Example sentences of "support for mr [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there was no sign of him on the Moscow march , many of the demonstrators chanted support for Mr Boris Yeltsin , sacked as Moscow party chief but overwhelmingly elected last March as the city 's representative on the new Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 2 | The board said it regretted that Lord Hollick had informed the chairman that he could not support its statement of support for Mr Montgomery in full . |
| 3 | With just 15% of the vote Labour came a bad third at the last election , but a recent opinion poll , commissioned by the Liberal Democrats , revealed a surge in support for Mr Kent at the expense of Sir William — narrowing the gap between the two parties from 22% to 7% . |
| 4 | There was support for Mr Gould from Mr David Blunkett , local government spokesman and a member of Labour 's national executive . |
| 5 | The problems began when Mr Mason said that Jewish support for Mr Dinkins was a manifestation of Jewish guilt . |
| 6 | Alexander Rutskoi , the vice-president who has become an ineffectual standard-bearer for the opposition , claimed that there ‘ can be no talk of overall popular support for Mr Yeltsin ’ , because a majority of all voters either voted against the president or did not vote . |
| 7 | In the district that Mr Baburin represents in parliament , 68% of those who voted pledged support for Mr Yeltsin . |
| 8 | Chancellor Helmut Kohl lined up behind President Bill Clinton in declaring support for Mr Yeltsin , seen by the West as the driving force behind market reforms . |
| 9 | In parliament Mr Khasbulatov criticised the ministers of defence , security and the interior , who had signed a government statement of support for Mr Yeltsin 's declaration and appeared in the debate to declare their neutrality and respect for the constitution . |
| 10 | The secretary of state 's address was intended to send yet another signal of support for Mr Yeltsin and his reform efforts . |
| 11 | He also praised the military remaining above the political fray , and said support for Mr Yeltsin was growing . |
| 12 | The five smaller parties represented in the new ‘ coalition government ’ yesterday withdrew their support for Mr Krenz , saying they did not believe his assurances that he was unaware of the large-scale corruption among the previous communist leadership . |
| 13 | The five smaller parties represented in the new ‘ coalition government ’ yesterday withdrew their support for Mr Krenz , saying they did not believe his assurances that he was unaware of the large-scale corruption among the previous Communist leadership . |
| 14 | The five smaller parties represented in the new ‘ coalition government ’ yesterday withdrew their support for Mr Krenz , saying they did not believe his assurances that he was unaware of the large-scale corruption among the previous communist leadership of which he was a vital part . |
| 15 | Although conference representatives seemed muted in their applause for Kenneth Baker , the party chairman , when he defended water privatisation , they responded well to his support for Mr Lawson 's increase in interest rates . |
| 16 | Resolutions for the conference include specific support for Mr McNamara 's stance and condemnation of the ‘ shoddy deal ’ between Ulster Unionists and John Major 's Government . |
| 17 | More than 1,000 residents of Aldeburgh have expressed support for Mr Wilson . |
| 18 | While these constitutional niceties were being debated , a crowd of students gathered in the rain a few hundred yards away in Wenceslas Square to demonstrate support for Mr Havel . |
| 19 | But Government whips have reported a slide in backbench support for Mr Mellor . |
| 20 | Popular support for Mr Hussein grows with each bomb that falls on Iraq . |
| 21 | Thatcher loyalists in his East Hampshire constituency attempted to have him deselected as MP because of his support for Mr Heseltine in the leadership contest . |
| 22 | Dr Owen 's decision to support tactical voting for some Liberal Democrat candidates will surprise senior Conservatives , who had hoped for a simple message of support for Mr Major . |
| 23 | In London , this has been firmly put down — along with Kevin MacNamara 's musings on the same subject — and the Unionists ' support for Mr Major is expected to yield some unmentionable dividends . |
| 24 | In a boost to the government , trade unionists from the Kuzbas mining region in Western Siberia pledged support for Mr Gaidar 's radical reforms and denounced a local hardline deputy . |
| 25 | The German finance minister and governor Theo Waigel showed some limited support for Mr Attali 's plan to close 16 nuclear power stations in eastern and central Europe for safety reasons . |
| 26 | While an overwhelming number of Scottish Labour MPs contacted by The Scotsman this week underlined their support for Mr Clarke , some of his original supporters indicated they would not support him in the shadow cabinet elections later this year . |
| 27 | Out of 23 Scottish Labour MPs , 14 expressed their support for Mr Clarke , four felt he should stand down and one was undecided . |
| 28 | Polls had until recently shown support for Mr Patten but now a majority wants him to back down . |
| 29 | He repeated the Government 's support for Mr Patten , who embarked on his reforms last October , and said that publication of the plans was only a first step which should not be an obstacle to talks with Beijing . |