The Elector made it clear that he too was against the proposals, and publicly sided with the Whigs.

In 1957, he publicly sided with the signers of the Göttingen Manifesto against arming the German military with tactical nuclear weapons.

In 1998, when one of Walser's speeches created huge controversy, Grosser publicly sided with Walser.

The controversy effectively ended when President Theodore Roosevelt publicly sided with Burroughs, publishing his article "Nature Fakers" in the September 1907 issue of Everybody's Magazine.

During the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike, MacFarlane publicly sided with the Writers Guild, and fully participated in the strike.

There was little room for compromise between previous allies, especially as the Labour Party took advantage of the situation to discipline and expel all those who publicly sided with the Communists.

Mr. Bebear of AXA publicly sided with Banque Nationale de Paris last week.

Hutter publicly sided with Helfert.

Seth MacFarlane, the creator of the series, publicly sided with the Writers Guild, and fully participated in the strike and other events pertaining to the issue.

Despite their antagonistic relationship, Carter-Ruck publicly sided with Private Eye when the magazine lost a £600,000 libel case against Sonia Sutcliffe in 1989.