Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] support for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It concludes that the reorientation will require strong public support for energy efficiency , appropriate action , a willingness and ability to introduce new technology on a wide scale , and a widening empathy with environmental concerns .
2 We therefore believe CCW must concentrate on building broad public support for landscape protection and enhancement .
3 For many months opinion polls had showed high popular support for Markovic and his government , overwhelmingly a reflection of their success in rescuing the economy by wiping out Yugoslavia 's hyper-inflation and bringing in a convertible dinar [ see p. 37194 ; p. 37541 ] .
4 But usually the opposite is the case and popular protestant support for integration is expressed .
5 8.12 On the subject of direct legal support for employees the Regional Solicitor will only be able to provide very general legal advice because of his prime responsibility to the Regional Council .
6 The most obvious of these is the use of connective and , which offers direct syntactic support for grouping , as in ( 1 ) :
7 ( Government plans for an electoral law which would ban foreign financial support for parties in the elections were also criticized in both East and West Germany .
8 The Education Act of 1971 improved financial support for students , the school leaving age was raised to 16 , the voting age was lowered to 18 and worker participation in businesses was strengthened under a 1971 act .
9 The right to adequate financial support for trainees .
10 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 .
11 Nakayama stressed , however , that the March 13 decision to increase Japanese financial support for US forces in his country was evidence of Japan 's commitment to bilateral relations .
12 An interesting difference between the two was that Chesterton was never able to escape the effects of this potent brew after he became a fascist , whereas Williamson managed to do so to a considerable degree , despite his continued personal support for Mosley until his death .
13 These assaults on the fundamental objective of antiracism and the attendant practice of multiculturalism in education , social work and other municipal services have passed largely unanswered and vocal political support for antiracism has been hard to find .
14 Irked by their failure to secure full English support for Habsburg policies , they may have attributed to factiousness and incompetence what was simply a sensible reluctance to tie England too closely to the Imperial coat-tails .
15 In a meeting with the Canadian ambassador , Paul Dingledine , he criticised western governments ' growing public support for Rushdie , whose death was ordered by the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini four years ago for alleged blasphemy in his book The Satanic Verses .
16 In a meeting with the Canadian ambassador , Paul Dingledine , he criticised western governments ' growing public support for Rushdie , whose death was ordered by the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini four years ago over his book The Satanic Verses .
17 Capitalizing on the Melby report they suggested that Paris should pass a large measure of responsibility for the Indo-Chinese problem to the UN : thus enlisting wider support from free Asian countries and perhaps even inhibiting Chinese communist support for Ho Chi Minh .
18 MI5 was particularly interested in the contacts made with the armed services , but the Security Service could find little sign of important influential support for Mosley in Parliament , even at the peak of the BUF growth in 1934 .
19 It seems that adults who provide optimal conversational support for language learning are those who are sensitive to the child 's conversational needs and are able constantly to adjust their own contributions to match those of the child ( Wells 1981 ; Wood 1988 ) .
20 Groups of older people have the potential to develop as the vehicle for the counselling of older people by older people , offering mutual emotional support for group members in times of stress .
21 Treason trial — Alleged foreign support for coup
22 Jimmy Cook 's Test debut started disastrously , falling to Kapil Dev on the first ball of the match , and Jonty Rhodes ( 41 ) provided the only real support for Wessels .
23 The Modern Art Fund , first founded in 1989 , provides essential financial support for museums and galleries in the purchasing of 20th century contemporary art , as well as aiming to stimulate a greater interest in modern art in Britain .
24 But does this apparent wide-scale support for examinations disguise another motive , that has little or nothing to do with either the practicality or desirability of examining children 's work in these subjects ?
25 June : June 1 : Bessmertnykh and Baker announced in Lisbon agreement in principle on the resolution of disputes about the CFE treaty ; June 5 : President Gorbachev in Oslo accepted the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize and called for active and practical Western support for perestroika and glasnost ; June 11 : it was reported that Soviet-Cuban trade , halted because of Cuba 's hard currency shortage , would be continued on a barter basis ; June 11 : it was reported that the rouble could become domestically convertible on Jan. 1 , 1992 ; June 19-20 : Jacques Delors , President of the European Commission , had two days of talks in Moscow on Soviet-EC co-operation ; June 19 : the last Soviet soldier left Hungary .
26 Passive popular support for Iraq has been expressed in Africa and throughout Latin America .
27 A more fundamental criticism of semantic data models has been that although there is increased support for data definition , there is no parallel increased support for data manipulation .
28 One senior Portuguese diplomat accused South Africa and Zaire of providing large-scale military support for Unita , despite official denials from Pretoria and Kinshasa .
29 However , the Presidents and Premiers of Armenia and Russia agreed on Aug. 21 in Moscow to Russian military support for Armenia and on the legal status of Russian forces in Armenia .
30 The crisis created a wide degree of Arab nationalist support for Iraq within the Maghreb states .
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