"I think he should run a very tough campaign," said Edward I. Koch, the former Democratic Mayor who is grudgingly supporting Mr. Giuliani's re-election.

For example, the "business class", traditionally Republican, grudgingly supported the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt and accepted the money the New Deal brought into town.

Rosie Mendez, the local City Council member, grudgingly supports the restaurant idea.

That will not be enough for Mr. Evans-Cato, but he will grudgingly support any measure that would raise Brooklyn's buried history above ground.

Critics of nuclear systems in space often grudgingly support atomic-powered scientific probes of deep space but strongly oppose the proliferation of reactors in Earth orbit.

Before Vietnam's withdrawal of an estimated 300,000 troops from Cambodia last year - a condition set by the United States for normalization -American allies grudgingly supported the embargo.

Connecticut's men's basketball coach, Jim Calhoun, said that a split between the Big East football and basketball universities was inevitable and that he somewhat grudgingly supported the idea.

Industry initially opposes these moves, then grudgingly supports them.

Even Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, once a champion of Israel's retaining control of the West Bank, grudgingly supports creation of a Palestinian state there.

A few residents said they grudgingly supported the tax.