Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] support for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Meanwhile Chancellor Norman Lamont managed to win support for the pound from the EC yesterday . |
| 4 | The Left had fought against fascism since 1933 and had organized support for the Spanish Republican armies since I 936 . |
| 5 | 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 ] . |
| 6 | 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support for the rebels put a strain on relations between the two countries , the Liberian ambassador in Abidjan being withdrawn " for consultations " in early January . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ] . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 " . |
| 12 | ( 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 . ) |
| 13 | 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 " . |