Sentence examples for backing the proposition from inspiring English sources

The poll found only 40 percent of black voters backing the proposition with 52 percent opposed.

Much of New York City's legal establishment is backing the proposition, including the New York City Bar Association and the New York State Trial Lawyers Association.

The plaintiffs, represented by Theodore B. Olson and David Boies, sought to prove that opponents of same-sex marriage were motivated by discriminatory animus when they backed the proposition.

Oil companies and allies have donated more than $8 million to back the proposition, including more than $4 million from the Texas oil refiner Valero Energy, and $1 million from the Koch family, who has backed the Tea Party movement inside the Republican Party.

Draper spent more than $23 million of his own money to back the proposition.

He backed the March proposition, which will allow some money to be raised for flood control and groundwater storage.

Mr. Draper said he planned to create a broader political coalition than the conservatives and religious groups that backed the 1993 proposition, though he has not disclosed any backers.

At some point, the Syrian military and business elites will decide that backing the dictator is a losing proposition.

State legislators said there was virtually no chance of seeking to roll back the Proposition 13 property tax limitation on homeowners.

As the dispute rumbles on, they might ponder the fate of their Republican colleague who also allied himself with the "heritage" wing of his party: Pete Wilson, the governor of California who backed the anti-immigrant Proposition 187 and found that the California Republican Party was destroyed in the next election.

The measure's passage has spurred protests in California and across the country, including at several Mormon temples, a reflection of that church's ardent backing of the proposition.