Example sentences of "supporting their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pat O'Brien addressed the Divorce Action Group in Galway on 27 May , supporting their campaign on the grounds of religious freedom for minorities ( Irish Times , 29 May 1986 ) . |
| 2 | Freed from restrictions about who to lend to or how much to pay to depositors , and freed from the responsibility of supporting their corporate clients through thin times , American and British commercial banks are weaker than at any time in the past 50 years . |
| 3 | In one case , for example , Reepham magistrates in Norfolk sent two brothers to prison for two months as a penalty for not supporting their mother , although both men were close on sixty and had wives and children themselves . |
| 4 | Teachers supporting their local community 's campaigns have also been subject to death threats . |
| 5 | The Russians could not forgive the Poles for supporting their internal and external enemies , nor for their independence from Moscow . |
| 6 | For them , census statistics on local circulation areas play an increasingly important role in supporting their advertisement selling . |
| 7 | As revealed in yesterday 's TODAY , the Indians , Pakistanis and Sri Lankans have made a shrewd financial offer to woo the world 's 20 non-Test playing nations into supporting their campaign to stage the tournament . |
| 8 | Students in Nanjing , further down the river , soon jammed the streets , supporting their colleagues elsewhere . |
| 9 | Death and dying Some residents are likely to die while in residential care and there is a need for staff to have some training in helping to care for dying people , in supporting their families , and in attending to the feelings of other residents . |
| 10 | By supporting their own candidates , they were challenging Baldwin 's authority and leadership even though he had been given a vote of confidence by the Party in 1931 . |
| 11 | As Spain and Portugal stopped supporting their currencies within the European exchange-rate mechanism ( ERM ) , gloom deepened in the European Community . |
| 12 | NUM members are expected to stage demonstrations and rallies in coalfields throughout the country , urging the public to keep supporting their campaign . |
| 13 | The effective working of the adjustable peg system required deficit countries to have official reserves at their disposal for supporting their currency at the par value . |
| 14 | Congressmen were persuaded to meet and write to William von Raab , then Commissioner of Customs , supporting their case . |
| 15 | Widowed mothers of young children had a poor chance of supporting their families adequately given the conventionally lower pay ( by half to two-thirds ) of women compared with men , even when a job could be found . |
| 16 | For most members , supporting their frontbench is normal and the occasions when they rebel are rare and cause them some heart-searching . |
| 17 | However , we showed that the contribution which PNP appointees were able to make was inseparable from the wider management structures within which they were located , and in particular that the head played a key role in facilitating and supporting their endeavours . |
| 18 | This can be expressed through disputes between high-bourgeois individuals , themselves acceptable to the legal system as with the Guildford Four , who , partly as a result of international pressure , had highly placed clerics and members of the judiciary supporting their release . |
| 19 | Rather they rely not only to some extent upon judgement and intuition about the future , but also upon personal negotiations and bargaining between the executives , who may be competing with each other for scarce resources and may each be supporting their case with OR and economic models . |
| 20 | Will the Foreign Secretary also help to provide a breathing space for the Russian Government , by supporting their call for a suspension of interest payments on the debt ? |
| 21 | The research will examine the feasibility for exploring the response of ‘ normal ’ people in the work force to opportunities for assisting and supporting their handicapped workmates and , perhaps , learning from them . |
| 22 | The use of airpower by both belligerents , in addition to supporting their ground forces , was largely designed , first , to damage the enemy 's morale and , second , in retaliation for acts perpetrated by the other side . |
| 23 | Several NANC neurotransmitters have been implicated here , for example adenosine triphosphate and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide , but in humans , evidence supporting their involvement has not been substantiated . |
| 24 | seventy per cent of more of fathers whose marriages broke up were not supporting their children . |
| 25 | It is essential that the director spends time educating , consulting , and supervising staff and supporting their decisions about day-to-day management issues . |
| 26 | This glut of contracts can also be partly explained by the actions of some banks supporting their national exchanges , and by some governments ' policies through their tax legislation and regulation actions which are aimed at establishing a presence in what is thought to be an essential requirement for each country 's financial centre . |
| 27 | Few authorities were felt to have a coherent policy on supporting their older children . |
| 28 | The parties will probably wish to provide the expert with documents supporting their respective cases . |
| 29 | But it 's admirable the way Morland employees are supporting their board . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Whether embodied in judges , a statutory ombudsman or a tariff of fines , the law is no more capable of compelling editors to observe a statutory code than of extracting maintenance for children from fathers not supporting their families , ’ he said . |