Sentence examples for had once supported from inspiring English sources

An astonishing 24% of residents who had once supported the protests now oppose Occupy.

The people at the BBC who had once supported Mr Lloyd had died or retired or changed their minds.

In other words, these working-class voters, who had once supported progressive candidates, had shifted decisively to the right.

Mr. Hoffa, who supports Mr. Gephardt, noted that Dr. Dean had once supported the privatization of government jobs.

A region that had once supported some of the most productive fisheries in the world had succumbed to the might of a modern fleet bristling with new technology.

But he said he mistrusted the government, which he said was trying to revive an armed Armenian group it had once supported against Turkey.

Above me were smoke-blackened wooden beams, which must have once supported an external balcony.

Despite having once supported more background checks, the National Rifle Association threatened senators with electoral retribution if they backed "Obama's gun ban".

A brick archway now teetering in the woods may have once supported a carriageway to Bonaparte's house, according to Keri Sansevere, a Monmouth student from Middletown.

More than 11 million square km (4.2 million square miles) of present-day croplands receive enough rain and are warm enough to have once supported forests of one kind or another.

That sculpture reshapes the ship's worn beams into a mammoth pillar that pushes through the roof like one of the Pacific Northwest's great cedars — or, perhaps, like a pockmarked, barnacled pile that might have once supported the piers of this city's port.