What is "supporters"

Usage examples of "supporters".

INC and its American supporters, since the fall of the Taliban, some of its advocates have divorced the idea from the need to back the INC as the primary opposition group.

Unfortunately, the fact that Ricciardone, Indyk, and I were all singled out for special venom by the INC despite the fact that we were essentially their lone supporters within the government was not lost on other administration officials, who concluded that the INC was a dog determined to bite the hand that was feeding it.

Many supporters of deterrence against Iraq have taken this experience as conclusive that the terror inspired by nuclear weaponry is so overpowering that it trumps all other considerations and produces extremely conservative behavior that creates an uneasy, but durable, peace between the two sides of any nuclear standoff.

Vice President Gore, who had been one of the most vocal supporters of using military force against Saddam, was livid.

Increasingly, Chalabi developed a network of supporters among the right wing of the Republican Party and used these powerful friends to wage an internal war within the Iraqi diaspora for control of the opposition.

Although the strategy was first conceived by the INC and its American supporters, since the fall of the Taliban, some of its advocates have divorced the idea from the need to back the INC as the primary opposition group.

Since Saddam does not have the same kind of international network of supporters, safe houses, and means of traveling in secrecy as Usama bin Ladin does, he should be easier to catch.

They gathered supporters, but were captured as their ammunition ran out.

When, in the summer of 1903, Washington spoke to an audience of two thousand at a Boston church, Trotter and his supporters prepared nine provocative questions, which caused a commotion and led to fistfights.

The Democrats were being true to their historic role as supporters of military intervention, anxious to show that foreign policy was bipartisan.

Wade decision aroused a pro-life movement that had strong supporters in Washington.

When, in 1994 and 1995, abortion clinics were attacked and several supporters murdered, the conflict became grimly intense.

Last month, flotilla supporters in private planes buzzed downtown Havana in a deliberate breach of Cuban air space.

The cemeteries of Hialeah are full of potential Raul Martinez supporters, absentee in the largest sense of the word.

At least nine of those supporters registered at homes owned or occupied by family of De Goti.