Leading climate scientists have given their support to a Freedom of Information request seeking to disclose who is funding the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a London-based climate sceptic thinktank chaired by the former Conservative chancellor Lord Lawson.
Gov. George E. Pataki and Joseph L. Bruno, the Senate majority leader, had already given their support for more mayoral control of the system.
Eight medal-winning Olympians have agreed to give their support to the cohort of British athletes preparing to take part in next summer's Games in Rio, and to act as their cheerleaders in a bid to drum up the levels of public support seen at London 2012.
There are settlement leaders who are willing to perform their outrage and unashamedly give their support to all kinds of human-rights violations — always sure to put air quotes around "human rights" — but the more typical, and powerful, settler leader now is someone like Dani Dayan, the chairman of the Yesha Council, the settlers' main political organization.
Executives also gave their support to the continued enforcement of the new rule prohibiting blindside checks to the head.
Three leading environmentalists who broke ranks to give their support to a new generation of nuclear plants have now urged the government to scrap plans for Hinkley Point C. The call comes as George Osborne and Amber Rudd, the secretary of state for energy and climate change, head off to China, where they will discuss Beijing's proposed investment in the new nuclear plant in Somerset.
They gave their support to Sayyid Ali al-Mirghani of the Khatmiyyah sect as a counterpoise to Sayyid Abd al-Rahman.
And deception is indeed a major threat to the cause of good in the world: manipulative lies can (mis)lead good people to give their support, in the realm of power, to a force that brings out their worst, and that opposes the values that, in other realms, they hold dear.
For instance, when the local roadhouse recently held a fundraiser for a developmentally disabled infant, the entire community showed up to give their support, including over 100 members of the local motorcycle gang.
