What does support mean

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

support

I.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a demonstration in support of sth/sb

▪ public demonstrations in support of the rebels

a gesture of support

▪ She wrote a letter to the Prime Minister as a gesture of support.

a message of support/sympathy/congratulations etc

▪ Other celebrities sent messages of support.

a support group (=a group that meets in order to help the people in it deal with a difficult time)

▪ She set up a support group for people suffering from the same illness.

a supporting actor (=acting a part that is not the most important one)

▪ She was awarded an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

a supporting cast (=all the actors except the main ones)

▪ There’s also a fine supporting cast.

a supporting role (=not one of the main roles)

▪ Lee has a supporting role as Judy’s best friend,

active support (=encouragement or help)

▪ He wrote the book with the active support of his wife, Pam.

an offer of help/support/friendship etc

▪ Any offers of help would be appreciated.

ask for sb’s support

▪ Labour councillors asked for our support for the proposal.

canvassing support

▪ The US has been canvassing support from other Asian states.

child support

command respect/attention/support etc

▪ Philip was a remarkable teacher, able to command instant respect.

community support officer

deserve support

▪ This is a splendid proposal which deserves our support.

drumming up support

▪ He travelled throughout Latin America drumming up support for the confederation.

emotional support

▪ She provided emotional support at a very distressing time for me.

enthusiastic support

▪ His policies won him the enthusiastic support of middle-income voters.

express your support (=say that you support someone or something)

▪ The Israeli leader expressed his support for the U.S. plan.

gain support

▪ The proposal failed to gain support.

generate excitement/interest/support etc

▪ The project generated enormous interest.

generous offer/support/donation etc

▪ my employer’s generous offer to pay the bill

groundswell of support

▪ a groundswell of support for the Prime Minister

income support

life support system

majority support (=votes or support given by the most number of people)

▪ a solution that will command majority support in the House

marshal support

▪ Senator Bryant attempted to marshal support for the measure.

meet with support/approval etc

▪ Her ideas have met with support from doctors and health professionals.

mobilize support

▪ a campaign to mobilize support for the strike

mutual support

▪ MAMA puts new mothers in touch with each other, for mutual support and friendship.

offer advice/help/support etc

▪ Your doctor should be able to offer advice on diet.

pledge (your) support/loyalty/solidarity etc

▪ He pledged his cooperation.

police community support officer

popular support

▪ There was widespread popular support for the new law.

practical help/support (also practical assistanceformal)

▪ There will be trained people available to listen and to provide practical help.

price support

prove/support an accusation

▪ There were very few facts to support the accusation against him.

prove/test/support etc a hypothesis

▪ We hope that further research will confirm our hypothesis.

rally support

▪ an attempt to rally support for the party

receive attention/affection/support

▪ She received no support from her parents.

seek support/approval

▪ He said he would seek shareholder support for the proposal.

stout defence/support/resistance

▪ He put up a stout defence in court.

strong support

▪ The idea won strong support in rural areas.

support a cause

▪ Giving money is only one way of supporting a good cause.

support a charity (=give money to one)

▪ Do you support any charities?

support a claim

▪ The court found no evidence to support her claim.

support a conclusion (=suggest that something is true)

▪ The evidence supports the conclusion that his death was an accident.

support a move

▪ The move was supported by the government.

support a notion

▪ There is no evidence to support the notion that girls are treated better than boys in school.

support a team

▪ "Which team do you support?" "Chelsea."

support a theory

▪ Modern research strongly supports this theory.

support a view (=believe or help to prove that it is right)

▪ There are many people who would support his views.

support an event (=pay to attend a charity event in order to encourage it )

▪ I’d like to thank everyone who came tonight for supporting the event.

support group

support staff (=office staff, technical staff etc)

▪ A school needs good support staff.

support/assist development (also further/facilitate developmentformal)

▪ We need to facilitate development and economic activity that provides jobs.

support/back a proposal

▪ Not one of these organizations supports the government's proposals.

support/defend/back sb to the hilt

▪ I’m backing the PM to the hilt on this.

supporting documentation

▪ Applicants must provide supporting documentation.

support...motion

▪ I urge you to support this motion.

technical support

▪ Our staff will be available to give you technical support.

technical support

▪ Maybe you’d better try calling tech support.

tremendous support

▪ She praised her husband for the tremendous support he had given her.

undying love/devotion/support etc

▪ They declared their undying love for each other.

unfailing help/support etc

▪ I’d like to thank you all for your unfailing support.

unqualified support

▪ He gave her his unqualified support.

unswerving loyalty/commitment/support etc

▪ a politician with unswerving loyalty to the President

whip up interest/opposition/support etc

▪ They’ll do anything to whip up a bit of interest in a book.

whole-hearted support/acceptance/cooperation etc

▪ Montgomery’s new style of leadership met with Leslie’s whole-hearted approval.

widespread support/acceptance/criticism/condemnation etc

▪ There was widespread support for the war.

▪ The storm caused widespread damage.

withdrawn...support

▪ One of the minority parties had withdrawn its support for Chancellor Kohl.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

strongly

▪ I strongly support the thrust of what the hon. Lady said.

▪ Participation by suburbs that once strongly supported magnet projects is in question.

▪ Both of these Republican presidents undertook aggressive antitrust actions, and both strongly supported, and expanded, federal housing programs.

▪ We believe therefore that the available evidence strongly supports the use of full-dose aspirin as adjunctive therapy to thrombolysis.

▪ We strongly supported that anti-lobbying clause.

▪ Let there be no mistake: the Oxford public strongly support the police and they have our confidence.

▪ The efficient-market hypothesis strongly supports index funds over more active mutual funds.

■ NOUN

claim

▪ But we must not support the innateness claim with the wrong arguments.

▪ This will help you support your claims, create continuity within the document, and use interesting language and ideas.

▪ Reformist government ministers used the press revelations to support their claims that Khasbulatov was building up a power base.

▪ A letter from Fremont to Senator Benton supports this claim.

▪ Or are public subsidies being given to support unspecified claims about cultural maintenance, diversity, and development?

▪ Several specialists questioned whether there is enough fossil evidence yet to support a claim for a new genus.

▪ Some patterns in the survey evidence seem to support this claim.

▪ To support its claim, Barneys cites certain terms of its lease agreements, including the length.

development

▪ Allied to this is the appropriate acquisition of resources both human and technical, to support the developments.

▪ In its decentralized and block form, federally supported community development can take many directions.

▪ Emap recently announced the creation of Emap Digital which will support the development of all group investments in internet and new media.

▪ Some of them we would characterize as networks, others as staff support / staff development cooperatives.

▪ One should not, however, think that the nucleus of any cell will support development if transplanted into the egg.

▪ In addition, the Congress is considering legislation supporting its development.

▪ All three organisations are now firmly supporting the development of a single survey in the future.

▪ They supported curriculum development and professional development for teachers and work-site mentors.

effort

▪ If we do not support their efforts, animal-based research in this country will be slowly stifled.

▪ Since my first days in the Congress, I have supported efforts to turn off the faucet of big-money campaign contributions.

▪ We need to support teachers in their efforts to steer our children in this direction.

▪ Some of the Act's underlying principles can support efforts to overcome suspicion between travellers and welfare authorities.

▪ The Human Rights Campaign is supporting an effort by Sen.

▪ He called on business to support the effort.

▪ In a widely supported effort that ended in December, black leaders, including the Rev.

evidence

▪ But there is already much evidence to support the presumption that the effect was pervasive.

▪ Browning found there was a lack of corroborating evidence to support the oral copulation offense, according Fox.

▪ There seems to be evidence to support both of these arguments.

▪ The anecdotal evidence is supported Statistically.

▪ However, while there is no proof, there is ample historical evidence to support many balance-of-power propositions.

▪ We have recently produced direct evidence supporting the possibility of amplification of the birth weight-blood pressure relation in childhood.

▪ On balance, the evidence does not support this tactical scenario, although it may well have occurred to de Gaulle.

▪ These suppositions are rejected because there is little evidence to support them.

family

▪ For example, the social security system sets conditions which can make it hard for families to support family members who live elsewhere.

▪ Obviously, the cost of building and installing a sys-tem big enough to support the average family would bankrupt a small nation.

▪ Was this the price that these incomers to Orkney were to pay for befriending and attempting to support another family in trouble?

▪ Interestingly, efforts to support the family at work have not always been friendly to women.

▪ What else did I have to support my family on in the West?

▪ We will set up a new Family Credit telephone advice service to support working families.

▪ Suicide was epidemic among men who felt their manhood lost because they could no longer support their families.

government

▪ Nationalists supported the Wilson/Callaghan governments for years, only to be stabbed in the back in the end.

▪ Fini said he might support a government led by Senate President Carlo Scognamiglio.

▪ The upshot was that the Liberals promised to support the Labour government in the House by their votes.

▪ I would support strongly a bigger Government grant for acquisitions because there are many good uses to which it could be put.

▪ The Liberal Democrats were supporting a Government which they claim to want defeated.

▪ Instead the structure chosen for the Inquiry ensured that it could only be resolved in favour of the course supported by the government.

▪ The opposition were loyally supporting the Government, but were also pressing for a definitive statement.

▪ In future, large amounts of taxpayers' money will go to support local government.

hypothesis

▪ These results support the hypothesis that individuals are willing to pay more in order to live in communities that provide high-quality services.

▪ This supports the hypothesis that adaptation is due to visual change.

▪ This tends to support the hypothesis that although customers will complain about price increases it does not necessarily alter their visiting behaviour.

▪ Seventeen pages of notes support his hypothesis.

▪ The finding that their number is neither affected by ranitidine nor by cisapride treatment does not support this hypothesis.

▪ Experimental and human studies support this hypothesis.

▪ The evidence, particularly of Willis, would support this working hypothesis.

idea

▪ Central and Fife are understood to be less enthusiastic but agreed to support the idea.

▪ Even before his death, Kerouac supported the idea of a portable reader of his work.

▪ This startling discovery has supported the idea that cancer develops when a cell contains too much of a perfectly normal cellular protein.

▪ The size of the hands indicate women made the handprints, supporting the idea that women artists created the paintings.

▪ In both patients naloxone led to great improvement, supporting the idea that endogenous opiates are involved in the condition.

▪ Many prominent college presidents and political scientists as well as a good many newspaper editorials supported the idea.

▪ What evidence can you find which supports the idea that historical knowledge has improved with time?

▪ It is a relationship supported by an idea that kinship matters profoundly.

party

▪ As a result the Edinburgh Conference of 1936 passed resolutions leaving the Labour Party supporting collective security but opposing rearmament.

▪ The guidelines competence was transferred to a Coalition Committee, a committee of representatives of the parties supporting the government.

▪ Moreover, the major parties today are supported by two distinct coalitions of voters, each with core interests and demands.

▪ In these systems, the electorate selects legislative candidates from a party committed to support a particular prime minister.

policy

▪ Finally, last Wednesday he threw in the towel, claiming he could no longer support Blunkett's policy on education.

▪ Environmentalists and representatives of the timber industry, nearly always at odds, find themselves supporting a policy of increased burning.

▪ One supporter said Mr Norris would not be able to support this policy.

▪ He should stop coming to the House pretending to support home-owners when his policies would discriminate against them.

project

▪ After the intensive twelve months support with the project, girls need somewhere to come with any problems that may occur later.

▪ It is usually subject to negotiation after the decision to support the project is made.

▪ These funds support infrastructure projects and training courses.

▪ International equity investment in local stock exchanges could also support renewable energy projects.

▪ Edinburgh City Council is also supporting the project and 14 other local primary schools are taking part.

▪ Gateways are available to online databases such as Profile and Kompass to support project work and research.

▪ Within their limited means, they provide community services, education programmes and support small workshop projects.

▪ He has not yet come off the fence and told us whether he supports the barrage project.

proposal

▪ This has been used to support proposals to move from income to expenditure taxation.

▪ Elorriaga had decided to withdraw when Congress refused to support his proposals on taxation and on the refunding of the public debt.

▪ However, a consultation exercise last year showed that councils, police and courts supported the proposals.

▪ We wonder if any of the other signers are similarly being misrepresented as supporting this seriously flawed proposal.

▪ No permanent member supported the proposal, and it was dropped.

▪ The newspaper, El Tiempo, supported the monarchical proposal without subterfuge.

▪ Margaret McGregor, the board's Labour convenor, is to support the proposal.

▪ His only promise to the Democrats, he says, was to support the final budget proposal that emerged from the committee.

research

▪ How can university personnel be involved to support research carried out in schools by teachers?

▪ Since then, Quaker has continued to support university-based research into the substance.

▪ Encourage innovative alternatives by supporting research and development of synfuels 4.

▪ The Faculty has a number of scholarships which are used mostly to support research students.

▪ Furthermore these are claims that have actually been supported by empirical sociolinguistic research.

▪ The certificate modules have been specifically designed to support teachers undertaking research in their own schools.

team

▪ Young people are placed in open employment and trained and supported by social service teams.

▪ Lanier said he thought he had Adams' support to attract a team.

▪ Oxford United's fans, more than fifteen hundred of them made the long journey to Tranmere on Saturday to support their team.

▪ For the most part, that community supported that team when it was fairly competitive.

▪ They're supported by teams of physiologists and laboratory researchers.

▪ They support their local baseball team, the Hanshin Tigers.

▪ General practitioners work mainly as individuals supported by primary care teams.

▪ Twelve staff, working in six shifts are supported by a team of engineers and administrative personnel.

view

▪ There is factual evidence to support the view that Storni entertained the idea of suicide long before 1938.

▪ There is no evidence to support this view.

▪ They support the views of Goldthorpe and Lockwood that clerical workers are in an intermediate class between the working and service classes.

▪ There are indeed certain aspects of the marriage system of such societies which support this point of view.

▪ Research evidence supports the view that this relationship is valued highly, especially by the grandparental generation.

▪ But it is not merely the minimum content of natural law which supports such a view.

▪ A recent study of primary school practice across the arts supports this view.

weight

▪ The liquid helps to support the weight of the compass card, and also dampens oscillation.

▪ The floors themselves were strong enough to support the weight of the materials used to fill in the gaps.

▪ Both your stand and the floor it stands on must be capable of supporting this weight.

▪ A major concern, he said, is that many sky divers use canopies that are too small to support their weight.

▪ The design specifications had called for the columns to rest on bedrock that supported a weight of seven tons per square foot.

▪ Righting the stool with his foot, he pushed it under Jason's dangling toes to support some of the weight.

▪ The main structural consideration with any door or window is supporting the weight of the structure above.

work

▪ If you are new, decide which senior colleagues would support you in your work.

▪ Interestingly, efforts to support the family at work have not always been friendly to women.

▪ You can help by joining the Research Defence Society and supporting our work to safeguard the future of biological and medical research.

▪ It also sells Lacandon crafts in the gift shop, and uses the proceeds to support its work in the jungle.

▪ In this way we trust that your appreciation of the need to support our work will grow.

▪ It is very important, therefore, that we do everything possible to support the mind work of reading.

▪ Proceeds from the sale of these corporate-generated materials support the ongoing work of the foundation.

■ VERB

continue

▪ There are good reasons for continuing to support the moratorium.

▪ This talented orchestra can only survive if the people of Merseyside continue to support it.

▪ Nevertheless, doctors continued to support the use of starvation diets.

▪ Apple will continue to support A/UX on its 680x0-based systems, but will be pushing PowerPC/PowerOpen-based systems into these markets.

▪ The salmon runs, though much reduced by overfishing in the spawning rivers, continue to support the leading fishery.

▪ And we will continue to support hill farmers through the Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowances.

▪ Most Democrats, of course, continued to support McClellan, attributing the fiasco entirely to administration mismanagement.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be loud in your praise/opposition/support etc

▪ Nevertheless, both my master and Agrippa were loud in their praise of my martial prowess.

moral support

▪ Steve went with her to provide moral support.

▪ I don't believe Wellington stayed to give De Gaulle moral support.

▪ I want you there not just for moral support but to have a witness present.

▪ Last year they gave heavy financial and moral support to Democrats.

▪ Louise came up for the funeral and stayed on for three weeks to give moral support.

▪ Mahdi denies that his movement wants weapons or financing from Washington, saying moral support and diplomatic pressure are enough.

▪ Voice over Finally, Dawn came here, where she's been given practical and moral support.

▪ When a baby is newborn, friends, family, and even strangers deluge us with moral support and advice.

▪ With his moral support a group of nobles and clergy from both sides tried to work out peace terms.

supporting part/role/actor etc

▪ At a crucial moment, the United States played an important supporting role.

▪ Benicio Del Toro won the best supporting actor prize for Traffic.

▪ But the chief joy despite several eye-catching supporting roles remains watching Courtenay milk the script for all its worth.

▪ He felt the other two were satisfied to play supporting roles to Gedge and to a lesser extent, himself.

▪ Hopper won a supporting role in that film too.

▪ Its most unarguable successes are in the main supporting roles.

▪ The meats are unfailingly tender and flavorful, and the stuffed tomatoes deserve a Tony Award for best supporting actor.

▪ The three supporting roles are all superbly played.

supporting wall/beam etc

▪ The roof was in an appalling state and the supporting beams were rotten.

▪ There was a portico, generally of wood, with posts supporting beams, and decoration was in terracotta.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ A lot of people can barely earn enough to support themselves, let alone their families.

▪ Do you have any evidence to support these claims?

▪ During the renovations, a temporary wall will support the ceiling.

▪ Employers support the training program by offering places for young people.

▪ For twenty-five years he painstakingly amassed evidence to support his hypothesis.

▪ He has a wife and two children to support.

▪ Her body was so weak that she had to be supported by two nurses.

▪ I always support the Girl Scouts by buying a few boxes of cookies.

▪ I am very grateful to members of the faculty who have supported me in so many ways.

▪ I have always supported the Democrats.

▪ If she can't support herself, how's she going to support a child?

▪ My friends and family have all supported me through the divorce.

▪ My parents didn't have to support me when I was at college because I received a grant.

▪ Plans for a new school were strongly supported by local residents.

▪ Public opinion in America supported Gandhi in his struggle for an independent India.

▪ She is my daughter, and I will love and support her no matter what happens.

▪ She wrote a newspaper article supporting the idea of a minimum wage for workers.

▪ Sitting at a table in the coffee shop, her chin supported by her hands, she was deep in thought.

▪ The ceiling was supported by huge stone columns.

▪ The changes in the tax code are supported by the Democratic party.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ Many elderly people support Milosevic because they are scared.

▪ Psychological theories support two main forms of gender bias.

▪ The environment ministry, to which it is ultimately responsible, supports it to the tune of almost 5m francs.

▪ The Fed chairman actually supports Mr Neal's bill.

▪ Together they shoot up, play soccer, get into barroom brawls, mug tourists and steal to support their habits.

▪ We supported the demands for a thorough and credible investigation by independent and impartial experts.

II.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

emotional

▪ It's an emotional support from my boyfriend, sister, father.

▪ Finally, the managers received critical emotional support from peers.

▪ In addition to medical prescription, victims require emotional support and reassurance which is not available from sources such as the family.

▪ While separating these activities analytically from other major processes, like emotional support, it does this for justifiable theoretical reasons.

▪ Personality based depression happens to people with poor self-image, or to some one who is heavily dependent on others for emotional support.

▪ A lot of practical information is exchanged, as well as emotional support.

▪ They didn't all desert their girlfriends when they became pregnant, some have remained to provide crucial emotional and practical support.

▪ That emotional support will be needed.

financial

▪ It must be emphasised that you can not expect any financial support from the University.

▪ All of these networks receive financial support from their national governments.

▪ The publication has received financial support from the Czech Ministry of Culture but is still in need of funding to ensure its survival.

▪ Jerry Lewis, left the title untouched but drained financial support.

▪ Normally this financial support passes from older to younger generations in families in a one-way flow.

▪ Ed Schafer has received more than 95 percent of its financial support from North Dakotans.

▪ Please give your financial support to help them continue their work tomorrow.

▪ President Robert Batscha would make regular forays West to draw financial support from the people and enterprises whose work is ostensibly honored.

full

▪ Roddy Neill, the Clydesdale Bank's business sector manager, said the improvements had the bank's full support.

▪ The United States will continue to furnish you and your people with the fullest measure of support in this bitter fight.

▪ Too early a Western commitment of full support could be dangerous.

▪ We see this as a national event of great importance and we are lending it our full support.

▪ We shall continue to give full and active support to the United Nations.

▪ The company is pleased to give them its full support, which includes supplying a 38 ton lorry.

▪ Promotional groups will only be effective when they can deliver the full support of their clientele.

▪ Will she give all such initiatives her fullest support?

moral

▪ He can also make a point of talking to Mr Yeltsin and other republican leaders to offer them moral support.

▪ By and large the teams gave each other both moral and technical support.

▪ The frontiersman heroes such as Davy Crockett no longer excite our moral support.

▪ When a baby is newborn, friends, family, and even strangers deluge us with moral support and advice.

▪ And for a number of reasons Lisa's moral support would have been welcome.

▪ Last year they gave heavy financial and moral support to Democrats.

▪ If he had to go, he should go quietly and give continued moral support to the paper.

▪ Bring a friend or relative for moral support and help in juggling insurance forms and your overnight bag.

mutual

▪ But those that come together for mutual support can and do survive.

▪ Something whole, something alive dwells in that mutual support.

▪ This relationship of mutual support between reading and text displaces the authorising criteria of true and false in critical activity.

▪ Tonight eight children would be married, thus forming important alliances and mutual support between families which would last lifetimes.

▪ His two-term governorship has been an exercise in incessant mutual support between Texas business and Texas politics.

▪ And by establishing coordination committees operating within the team concept, he brought about far better mutual support.

▪ Free discussion about attitudes to a problem will relieve anxiety, and mutual support can be obtained.

▪ Positive long-term acceptance of the child involves the parents' mutual support throughout the time after birth.

political

▪ Regardless of their initial intentions, their work has been understood and accepted as an open manifestation of political support.

▪ In the end, one has to wonder about the sources of political support for minimum-wage legislation.

▪ Yet is also harboured doubts about whether there was widespread political support for the Republicans.

▪ But Berisha, tied up in an election year and basking in Western political support, ignored the warnings.

▪ By building up an army of individual shareholders the Conservatives may well have expected to gain political support.

▪ The initiation and implementation of economic development projects also provides government with opportunities to gain political support from a diverse constituency.

▪ Control of jobs and access to political leaders can be used to win political support for themselves.

▪ The market quickly comes to be seen as unfair, and political support for official privatization falls.

popular

▪ On the other hand, thirteen percent hardly constituted the tidal wave of popular support that de Gaulle was looking for.

▪ All three bills had popular support, according to polls.

▪ The statement went on to urge popular support for Sihanouk's candidacy in these elections.

▪ Invocations of popular support or consent may be baseless and even blatantly dishonest.

▪ For one thing, there is not exactly a popular outcry in support of a Romanov return.

▪ The extent of popular support, if any, for this enterprise was never clear.

▪ It would not be surprising if, to gain popular support for emancipationist petitions, reformers had to work very hard.

public

▪ The government decided on dollarisation without getting public support for the project.

▪ The great exodus was on, from city to suburb, aided by developers but also enjoying great public support.

▪ As a major national organisation, commanding massive public support, the Trust's influence in Whitehall is strengthened.

▪ Bennett and others promote cultural renewal through public sermonizing and support for local initiatives like church programs to teach parental responsibility.

▪ You can not expect public support if you do not have the support of your own ministers.

▪ The Zapatistas' public support has dwindled in recent months, but officials say privately that Marcos remains a wild card.

▪ However, this development would require public support in the form of a new East Coast motorway.

▪ The union leaders appear to be building public support for their cause, with clever use of symbolic gestures and public relations.

social

▪ For them, the priority was the provision of direct social work support and advice.

▪ Strong social pressures often support or repudiate their use, and sometimes the pressures lead to control or prohibition by governments.

▪ He managed with twice weekly meals on wheels, and social work support.

▪ Day care, residential care and social work support essentially provide care in the community, rather than in large institutions.

▪ All other systems of social support should be for voluntary organizations of citizens to devise and subscribe to.

▪ At least at the beginning it lacked social support, usually freely available in the schools from which secondees came.

▪ These two groups of children have quite different characteristics, care histories, prognoses and needs for social work support.

strong

▪ We have given strong support to the Sports Council and its efforts to raise participation in sport.

▪ This apparently was done in spite of their claim that they required strong scientific support for their categories.

▪ Polling shows that the family-leave law has strong support among women voters and working families, he added.

▪ Thirdly, there is strong support for the hill livestock compensatory allowances, amounting to £142 million in a full year.

▪ It passed the Legislature with strong bipartisan support.

▪ However, it became clear that this section would need a much stronger system of support.

▪ But I knew I would get strong support from a lot of influential people.

technical

▪ Gold service will offer personal technical account support, on-site and phone support and extended coverage hours.

▪ A technical support team provided information systems, technical, and engineering support to the operating teams.

▪ Steve Belkin, 32, is technical support manager for a City software house.

▪ Verio provides around-the-clock network monitoring and technical support with all promotional packages.

▪ A nationwide sales force and technical services support can help with any application.

▪ It said it would hire more safety inspectors, create a technical support staff and continue to improve crew communications.

▪ The company will also provide them with the technical support necessary to ensure the milk's quality.

▪ If you're a newcomer to the Net, the technical support on offer will probably be important to you.

widespread

▪ In the north, the party can count on fairly widespread support.

▪ Yet is also harboured doubts about whether there was widespread political support for the Republicans.

▪ In this case there was widespread support and sympathy from the overtaxed gentry and clergy.

▪ It has widespread support in the House as far as it goes, but missing is legislation to protect against victimisation.

▪ But there is also widespread support for state or collective provision of welfare even over tax cuts.

▪ Does he accept that there is widespread support from industry and the community generally for the Government's roads programme?

▪ There is widespread support for the principle across the Community, and we believe that it should be rigorously applied in practice.

▪ There is widespread support for completing that road at the earliest opportunity.

■ NOUN

child

▪ This approach to child support also gives priority to a particular type of family relationship - that based on biological parenthood.

▪ But Garcetti said his office has made strides in child support collections.

▪ Maintenance and child support Bradshaw and Millar found that only 29 percent of lone parents received maintenance from their former partners.

▪ Nachshin argued that $ 30, 000 a month in permanent spousal and child support would be enough.

▪ Other trends noted by the report: The average California county collects only $ 78 monthly for each child support order.

▪ But we have no right to force collection of child support for the kids.

▪ He gives no money for the care of his son, and Aurora has abandoned plans to pursue child support.

▪ In addition, some custodial parents do not pursue collection of child support because they fear retribution from the nonpaying parent.

group

▪ Then Lisa, one of the support group for the Refuge, moved away.

▪ The strategic support group ground rules were all they needed to get started.

▪ A number of support groups were involved: Radical Alternatives to Prison.

▪ Announcements can be made from the pulpit about area shelters or support groups for abusers and victims.

▪ The support group wants to take part in a sitting service to give carers a break.

▪ She also was a benefactor to other health support groups and animal charities.

▪ One of lung cancer's success stories, he runs a support group for lung cancer patients and their families.

▪ By that time all the support group were staying at the Copley Plaza.

income

▪ Seventy percent had only income support.

▪ Savings of over £3,000 will limit the amount of income support.

▪ A switch from price support to income support comes dear.

▪ A person may be eligible for income support if their income is below their income support entitlement.

▪ Both of these categories may be helped under the income support scheme.

▪ Lone parents can earn up to £15 a week before their income support is reduced.

▪ This will mean that a person working 16 hours a week or more will not be able to claim income support.

▪ That means that more and more elderly people are being forced down to income support or poverty line levels.

life

▪ As the law stands it would be illegal to disconnect his life support machine.

▪ Her family approved the removal of life support, and she died Monday night.

▪ Her sister is effectively her life support machine.

▪ She was rushed to the Royal Alexandra Hospital, where she was put on a life support machine.

▪ Initially, life support will be provided as on a space station.

▪ He's unconscious and on a life support machine.

▪ Three bottles of oxygen and four cans of absorbent provide those seventy-two hours of emergency life support.

service

▪ Equally important as the links with the secondary sector are the links with pre-school and support services.

▪ The legislatures almost never have the level of support services that are available to the executive.

▪ There is therefore a need for better family support services.

▪ Now thousands of workers who had manned the booths and the support services had nowhere to turn.

▪ In addition, all published information related to the business environment and support services in Stirling will be collated and analysed.

▪ Ameia attended a school that offers special classes and support services for pregnant girls.

▪ Support will be available from leading vendors backed by a contractual support service from Microsoft.

▪ First-line administrative services managers directly oversee staffs involved in various support services.

staff

▪ Training regular training sessions and monitoring of all teaching and support staff.

▪ They tend to wear suits and have lots of support staff.

▪ The company employed new support staff in Congleton.

▪ Top executives are generally provided with spacious offices and secretarial and support staff.

▪ This can be broadly broken down for descriptive purposes as a program staff of 11, and a support staff of 4.

▪ It said it would hire more safety inspectors, create a technical support staff and continue to improve crew communications.

▪ A member of your support staff can then go through the newspapers extracting cuttings on a daily basis.

▪ From April 1, some 255 scientists and support staff were put directly under the control of Courtaulds operating businesses.

system

▪ Membership of a group also offers an added social support system.

▪ Proposed changes would phase out that support system, but guarantee farmers a gradually dwindling subsidy payment over the next seven years.

▪ The very rapid expansion of the education system has left support systems running to catch up.

▪ Despite this huge expansion, our students enjoy one of the most generous support systems in the world.

▪ In Amsterdam, Querido introduced a twenty-four-hour domiciliary support system, linked with the care of general practitioners.

▪ With adequate resourcing and well designed support systems, relocation can enhance lives.

▪ He's on a life support system.

■ VERB

attract

▪ It will help her attract support for the Thatcher Foundation - the means by which she hopes to preserve her legacy.

▪ The Communists vastly exaggerated their own Resistance role in order to attract postwar political support.

▪ North West Water's impressive set of results failed to attract support.

▪ Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who dropped out after failing to attract enough money or support.

▪ The movement attracted widespread support from peace campaigners.

▪ For Republicans running in blue-collar districts, where raising the wage attracts support, the argument hurts.

▪ Polreis' case has attracted attention among support networks for adoptive parents of troubled foreign children.

claim

▪ Retirement benefits are not enough to live on, so nearly 2 million pensioners have to claim income support.

▪ Hamas claims the support of about 15 percent of the population.

▪ The organisation claims the support of prominent industrialists and of former members of the security forces.

▪ He is fighting for a second term and claims the support of other key nations in defiance of the Clinton administration.

▪ This will mean that a person working 16 hours a week or more will not be able to claim income support.

▪ If the man does not leap in, the Adlerian can again claim support for his theory.

▪ If Mr Ali makes it here, his family could claim support worth £1,300 a month.

▪ To claim income support or a payment from the social fund contact your local social security office.

command

▪ Programmes would wither away if they did not command sufficient local support.

▪ This is an all-star team that commands support and respect.

▪ The coterie of would-be revolutionaries commanded no widespread support.

▪ It is a standard which even today does not command the support of a majority of this Court....

▪ Proposals for the expansion of post-school education are therefore likely to command majority support.

▪ There are other changes which would command general support.

▪ Clearly, this is a programme which could command considerable support, but its development has been impeded by several problems.

▪ The difficulty is to find a solution that will command majority support in the House.

continue

▪ This week-end event continues to excite enthusiastic support, demonstrating the strength of community life which exists in Kidlington.

▪ Schmidt said Bertelsmann was continuing to seek the support of other music companies in remaking Napster.

▪ Thank you for your continuing support.

▪ Strong, unified and continued support is essential.

▪ Meanwhile Fund raising events continue, your support is always appreciated.

▪ Ministers also continue to express full support for protective designations, especially the green belt26.

▪ Conference, scheduled for Sofia in 1995, and express their intention to continue their support for this process. 12.

enjoy

▪ Coffee, however, enjoyed no such support.

▪ The great exodus was on, from city to suburb, aided by developers but also enjoying great public support.

▪ Consequently, these relationships enjoy unrestricted support and protection.

▪ For 15 years, I have worked for a nonprofit civil-rights organization that regularly enjoys the co-counsel support of major law firms.

▪ The Socialist project of the Mitterrand government may be dead, but its cultural entrepreneurship continues to enjoy wide popular support.

▪ But Lott appears to enjoy the support of a majority of Senate Republicans, especially conservatives led by Sen.

▪ The Nonconformists were therefore greatly encouraged and enjoyed much popular support at this time.

▪ The growth of home ownership has enjoyed cross-party support in Parliament.

express

▪ UMass coach John Calipari said former players had called, expressing concern and support.

▪ Ministers also continue to express full support for protective designations, especially the green belt26.

▪ Texas Republican chairman Tom Pauken expressed strong support for the proposal.

▪ The rates were incapable of bearing the burden in their view and they expressed cautious support for a local income tax.

▪ More than 1,000 residents of Aldeburgh have expressed support for Mr Wilson.

▪ He began organizing the event in earnest after the White House expressed support 10 days ago.

gain

▪ In contrast, the electrostatic mechanism is moderately noisy and initially failed to gain any real support.

▪ Another way to gain support is to place a bed board between your box spring and mattress.

▪ Having gained the support of the staff, attention then focused on the children.

▪ They worried that the experienced subordinate would go over their head and gain support from their superiors.

▪ However, if the result is a more effective birth control programme, it may gain her active support.

▪ This arrangement proved fairly successful in terms of gaining popular support.

▪ Yet here was Gardner, muscles bulging through his blue singlet, gaining support from the and gaining hope.

give

▪ Internationalism required that two thoroughly nationalistic and non-socialist movements be given complete support.

▪ Studies of other disorders show that medications given without such support likely are doomed to fail.

▪ Competitors are forbidden to give each other support and are individually timed.

▪ This will happen only if a literacy struggle can be given the support and the priority that it demands.

▪ If so, you need to give her lots of support and encouragement to resolve that.

lend

▪ Some psychoanalytic writing appears to lend support to these assumptions.

▪ Elizabeth Hurley and Robert Wagner lend support.

▪ In these circumstances it was the business of responsible churchmen to lend support to the monarch in every way they could.

▪ We see this as a national event of great importance and we are lending it our full support.

▪ However plausible this suggestion, empirical investigation has lent it no support.

▪ These results lend support to the idea that tenascin alternative splice forms may also have functional significance at the protein level.

▪ And, given his political sympathies, was Bernstein deliberately lending his support to that account?

▪ Throughout the 1630s he continued to lend his wholehearted support to the Arminian takeover of his church.

need

▪ It needs support from an explanation, in terms of the conditional theory, of how there can be such counter-examples.

▪ They need all the support they can get.

▪ It needs the support of the Department of Culture as it reinvents itself.

▪ As men, we need this type of support.

▪ Imprisonment and becoming refugees had affected us badly and we needed the support we were given.

▪ If the floor is properly framed, you should not need extra support underneath to bear the weight of the fireplace.

▪ Now he needs to build his support by explaining what he believes in.

▪ As important as the Organization Pillar is, it still needs strong support from the other four.

offer

▪ Most adoption agencies offer support for three months after the adoption, but this is unlikely to be sufficient.

▪ Strangers patted their shoulders and offered words of support.

▪ They appeal for her to contact the hospital staff on a special telephone number so that they can offer her help and support.

▪ The president offers partial support for training for some workers, but no income support.

▪ Not only may she offer him her full support, she may say he is unassailable.

▪ Students may comfortably do this work if an adult is next to them, offering emotional support.

▪ A worship committee should be able to offer support as well as advice to the director.

▪ My job is to offer help, support, advice.

pledge

▪ He has pledged to increase support by 10 percent above the rate of inflation for the next three years.

▪ It pledges their support for efforts to protect the Stockton Darlington Railway Line.

▪ Netscape Communications also pledged its support for the new operating system.

▪ Having pledged its support for the environment and the poor, there is mounting pressure for it to institutionalize some safeguards.

▪ Call 623-1000 to pledge your support or get more information.

▪ More than 400 Wensleydale Smokebusters have pledged to help support some one wanting to give up cigarettes.

▪ The Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin was helpful toward that end and pledged monetary support.

provide

▪ David was therefore offered inpatient care for up to 10 days to provide him with intensive support.

▪ When crop-dusters come under fire, it is up to DynCorp helicopter pilots to provide support.

▪ Married women whose husbands provided the support expected of them, however, had a low risk of depression following life events.

▪ If they provide excellent support for some one of heavy build they're most unlikely to suit anyone lighter.

▪ The Trust provides fact-sheets and support for anyone affected by toxoplasmosis and educates health professionals.

▪ We will continue to provide generous support for students and to expand our student loans commitment.

▪ As well as losing power this provides support for the pronounced body lean into the turn.

rally

▪ A campaign to rally support for this was launched in March.

▪ Still, Reagan could not rally support sufficient to get the Congress behind the effort.

▪ The essential need when a proposed redevelopment poses a threat is to rally popular support.

▪ They must also be able to rally support and achieve results in the midst of almost constant organizational change.

▪ I intend to rally that support.

▪ She rallies support for the endangered whale, catalogues underwater life and creates new devices in which to explore virgin sea worlds.

▪ The intelligentsia was actively rallying support against the eviction.

▪ Banks own small stakes of their own and can rally support against a bidder.

receive

▪ Nevertheless, museums were among the first scientific institutions to receive direct government support for science, and particularly for scientific research.

▪ Being a conservative, Arrangoiz did not receive even as much support from Congress as had Pinay Cuevas.

▪ They have received the support of the private sector and they are now requesting material from the Regional Council.

▪ Example Mr Smith receives income support so he pays 20% of the community charge.

▪ Lilley asked to be put into receivership after a financial rescue package did not receive full support from its bankers.

▪ It is by no means clear that the Labour Party would receive little support in Northern Ireland.

▪ All of these areas of research receive financial support from industry or government sources.

▪ Gundobad fled to Avignon, where he may have received Visigothic support.

seek

▪ The Profitboss is wary of finance people, seeking their support but running miles to avoid their control.

▪ Schmidt said Bertelsmann was continuing to seek the support of other music companies in remaking Napster.

▪ I have to seek such support from charity.

▪ And, as noted earlier, the finance and senior executives at TeleCable already have the skills needed to seek equity-based support.

▪ However, in 1990 the government launched a full-scale economic restructuring package for which it sought World Bank support.

▪ Adolescents, as is appropriate, sought each other out in public places and sought support from each other.

▪ It sought formal Solidarity support for the government through a permanent representation committee.

▪ They judge for themselves the quality and character of the political leaders who parade before them on television seeking their support.

show

▪ Polls had until recently shown support for Mr Patten but now a majority wants him to back down.

▪ All the indicators show that parental support helps young people come through solvent abuse quicker.

▪ All true-blues fans should come out and show their support.

▪ A poll taken earlier this year showed 80% support for abolishing conscription.

▪ He also thanked those who came to show their support.

▪ A straw-poll of representatives yesterday showed support for the Chancellor is remarkably resilient.

▪ Nevertheless, statewide polls still show overwhelming public support for the Games.

win

▪ The aim of the exercise is to win support for the constitutional settlement that Britain and Ireland have already outlined.

▪ They have articulated plans and goals and have won the support of voters.

▪ Can you win back support in this area.

▪ But never before has the proposal gone so far as to win support from one house of Congress.

withdraw

▪ They withdrew their support and Fawcett, whom they had seconded to the project, moved on to other research.

▪ On Saturday, the joint chiefs met with Arteaga and formally withdrew support from Bucaram.

▪ On Wednesday, they threatened to withdraw support for a minimum wage boost if the so-called poison pill amendment passed.

▪ On 23 November, Pollitt and Campbell withdrew their support from the initial statement and were readmitted to their positions.

▪ In the same document, Ratzinger directed bishops to withdraw support from gay Catholic organizations that did not accept this teaching.

▪ If reinsurers receive further adverse experience on political risk, they may withdraw their support for this class.

▪ WordPerfect Corp is thought to have withdrawn its support.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be loud in your praise/opposition/support etc

▪ Nevertheless, both my master and Agrippa were loud in their praise of my martial prowess.

lend (your) support (to sth)

▪ Elizabeth Hurley and Robert Wagner lend support.

▪ In these circumstances it was the business of responsible churchmen to lend support to the monarch in every way they could.

▪ President Clinton lent support to the bill Monday.

▪ She lends support to the ecumenical cause.

▪ Some psychoanalytic writing appears to lend support to these assumptions.

▪ These results lend support to the idea that tenascin alternative splice forms may also have functional significance at the protein level.

lend weight/support to sth

▪ I lent weight to his side of the story but they sent him down.

▪ In these circumstances it was the business of responsible churchmen to lend support to the monarch in every way they could.

▪ Not withstanding the need for more investigation, the evidence surveyed in the previous chapter certainly lends weight to this view.

▪ President Clinton lent support to the bill Monday.

▪ Recognising this paradox lends weight to the patriarchy thesis, explaining away many apparent counter-examples.

▪ Some psychoanalytic writing appears to lend support to these assumptions.

▪ The recent closures of the paper mill and the aluminium smelter at Invergordon lend weight to this argument.