Sentence examples for and backs a from inspiring English sources

2001: The new king, Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, institutes reforms and backs a new Parliament.

Second, he advocates more investment in infrastructure at the European level and backs a better mix of fiscal retrenchment, focused more on cutting current spending than on axing investment and raising taxes.

TO TEHRAN'S businessmen, they are known as the tea-ceremony set: foreign day-trippers sizing up the bounty that could be on offer if Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, takes the plunge and backs a conclusive nuclear deal with the West.

Another senior Democratic Senator, Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, who serves on the Armed Services Committee and backs a limited missile defense, said he was struck by Mr. Bush's "very conclusively positive" statement about Mr. Putin after a "first two-hour meeting".

As Washington built a coalition to fight Islamic State, Turkey stayed on the sidelines, refusing to let the US use its airbases here for strikes unless it also targets President Assad and backs a no-fly zone in Syria.

"It's a disappointment," agrees Phyllis Cuttino, director of the clean energy program at the Pew Charitable Trusts in Washington, D.C. Pew has closely studied fuel use by the DOD and backs a move toward alternatives.

Sure, the Republicans lost a House seat by ejecting a moderate and backing a fire-breather.

NIF charged in as a white knight and backed a rival management buy-out.

But they turned with a vengeance and backed a coup that briefly ousted him in 2002.

Then, as in Afghanistan today, our government had installed and backed a corrupt client state.

Yet as a senator Barack Obama opposed (and backed a filibuster against) Dubya's nominees.