It backed Neville Chamberlain's policy at Munich in 1938, regarding Hitler's claims on the Sudetenland as legitimate.

Unlike Wheeler, Murray gave up his isolationism in foreign affairs, and backed Roosevelt's aggressive foreign policy against Germany and Japan in 1939-1941.

Party leader David Cameron refused to support the creation of more grammar schools instead backing Labour's policy of City Academies.

Now Taiwan's voters have backed President Ma's policy of opening and seeking to lower tensions with China.

The children's charities are backing our policy of a children's rights commissioner to whom children can go, wherever they are, and be listened to.

People who originally backed Mr. Bush's policy say they, too, have been disappointed.

Although Maiorescu himself rejected a ministerial appointment in the Ion Brătianu administration, he and the other self-styled "moderate conservatives" backed Brătianu's practical foreign policy.

Lang also backed the government's non-intervention policy in regard to the Spanish Civil War, saying that there were no clear issues that required the taking of sides.

There was a shift in Washington, too, with the collapse of the bipartisan coalition that had been backing Mr. Bush's policy.

He backed Theodore Roosevelt's domestic policy, including new regulations for railroads.