"backing" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Fatah publicly disassociated itself from the group, but it is widely believed that it enjoyed Arafat's direct or tacit backing.
- Senator Rick Santorum, a Pennsylvania Republican, is sponsoring legislation favoring "regime change," with what some say is the tacit backing of administration conservatives.
- The Israeli offensive in the West Bank, which has the tacit backing of the Bush administration, has succeeded so far in stopping suicide attacks in Israel.
- They see Croatia becoming an almost ethnically pure state with tacit American backing and Serbs outside Serbia being hounded or bombarded.
- The I.R.A. statement gave this outlook tacit backing, counseling followers to be "guided by their political leaders."
- Various media outlets reported that Oaten had the tacit backing of Charles Kennedy, although this was denied by Kennedy's office.
- Despite their differences, he gained the tacit backing of the Democratic Unionist Party, who had won only 9.8% of the vote in 1992 and chose not to stand their own candidate.
- On 17 August 1945, with tacit Japanese backing, Soekarno proclaimed the independence of the Republic of Indonesia, from his Jakarta home.
- Despite such a laudable move, pro-Indonesian militia launched a bloody campaign of intimidation, with the tacit backing of the army.
- Since 1945, left-wing nationalists have consistently been persecuted -sometimes imprisoned, sometimes even killed - in South Korea, usually with the tacit backing of the United States.
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