Sentence examples for has backed the position from inspiring English sources

Yale has backed the position of Columbia and Brown, which are seeking to overturn a two-year-old labor board ruling that found that graduate students at private universities had the right to unionize.

Cleland is also an anti-net neutrality activist who has backed the position of the existing telecommunications players in testimony to a Congressional hearing; simply as with any analyst or lobbyist, he makes a case that is usually in line with the concerns or beliefs of the industry that backs him.

Only Japan has backed the American position.

Labour has backed the Conservative position and urged the prime minister to go further and boost the resources of internet pornography watchdogs.

Only 12 of the G20 countries which held a summit in Russia last week have backed the US position.

Condoleezza Rice, Mr. Bush's national security adviser, went so far today as to accuse France of trying to take NATO hostage and of threatening smaller countries that had backed the White House position on the war.

So far, the governors of New York and New Jersey have backed the authority's position, while Mr. Bloomberg and Sheldon Silver, the New York State Assembly speaker, have largely supported Mr. Silverstein.

Peers have backed the government's position on competition within the NHS in England, despite warnings from Labour that "privatisation" was being introduced at an "alarming pace".

Morrison rejected Baird's and state planning minister Rob Stokes' calls for negative gearing to be reconsidered but claimed Baird had backed the federal government's position on rent.

For all its talk of deficit reduction, President Bush's 2006 budget is a map of reckless economic policies and shows how they have backed the United States into a precarious position in the global financial markets.

She said that May was a "superb candidate" but said people had voted to leave so needed someone who had backed that position to lead the effort.