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He has the firm backing of Bryant, who has played nearly his entire career under Jackson.

Most of its people are united behind their soldiers and have the firm backing of America's Congress.

Mr. Yeltsin, apparently assured of the firm backing of security forces, moved quickly today to solidify his power.

Instead, senior Serbian officials have backed the idea of E.U.-mediated talks with Kosovo, which declared independence from Serbia in February 2008 with the firm backing of the United States and a majority of E.U. nations.

Having mustered the largest antigovernment demonstrations since the 1979 revolution, and defying an official ban, protesters began to sense the prospect — however slight at the moment — that the leadership's firm backing of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had wavered.

It also entered yesterday's voting with the firm backing of the eight Europeans who are one-third of the 24-member FIFA executive committee, whose main job is to award the World Cup.

On Saturday, a venture-capital firm backed out of a large investment it had been planning to make in the company.

But clearly his hope was to lead the firm back to the promised land of genuine profitability.

And he has the president's firm backing: "The real ruler of South Africa, the de facto ruler, is Thabo Mbeki," said Mr Mandela on a recent visit to London.

He said regular visits by Qasem Soleimani, the commander of Iran's elite Quds force, were evidence of their firm backing.

One of the best-known of these is Xoom, a San Francisco-based internet firm backed by some of the smartest money in Silicon Valley.