Example sentences of "[v-ing] support for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our representatives are now canvassing support for that . |
| 2 | In rural areas , ANDES members were established as leaders of the radical opposition to the regime and in the 1972 elections were fundamental in organizing support for the opposition coalition , the UNO . |
| 3 | In caves and hill-strongholds the legend has persisted of the Lost Prince , Igor Fedorovitch , said to have survived the assassination of his father ; and it is mainly among ‘ simple , pastoral folk ’ that the Forgers of the Sword have been slowly gathering support for the restoration of the rightful king , after his existence and identity have been discovered . |
| 4 | However , despite a varied programme there has been great difficulty in gathering support for the other functions and indeed the last one had to be cancelled . |
| 5 | If that programme has been such a failure , why do we now have 30 programmes targeting support for identifiable industrial priority areas , and why are there almost 200 collaborative research programmes ? |
| 6 | Although professing support for the retention of the pay formula , senior officers hoped industrial action could be avoided . |
| 7 | The company is understood to have abandoned development of the Repository altogether , and the switch of strategy leaves the whole AD/Cycle concept in complete disarray , though the company says that it is reaffirming support for the AD/Cycle tools available : to do anything else would leave the company open to all manner of retaliation from AD/Cycle International Alliance Members . |
| 8 | On Jan. 26 a single-paragraph statement by Mandela , dated Jan. 25 and reaffirming support for the ANC 's policy of nationalizing the " mines , banks and monopoly industries " , was released to refute rumours that he now favoured a mixed economy . |
| 9 | During the afternoon meeting , several breaks were called to allow discussions between the various groupings to examine the three motions on the table : a strong attack on the MPs , calling on the executive not to endorse their actions ; a motion regretting their action , and the successful statement welcoming the concession wrung out of the Westminster system and pledging support for the parliamentary group . |
| 10 | His objection was specifically against the idea of a married diaconate , and he accused three periti ( unnamed but thought to be Rahner , Martelet and Ratzinger ) of distributing pamphlets to the fathers soliciting support for such a project . |
| 11 | Dyson then went about the task of enlisting support for the organisation , a process which was successful , as can be seen from the thirty-three signatories ( including Lord Attlee , the Bishops of Birmingham and Exeter , Isaiah Berlin , Julian Huxley , Bertrand Russell ) to the letter that appeared in The Times in March 1958 . |
| 12 | ON APRIL 26 , Qin Benli , the editor of the Shanghai-based Shijie Jingjie Dao Bao ( World Economic Herald ) was sacked for publishing notes of a forum calling for the rehabilitation of Hu Yaobang , the former disgraced Communist Party 's general secretary who died in April this year , and expressing support for the student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square . |
| 13 | She rummages in her jewellery box where brooches , necklaces and earrings are jumbled together with enamel lapel badges expressing support for various radical causes — Support the Miners , Crusade for Jobs , Legalize Pot , A Woman 's Right To Choose — and selects a silver brooch in which the CND symbol and the Yin sign are artfully entwined . |
| 14 | DORJE WANGDU : a 33-year-old electrician from Lhasa , he received a three-year term of ‘ re-education through labour ’ , without charge or trial , in September 1991 , for peacefully expressing support for the Dalai Lama , Tibet 's Buddhist leader-in-exile , and for possessing ‘ reactionary ’ documents . |
| 15 | But none the less the community is expressing support for the FDR-FMLN in ways which it is really surprising to see . |
| 16 | Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez , expressing support for the Colombian government 's anti-drugs campaign , called for a " world war against drug trafficking " . |
| 17 | The most consistent reports were of a disturbance at a football match on March 25 in Kavaje ( close to Tirana , the capital ) where members of the crowd chanted slogans expressing support for President Ramiz Alia but attacking the repressive policies of his predecessor Enver Hoxha and the " Hoxha dynasty " . |
| 18 | He refused to rule out the military option , while Gorbachev stressed the need for a " political solution " and pointedly refrained from expressing support for a military move against Iraq . |
| 19 | A Minister of State , Piotr Nowina-Konopka , submitted his resignation on Nov. 21 , also expressing support for Mazowiecki . |
| 20 | On May 29 tens of thousands of demonstrators in Tirana 's Skanderbeg Square , calling for the overthrow of the government and expressing support for the hunger strikers , attacked police with rocks , bottles and fire-bombs . |
| 21 | On June 19 , Foreign Ministers issued a joint statement calling on Yugoslavia 's leaders to " resolve their disputes peacefully " and expressing support for the " territorial integrity of Yugoslavia " . |
| 22 | Civic and business groups in San Salvador organized a massive pro-government rally on Dec. 7 expressing support for the role of the army and calling for the demobilization of the FMLN . |
| 23 | MPs gathered in the House of Common on Sept. 24 for an emergency debate on the government 's handling of the currency crisis , and voted by 322 to 296 in favour of a motion expressing support for the government 's economic policy . |
| 24 | The Council issued a statement on Sept. 9 expressing support for the air exclusion zone imposed over southern Iraq , for the Moslems in Bosnia , the Somali people , and the UAE in its current dispute with Iran — rejecting Iran 's " continued occupation " of the disputed islands and affirming that the GCC would support any measures that the UAE might take to " affirm its sovereignty " . |
| 25 | This is a continuity and causing support for your members and that increase reflects enormous credit . |
| 26 | However , Ter-Petrosyan continued to accuse the Soviet leadership of colluding with the Azerbaijani leadership in order to punish Armenia 's nationalist government and to bolster flagging support for Azerbaijan 's communist regime led by President Ayaz Mutalibov . |
| 27 | So lest any misunderstandings arrive that this is some thin end of some wedge , I should also add that the restriction we 're proposing only applies to national committees , does n't apply to any other office anywhere in the union and to reinforce that point the C E C will be recommending support for a general motion underlining the rights of people who are unemployed or retired to hold office throughout the G M B. |
| 28 | He announced to cheers that he had written to Presidents Gorbachev and Bush seeking support for what has been called Prague 's polite revolution . |
| 29 | He announced to cheers that he had written to Presidents Gorbachev and Bush seeking support for what has been called Prague 's polite revolution . |
| 30 | Kraemer and Roberts ( 1984 ) ( see also Kraemer and Ossenkopp 1986 ; Kraemer , Hoggman , and Spear 1988 ) have invoked results from a rather different experimental procedure in seeking support for the retrieval-failure account of latent inhibition . |