Sentence examples for backing one side from inspiring English sources

"We worry about being seen to endorse something which could give people the impression that we were backing one side," Mr. Thompson said on the BBC's Web site.

It was a battle between Uncle Sam and the Evil Empire, with other nations backing one side or the other.

We have therefore withdrawn from membership of CBI Scotland while they are officially backing one side in that debate".

Nobody knows whether in six months' time they will be part of Ukraine or part of a breakaway state, and there could be recriminations for calling it the wrong way and backing one side.

"Simply backing one side and beating down the other, seemingly helpful, will in fact only sow seeds of future disasters," said the article, signed Zhong Sheng, an often-used pseudonym that can be read to mean "China's voice".

The other three members, says a diplomatic source, balked at this idea as "tantamount to backing one side in a future civil war".On November 15th they met again in Cairo, but made little progress.

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Powered by a bank of automobile batteries lined up side-by-side in the trunk, hydraulics raise or lower the car -- front, back, one side or the other -- at the driver's whim.

Hazard tried to wrestle it back, one side then the other, realised he was getting nowhere and made the mistake of delivering a short, impatient kick to release it from beneath the teenager.

Also, one key difference between the 90s War and the new one would be that we would be backing one of the sides with arms, money and diplomatic cover.

That duality is turning into a messy soup of Israel vs Arab and Sunni vs Shi'a and all the other states that have joined in the Syrian war by proxy and are backing one of those sides.