His closest supporters believed Ismail had gone into hiding to protect his life.

Which is precisely why her own closest supporters shut her down.

He walked out of the circle then, his closest supporters falling in line behind him.

The remark surprised even some of the governor's closest supporters.

Even Mr. Clinton's closest supporters describe themselves as making the best of a dire situation.

Yet even South Africa's closest supporters hesitate to call it a democracy.

Nonetheless, he has come farther than even his closest supporters predicted.

The crushing defeat obliged Venizelos and a number of his closest supporters to leave the country.

The Senators' efforts to deal with what even their closest supporters acknowledge is a political crisis are as different as the lawmakers themselves.

Then Bradford, followed by a handful of his closest supporters.