Sentence examples for backed a decision from inspiring English sources

Larry Rohter (NYT) AFRICA SIERRA LEONE: POLL DECISION BACKED -- The United Nations and Britain backed a decision by Sierra Leone to postpone its presidential election, saying the country was too unstable for a fair ballot to be held.

Ms. Reno ultimately backed a decision earlier this week by the Board of Immigration Appeals to allow Mr. Al-Najjar's release.

The current administration backed a decision in October 2001 by the bureau not to adjust the census and not to release the statistically derived estimates.

A court backed a decision by the Bangladeshi central bank to remove Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel laureate, from Grameen Bank, the institution that he founded.

Court of appeal judges have backed a decision to take a four-year-old girl into care on the grounds that her long-term emotional health and life chances were threatened by her mother's inability to control her child's behaviour.

Usain Bolt has backed a decision to uphold the ban on Russia's track and field athletes competing at the Rio Olympics, saying the sport needed to make a statement because "doping violations are getting really bad".

Perhaps the toughest night was when it came to a vote on a referendum, proposed by a Tory backbencher, which the Labour shadow cabinet agreed to back – a decision that triggered the resignation of the deputy leader Roy Jenkins.

The Institute of Directors has made a rare intervention on executive pay, urging BP shareholders to think twice before backing a decision to award $20m£14m4m) to chief executive Bob Dudley in a year when the company ran up its worst-ever losses.

It comes after the broadcaster's governing body, the BBC Trust, indicated on Tuesday it would back a decision to move its youth-oriented BBC3 TV channel online, saving £30m a year.

Former Wales flanker Martyn Williams would back a decision to rest George North for the remainder of the season.

Fifa vice-president Jim Boyce, from Northern Ireland, is prepared to back a decision in principle to move the World Cup to the winter.