Example sentences of "of support for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A loss of support for the federal government was indicated by an unexpected victory of the ruling Parti Bersatu Sabah ( PBS ) over the People 's Justice Party ( Angkatan Keadilan Rakyat — Akar ) formed in September 1989 by breakaway members of the PBS , in the Ranau by-election to the Sabah State Assembly on Dec. 9 . |
| 2 | For a time Soviet rule appeared to collapse in the face of support for the nationalist Azerbaijan Popular Front . |
| 3 | Polling Day Weather : Dry , sunny and warm THE RESULT of the general election was thrown wide open last night , with three polls suggesting a last-minute rallying of support for the embattled Conservatives . |
| 4 | There is a large amount of evidence ( summarized by Grundy , 1986 ) that it continues to be the major source of support for the elderly . |
| 5 | Two million voted in the six republics that had formally declined to participate , among whom the level of support for the continued existence of the USSR was predictably very high . |
| 6 | It is not intended as a source of support for the committed student . |
| 7 | A resolution was passed condemning direct action as a means of bringing about the Social Democratic Commonwealth , while the importance of support for the cooperative movement was recognised in spite of doubts on the advisability of its political involvement . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , it was the British Labour movement which was the backbone of support for the Spanish Republican government . |
| 9 | Yesterday 's mass picket had been fuelled by last week 's decision at the Court of Session to allow meetings at the gates , and by the wave of support for the sacked workers at a rally in Dundee on Saturday . |
| 10 | In Teheran 's poor southern suburbs , which supposedly form the bedrock of support for the Islamic revolution , many young people said they would not be voting . |
| 11 | It is pleasing that there is a large degree of support for the Southern fire station as I said it was music to my ears . |
| 12 | On Saturday 4th September 1993 we make our annual gesture of support for the Central Wales Line . |
| 13 | The talks , inevitably , were overshadowed by public demonstrations of support for the Soviet leader which in turn contributed to a wave of public resistance to the policies of the Chinese government itself . |
| 14 | Coffee makes up over half of El Salvador 's exports , and a boycott is advocated by US opponents of the Bush Administration 's policy of support for the Salvadorean government . |
| 15 | There was no Soviet declaration of support for the new government , and Soviet press articles underplayed the revolutionary potential of the Cuban situation . |
| 16 | From his investigations into the divisions that the fighting produced within the village communities of Wiltshire , Somerset , and Devon , David Underdown concluded that ‘ the distribution of support for the two sides in the western counties shows how strongly Church and King were associated with the old festive culture ’ . |
| 17 | The final section will then examine the socio-economic configuration of support for the two parties . |
| 18 | The operation of the electoral system has changed as a result of alterations in the level and distribution of support for the political parties , so that the value of a vote is far less for the supporters of some parties than others and in some constituencies than in others . |
| 19 | At a stroke , this would neutralize the long experience of rural discontent between tenants and landlords , it would remove the over-bearing power of landlords in village communities and in the process eliminate one source of support for the ultra-nationalist movement . |
| 20 | Meanwhile the degree of support for the Communist Refoundation Party ( PRC ) , which secured 5.6 per cent of the vote , suggested that in spite of events in eastern Europe loyalty to Communist theory persisted . |
| 21 | One high point was when I telephoned the historian , Roy Medvedev , to record on tape his message of support for the second European Nuclear Disarmament Convention , held in Berlin in 1983 . |
| 22 | In England , as elsewhere , ‘ even though their help could not be counted upon ’ , children and kin were providing the greatest share of support for the older generation of their families . |
| 23 | As many observed at the time , the question could have similarly been asked nearly fifty years earlier with regard to the relative lack of support for the 1926 General Strike in the same county : as Sunley ( 1990 ) describes the two geographies , they have ‘ striking parallels ’ . |
| 24 | It is also clear that there was a great deal of support for the old church throughout the country , and particularly from the gentry elites of provincial England . |
| 25 | From the point of view of prevention , this suggests that when a lack of care arises in the context of marital separation or parental death , some kind of support for the single parent may be particularly valuable . |
| 26 | The Prime Minister 's declarations of support for the United Nations are , as ever , to be commended . |
| 27 | However , combined results disguised a collapse of support for the Independent Smallholders ' Party , the other government coalition partner . |
| 28 | What we do know is that Lloyd George , despite his public stance of support for the National Government , thought , in private , that it had been a mistake for the Liberals to join it . |
| 29 | The graffiti gives an idea of the strength of support for the local football club , a guide to the local teenage love pairings , and sometimes a frank unsolicited appraisal of a member of staff . |
| 30 | MUCH TO their chagrin , the woes of Chancellor Kohl 's centre-right coalition have yet to produce a solid wave of support for the Social Democrats . |