George Burton had chaired the club for over 20 years with a paternalistic attitude, cultivating and fervently supporting the amateur spirit of sport.

Japanese officials fervently support it, though they say they have no illusions about changing Mr. Bush's mind.

Aside from a general dissatisfaction with the Prince's authoritarian government, the assembled rebels fervently supported union with Greece.

President Ali Khamenei, a cleric who favors an open-door policy, fervently supports more planning of the economy.

They fervently support democracy, oppose political deals with the imperialist powers, and advocate a spreading of the revolution until it becomes global.

He remembered, too, how homosexuals fervently supported his candidacy, and has done all that can reasonably be expected to associate himself with their causes.

He fervently supports "old-fashioned" traditional values and is politically conservative.

In this vivid telling, Booth was a flamboyant actor who fervently supported the South.

Mr. Blount says he fervently supports school prayer.

He saw it as Bush did, as a comprehensive war against an extremist ideology, and he fervently supported the invasion of Iraq.