He's given different quotes about this: He didn't know, he did know, he kinda knew, he wanted the trade to happen, he was coming back, he needed a year off," Simmons shot back.
Broadcasters were jittery about his new project, a film about wannabe suicide bombers, but this week it emerged he has finally won the backing he needs.
Mr. Bush nonetheless went to extraordinary lengths today to argue that he is getting all the backing he needs, and more.
The alternative, they worry, is political oblivion.Labour's re-entry into the ruling coalition could give Mr Sharon the political backing he needs to grasp his "moment of truth" and follow the road map to peace with the Palestinians.
Three years later Hamilton was signed to the McLaren and Mercedes-Benz Young Driver Support Programme, where he was given the support and backing he needed to train and develop his skills.
Castresana felt that he no longer had the backing he needed from the Guatemalan government or the U.N. On June 7th, after running the commission for two and a half years, he abruptly resigned.
Jane Holzer, known as Baby Jane when she earned her measure of fame with Mr. Warhol in the 1960's, provided Mr. Boley with the backing he needed to take over the lease of Boulder Brook Stables and to begin the renovation.
Though there was no proof of Chechen involvement, the bombings (and an incursion into neighbouring Dagestan by Mr Basayev) gave Mr Putin the backing he needed to launch a second invasion of the republic since its declaration of independence in 1991.
In any case, Mr. Maliki was unable to muster the political backing he needed, particularly from the powerful political bloc headed by the cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, for giving the Pentagon the guarantees it wanted of indemnity from Iraqi courts, a condition that has been a staple of all American deployments overseas, including Germany, where American forces have been based continuously since 1945.
