Example sentences of "[adj] support for his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has my right hon. Friend seen the opinion poll in The Guardian this morning which shows very strong support for his stand on Europe , with the vast majority of people having confidence in the benefits for business purposes of a single market , but showing understandable scepticism about the implications of a single currency ? |
| 2 | During spring 1986 his government arranged for a number of ‘ spontaneous ’ demonstrations of support in the West Bank , and a series of newspaper articles appeared confirming popular support for his efforts and denouncing the PLO 's betrayal of an historic opportunity for peace . |
| 3 | And it was his skill as a communicator , mainly through television , that created the impression of towering popular support for his programme . |
| 4 | An ordinary freedom-fighter or revolutionary — and there were a great many of them operating in the Holy Land at the time — might well have won popular support for his actions , but could not have been acclaimed as the Messiah . |
| 5 | In the mid-term congressional elections ( November 1918 ) he had appealed for wide popular support for his peace policy , but the voters , mostly influenced by domestic affairs , had given his Republican opponents a majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives . |
| 6 | Exploiting Boniface 's injudicious move , Edward sought to rekindle popular support for his Scottish campaign by a debate in parliament on his and the papal claims , in the course of which he employed no little historical research to justify his own rights , to refute the pope 's , and to persuade the public of all this . |
| 7 | Again , however , he was confronted by the problem which he had failed to overcome in 1945 : how to translate popular support for his ideas into popular votes or votes in parliament ? |
| 8 | Cecil 's immediate motive in proposing the peace Ballot was to outflank Lord Rothermere 's claims of growing public support for his isolationist and anti-League position . |
| 9 | There has been no strike in agriculture since 1923 and the instinct of the farm worker is to shun rather than seek the kind of publicity which would be required to engender public support for his cause . |
| 10 | The move was seen as an attempt to bolster the falling level of public support for his administration by addressing the two crucial issues of national unity and the economy . |
| 11 | He then used his personal popularity and legitimacy to win public support for his regime . |
| 12 | Under this alliance the Black Prince agreed to give Pedro help against his enemies , and the enemy whom Pedro had chiefly in mind was his illegitimate half-brother Henry of Trastâmara , who was in exile at the French court and was seeking French support for his designs upon the Castilian crown . |
| 13 | There was widespread support for his contention that both the Congress and the judiciary were corrupt and were obstructing the government 's economic structural adjustment programme . |
| 14 | Describing the DC as " a rotten apple with a healthy core " , he proposed chiefly to build on the existing cross-party support for his proposals to reform electoral law by referendum . |
| 15 | Mr Ubial Susey , whose Department of Communication is a member of WACC and who served on WACC 's Central Committee in the 1980s , is publicising the plight of Zaire in an effort both to gain international support for his country 's struggle for democracy , and to encourage its people not to give up . |
| 16 | Kassem failed to win international support for his claim and was deterred from pursuing it militarily by the swift dispatch of British and Arab League forces to Kuwait [ see pp. 18187-90 ; 18355 ; 18934 ] ; he was toppled in a bloody Baath-Nationalist coup in 1963 , after which the new Iraqi government recognized Kuwaiti sovereignty [ see p. 19668 ] . |
| 17 | With it , Nozick can and does find independent support for his theory ; he wants to say that the theory gets things right here . |
| 18 | In return , Mr Balladur would give Mr Chirac full support for his third ( and almost certainly last ) bid for the presidency . |
| 19 | By the end of the reign it was already falling off , and while Henry VI had much noble support for his coronation expedition in 1430–1 , those who continued to serve him in the French war in the years to come constituted a relatively small group of men . |
| 20 | During the course of February Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu finally managed to achieve the necessary legislative support for his plan to provide an additional US$9,000 million towards the cost of the allied war effort against Iraq . |
| 21 | In a letter to the summit meeting President Gorbachev had asked for immediate support for his economic restructuring programme in the form of credits , technical co-operation , personnel training , joint ventures and joint projects . ) |
| 22 | The case of the seven bishops was an important turning point in the development of events leading up to the Revolution , marking the defeat of James 's attempts to win Nonconformist support for his policies of toleration . |
| 23 | In late September L. K. Advani , the president of the Hindu-revivalist Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) , had begun a Rath Yatra , or religious pilgrimage , through India to mobilize Hindu support for his efforts to build a temple at Ayodhya on the site of the disused Babri Masjid mosque . |
| 24 | He told Mr Yeltsin there was very wide support for his reforms in Britain and in Europe and added : ‘ We shall continue to make this unambiguously clear . ’ |
| 25 | An attempt to bring Eyre to justice on a trial of murder , spearheaded by John Stuart Mill , was to prove unsuccessful in spite of the Lord Chief Justice 's eloquent support for his indictment . |
| 26 | State Governor M. M. Thomas had dissolved the Nagaland assembly on March 27 [ see p. 38813 ] , and Chief Minister Vamuzo subsequently failed to maintain sufficient support for his caretaker government . |
| 27 | He corresponded with members of the Royal Society , had lodgings in Christ Church parish , Newgate Street , London , and sought support for his projects at court and in Parliament and the City . |