For conservative backers of Judge Roberts, any delay poses a danger, giving opponents more time to raise questions and mount opposition.

One of his campaign's internal polls showed that moderate voters who like him think he's moderate, while his conservative backers consider him conservative.

They want to keep the defense faith with their conservative backers and put the onus for deeper cuts on the Democrats.

Speaker Newt Gingrich angered his conservative backers by proposing that tax cuts be postponed until after a balanced budget is passed.

Though Mr. Allard said he believed he still had a chance of success, many conservative backers of the amendment are resigned to defeat.

Leoa and her conservative backers wouldn't touch this fiasco with a ten-foot pole.

Some of the most conservative backers of the revolution today became protesters against unnamed "traitors."

Gloom is greatest among his conservative backers who had hoped for a faster pace of change.

An hour later, the amendment was defeated, while its conservative backers sat stonily in their seats.

Instead, the streets belonged to the conservative backers of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's conservative supreme leader.