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Usage examples of supporter.

As the long waves of amphtracs, each trailing a plume of white spray, raced with their supporters toward the beaches, the fire support battleships, cruisers and destroyers, anchored only 1250 yards off shore, delivered frontal and enfilading fire on beach defenses.

At last, he turned back to the magnate, who had been a firm supporter of his rule since that blustery day in Sagun-tum nine years before.

When he got discouraged, Marcie was his staunchest supporter and cheerleader.

Whether Yousef was involved or not, the timing of the OKC bombing threatened to cause a mistrial in the case against his supporter in the Trade Center bombing, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman.

The most relaxed Preservationist is an order of magnitude more security-conscious than our most diligent supporter.

Matters were involved in greater peril at home: for besides Sextius and Licinius, the proposers of the laws, re-elected tribunes of the commons now for the eighth time, Fabius also, military tribune, father-in-law of Stolo, avowed himself the unhesitating supporter of those laws of which he had been the adviser.

It is thus clear that Dostoevsky considered himself, far from being a partisan of reaction, to stand somewhere in the middle as an enthusiastic supporter of all the liberal innovations, beginning with the abolition of serfdom, instituted by Alexander II.

Hiraga left, keeping his head on his tatami to hide the gnashing of his few remaining broken teeth, wanting to humble Hiraga, make him sweat, telling him, not sorry at all: oh so sorry, your late whore Koiko was implicated in the plot, so was your trained female assassin and wife-to-be Sumomo who had her head chopped off too, and your shishi supporter Meikin, mama-san to the most important men in Yedo--even Gyokoyama leaders--is not long for this earth because we surmise Yoshi knows all this too.

The new deputy defense secretary saw Saddam as unchastened by his Gulf War defeat and a supporter of terrorism.

And yet, improbable and unphilosophical as it is, it has never found a lack of supporters.

Those attempts led to new violent confrontations between the government and supporters of the FIS, including the jailing of a prominent FIS leader, Abbasi Madani.

Then one hot September night I attended a meeting of ardent Adlai supporters like myself, and a tall sandy-haired young man took the floor.

In mid-1991, Bin Ladin dispatched a band of supporters to the northern Afghanistan border to assist the Tajikistan Islamists in the ethnic conflicts that had been boiling there even before the Central Asian departments of the Soviet Union became independent states.

I could now, that that man driving a European sports car rather too fast through the main highway nexus was probably a supporter of the Citizens of Vados, and that consequently the long-faced Amerind lighting a candle and crossing himself before the wall shrine in the market was prepared to hate him on principle.

I threw in the job now, it was certain that Angers or someone in the traffic department with a direct emotional involvement in the situation would be ordered to solve the problem to the taste of the governmentor rather, of their well-to-do supporters.