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Among the 27 members of the European Union, the proposal has firm backing from Germany, France and nine other countries.

Economists and officials say the state's victory -- with firm backing from the central government -- was a turning point.

In a notable change of tack, America is seeking firm backing from its major allies.Britain and Germany have already signed on, and their foreign ministers have delivered speeches in support of sweeping change in the Middle East.

Mr Tusk, 57, got firm backing from Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and UK Prime Minister David Cameron for the council presidency job.

The main findings focus on renewable energy plant sprawl throughout rural areas in Andalusia with no clear effect on landscape management and no firm backing from the local population.

This is expected to be the last EU summit for Mr Monti, an unelected technocrat who had firm backing from Brussels but got just 10% in last month's Italian elections.

As Lou Gerstner recounted in his bestseller, "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?", he brought the firm back from the brink after he became its chief executive in 1993 by shifting its focus from selling hardware to selling services.

The next day, skittish employees inside Lehman's Times Square headquarters held their breath as Richard S. Fuld Jr., Lehman's chief executive, held an urgent conference call with investors and analysts to announce the biggest quarterly loss in the company's 158-year history — as well as a master plan to pull the firm back from the brink.

But he almost single handedly pulled the firm back from the brink.

The Fed chairman did highlight some risks to the health of the economy, admitting that wobbly corporate confidence was still holding firms back from new spending.

The firm added backing from new investors DBS, Southeast Asia's largest bank, and EDBI, the corporate investment arm of Singapore's Economic Development Board.