Sentence examples for before in support of from inspiring English sources

He has said this sort of thing before, in support of his new friend Michael Gove's reforming ambitions for the school history syllabus.

Business and union officials spoke Thursday, as they have before, in support of the continued operation of Indian Point, arguing that the economy would be hobbled by the loss of so much cheap electricity.

Bjork has sung the song before in support of independence movements; performing in Japan in February, she dedicated it to Kosovo.

As we have said before in support of the Marketplace Fairness Act, the fundamental issues here are ones of rationality and fairness.

Both Pharrell and Timberlake knelt onstage, following in the footsteps of Wonder, who took to both knees during a concert in New York City the day before in support of Colin Kaepernick's protests against racial injustice in America.

Instead, it has continued to do mainly what it was doing before, conducting raids in support of the Iraqi army and the peshmerga.

In 2000, Haugen testified before Congress in support of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.

He testified before Congress in support of government financing of scientific research, and, in academic circles, was a leading supporter of affirmative action, but never penetrated to the public at large.

But Robert S. Turner, a Reagan administration lawyer who has testified before Congress in support of signing statements, said he was pleased Mr. Obama was willing to use the device if he decided that signing a bill was in the national interest but that obeying part of it would be unconstitutional — including provisions that might amount to an "usurpation of presidential power".

A sports article on Tuesday about the Paralympic skier Ralph Green, whose left leg was amputated after he was shot in 1992, misstated the given name of the surgeon general who asked him to testify before Congress in support of gun control.

Alcoa was the only major company to give testimony before Congress in support of legislation proposed by Senators John McCain, Republican of Arizona, and Joseph I. Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut, that would have imposed statutory caps on total emissions, although DuPont wrote a letter favoring the measure.