Klein: Yes, superintendents with firm support from the mayor.
There is firm support from Amanda Boxer as Big Mama and from Hannah Stokely, who lends Big Daddy's prodigiously fertile daughter-in-law a steely attractiveness.
The new pipeline, the first major one to be built in New York City in decades, has drawn firm support from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and barely a shrug from environmental groups.
The American-sponsored Security Council resolution that was withdrawn yesterday had firm support from only four of the council's 15 members and was opposed by major European powers like France, Germany and Russia.
In the Alto Rhapsody, Jennifer Larmore's mezzo-soprano had a contraltolike timbre and gave the Goethe text the weight it demands, with firm support from the orchestra and the New York Concert Singers.
For all Mr Saleh's delaying tactics, he is likely to go because of the strength of the opposition against him at home and his lack of firm support from the US or the countries of the GCC.
He also has firm support from the Nats in his home province, centred on Johannesburg.Yet he is hamstrung by a constitutional clause that prevents members of Parliament from defecting to other parties; few will want to lose their jobs and salaries for a hazy, uncertain future under Mr Meyer.
But Colin Tierney lends the hero a vocal incisiveness that cuts like a razor through stubble, Susie Trayling hints at the fury and despair behind the seemingly patient Penelope and there is firm support from Simon Dutton as both the Europhobic prime minister and the one-eyed Cyclops, Lee Armstrong as the hot-headed Magnus and Danusia Samal as a Circe who plausibly turns men into animals.
Matthew Marsh captures the hero's bombastic innocence, Tanya Moodie as his journalist wife has the right inquisitiveness, and there is firm support from Danny Sapani as a deceptively friendly Hutu extremist, and Jude Akuwudike as the missing Tutsi doctor who becomes part of the play's retrospective action.
Mr Romney stood by his criticism of the administration as events unfolded on Wednesday, despite a lack of firm support from his Republican party.
