Sentence examples for debate in support of from inspiring English sources

Wednesday's final session staged a debate in support of embattled Colombian trades unionists.

"It's very carefully drafted," Ken Johnson, senior vice president of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, one of the biggest players in the debate in support of an overhaul, said of the commercial.

The revelation was one more challenge confronting the Perry campaign just as it was left reeling from his comments during a recent debate in support of granting the children of some illegal immigrants in-state tuition at Texas state universities, remarks that he later retreated from.

"There was a spirited and very strong floor debate in support of the amendment," Blumenauer said.

He introduced legislation to build more forts in the northwest, to grant federal funding for improvement projects in Indiana and Ohio, and led the debate in support of using federal funds to build the nations longest canal, Wabash and Erie Canal, through Indiana.

In 2014, Rees-Mogg was reported to the Parliamentary standards committee after he spoke in four debates in support of the tobacco, mining and oil and gas industries without declaring that his City firm had interests in sectors such as tobacco, mining and oil and gas.

While some left-wing members of the chancellor's coalition grumbled today that the government should have allowed more debate, actions in support of Israel generally draw widespread backing here.

Usually, as part of the debate, evidence in support of authenticity is fully aired.

The comments came in the Council's debate of a resolution in support of a March 21 march for immigration reform in Washington.

Liberal Democrat MPs who spoke in the debate were almost unanimously in support of the budget – reminding the house the increase in the personal tax allowance was a Lib Dem pledge.

This is precisely the function of a great university, where scholars debate and marshal evidence in support of their theories, as they strive to understand and explain our world.