Planning Department , in terms of economic development and tourism developments , local planning work erm making applications for grants and , an and there 's a need for additional support to support that range of work there . |
| 26 | A dense darkness you could touch , the whirring din of the coal-cutting machine , throwing into the air black dust so thick that the light beams from the miners ’ lamps could only shine into it a few inches — the impression of numberless , short pit props placed only a foot or two apart , to support above them a mile 's weight of rock and earth ceiling — all this in the stifling heat . |
| 27 | As one council officer said of the firm , ‘ It was crazy to support in economic terms , but the councillors felt a political need to deliver ’ ( quoted in Duncan and Goodwin , 1988 , p. 88 ) . |
| 28 | They are now being asked to support in Ms Guinier a nominee whose writings on voting-rights are radical . |
| 29 | Six words covered that effort by engineers with skills you purport to support in the editorial ! |
| 30 | Those who saw rural values being challenged by modern urban ideas found another cause to support in 1925 . |