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Usage examples of supports.

The reindeer, that useful animal, from whom the savage of the North derives the best comforts of his dreary life, is of a constitution that supports, and even requires, the most intense cold.

In addition, it would be helpful for the administration to present at least some of the evidence that supports this case.

The evidence we have from defectors and expatriates also supports this supposition.

Professor Mazar argues that this stele supports the traditional view as given in the Bible.

The elephant, which traditionally supports Indra, is called Airavata, the celestial ancestor of all elephants and symbol of the rain-bestowing monsoon-cloud.

He argues that this supports the idea that the Americas were peopled by three separate migrations.

If they hope to hang onto their lucrative price supports, they need to appear more concerned about their waste water.

But there is not a word in his voluminous diary entries for December 1940 which supports him in this.

It was a peculiarly constructed table in that it stood not on legs but on two large heavy supports, or socles, placed near the ends and extending to nearly the width of the table.

The fugitive slave clause of the Constitution and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community where the moral sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself.

The fugitive-slave clause of the Constitution and the laws for the suppression of the foreign slave trade are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community where the moral Sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself.

Unity Party supports the CoDominium, and the CoDominium keeps the peace.

As the President himself had requested the resolution, the episode supports the theory that international conventions to which the United States is party, even those terminable on notice, are terminable only by act of Congress.

Inasmuch as the privilege granted by a State to a foreign corporation of carrying on local business supports a tax by that State on the income derived from that business, it follows that the Wisconsin privilege dividend tax, consistently with the due process clause, may be applied to a Delaware corporation, having its principal offices in New York, holding its meetings and voting its dividends in New York, and drawing its dividend checks on New York bank accounts.

I never heard anything drop from him which supports the probability of such a remark, and certainly there is nothing in his note to warrant the inference of his having made it.