Sentence examples for back the ruling from inspiring English sources

They fill the ranks of parliamentary private secretary (PPS's), the most junior rung of government but nevertheless crucial in convincing MPs to back the ruling party's policies.

A couple of months back, the ruling "red-green" coalition of Social Democrats and Greens looked done for and the "black-yellow" alliance of Christian Democrats and liberal Free Democrats, ousted in 1998, looked all set to return.

If three rounds of voting in the Greek parliament, the last on 29 December, fail to back the ruling coalition's candidate, Stavros Dimas, this could trigger a general election.

Mr. Dirceu, whom many call the architect behind Mr. da Silva's rise to power, resigned from the cabinet in June 2005 after being accused of heading a scheme to pay members of Congress to back the ruling Workers Partyy.

While it is not clear whether Nitschke will get his licence back, the ruling's basis – that he posed a serious and immediate risk to people – was quashed.

In Libya, NATO stepped in, with UN authorisation, to back the rebels; in Bahrain, the Saudis and their Gulf allies stepped in to back the ruling family.

If Turkey is backing the ruling alliance in forthcoming Somalian elections, the UAE appears to favour opposition candidates.

A quarter of the voters waited until the final week before making their mind up, and half of these backed the ruling party.

Turkey's and Kurdistan's shared embrace of the Syrian Kurds runs afoul of Tehran and Baghdad, who have backed the ruling Syrian regime to different degrees.

Regional divisions run deep, broadly splitting the north-west, which backs the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), from the south-eastern strongholds of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).

Export of value-added produce and the import of basic commodities such as wheat were monopolised by a small group of "entrepreneurs" protected by the security state who financially backed the ruling elite.