Sentence examples for back the proposals from inspiring English sources

Ms Harman had initially decided Labour's official position would be to back the proposals – announced in George Osborne's Summer Budget – warning her party that Labour must not offer "blanket opposition".

It is believed that not all of the board back the proposals, which are likely to play badly with some of the hundreds of elected members who sit on the Co-op's national and regional boards.

The French president, François Hollande, also made a direct appeal to British MPs to back the proposals, saying: "We want to destroy terrorism … I hope that the House of Commons will be able to meet the request of prime minister Cameron".

The Unite union also expressed ambivalence and said it would not be rushed into backing the outline deals, which detail the general structure of the new pension schemes, although fine details will be ironed out in further talks if unions back the proposals.

Some cabinet members close to Brown back the proposals, but believe the government may have cold feet, deferring a decision until after the election in the same way that politically difficult decisions on the future funding of higher education have been delayed until a post-election review.

Editors have lined up to back the proposals.

The Independent's economics editor, Sean O'Grady, is one of the few commentators to back the proposal.

He said the league took back the proposal on Friday, in part because "they maybe underestimated the response, the blowback they were going to get from the proposal".

The chairmen of the state Republican and Democratic Parties back the proposal, as does Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz.

Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, is working with the organization on a bill to back the proposal.

Mr. Lazio, allied with some other Republicans, was able to scale back the proposal before it passed in October 1998.