Sentence examples for backing a resolution from inspiring English sources

But he later sided with conservatives in backing a resolution in 1998 that declared homosexual activity "incompatible with Scripture" and advised against the ordination of homosexuals.

Republicans are backing a resolution that would stop the F.C.C. from enforcing network neutrality laws, demonstrating that online speech remains vulnerable to deregulatory zeal.

Unlike Mr. Lieberman, she joined 38 fellow Democrats last month in backing a resolution, defeated by Republicans, that called for American forces to begin exiting Iraq this year, without setting a withdrawal deadline.

France's position continued today to be that it would not rule out backing a resolution authorizing force against Iraq, but only when it became clear that the inspections process would no longer work.

For most human rights activists the old commission embodied the worst tradition of the political fix, one country backing a resolution by another but only on the basis of deals stitched up behind closed doors.

In another challenge to the European Union's plan to regulate emissions from the world's airlines, 26 countries including China and the United States are backing a resolution urging that non-European airlines be exempted.

The council's assembly backed a resolution to withdraw the voting rights of Russia's 18-member delegation.

And at the state Republican convention on April 14, nearly half the delegates backed a resolution supporting civil unions.

Benjamin Netanyahu has summoned the ambassadors of all UN security council members which backed a resolution condemning Israeli settlements to "personally reprimand" them.

Nearly 100 members of the House of Representatives backed a resolution calling on the US government to drop the MEK from the terrorist list.

But Washington took an unprecedented step in August of declining to back a resolution that would have retained Europe's dominance.