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On the Labour side, the resignation last month of Peter Mandelson robbed Mr Blair of a powerful supporter of the project inside the cabinet.
He was regarded as a powerful supporter of Willy Brandt's overtures to Communist East Europe known as Ostpolitik and of the reunification policies of Helmut Kohl.
"Society has a barrier it will not cross and it is that atrocities are not forgiven," Senator Rafael Pardo, a powerful supporter of Mr. Uribe, told Colombia's leading newspaper, El Tiempo.
1748 near Dublin, Ireland January 28 , 1802Dublin, Ireland John FitzGibbon, 1st earl of Clare, (born 1748, near Dublin, Ireland died January 28 , 1802 Dublin), lord chancellor of Ireland who was a powerful supporter of a repressive policy toward Irish Roman Catholics and, from 1793, a strong advocate of union with Great Britain.
For proponents of net neutrality in Britain and elsewhere, having such a powerful supporter to point to is important.
Yet, as Castor shows, Joan already had a powerful supporter in the Duke of Lorraine, who believed in her "voices", the voices of her patrons, Saints Catherine and Margaret, and her mission from God; and among her riding companions was a messenger from Charles's court.
He has a powerful supporter in Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, who said last week that he has consistently opposed "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and is exploring ways to get rid of it in the current legislative year.
IN KERRY'S CORNER -- Senator John Kerry has a powerful supporter in the former governor of New Hampshire, Jeanne Shaheen.
Their anger reminded me of the moment in the 1989 film Romero when a wealthy and powerful supporter of Salvadoran archbishop Oscar Romero angrily blames liberation theologians for the kidnapping of his politician son-in-law, crying, "The church is a whore.
Schumer's decision makes him the most powerful supporter of a resolution of disapproval from Sens. Chris Murphy (D-Conn)., Al Franken (D-Minn).
Mr Rafsanjani has emerged as perhaps the most powerful supporter of Mir Hosein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's main opponent, and a leading critic of the embattled ruling establishment.Many came to hear him speak.
