Example sentences of "support for the [num] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adopted without a vote , Resolution 44/10 of Oct. 23 commended support for the 1987 five-country Central American Esquipulás peace accords and expressed the hope that the August 1989 agreement signed in Tela , Honduras , for the demobilization of the Nicaraguan contras , would be implemented . |
| 2 | They demonstrate this partially by their support for the two nationalist parties , Sinn Fein and the Social Democratic and Labour Party , though support for the latter does not necessarily imply nationalism . |
| 3 | The work of Butler and Stokes , and other subsequent research within the same analytical framework , has shown that ‘ middle class ’ and ‘ working class ’ identification have a considerable relevance as regards support for the two main political parties in Britain . |
| 4 | Bir Zeit was the largest university in the West Bank and the election results were regarded as a good indicator of general Palestinian support for the two main competing groups , the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) and the Islamic Resistance Movement ( Hamas ) . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |