Sentence examples for have once supported from inspiring English sources

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

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.

Yesterday, at a meeting here of the American Geophysical Union, mission controllers announced that Spirit, in an accidental encounter with a rock beneath its wheels, may have stumbled upon the best evidence yet that the Red Planet could have once supported microbial life.

Politwoops is a useful tool for journalists and citizens alike as it holds the politicians accountable for what they say, and highlights the times when they're trying to walk back from earlier positions – whether because they've changed their mind or don't want to be shown to have once supported an unpopular position.

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.

He noted that Mr. Romney had once supported an immigration bill similar to the one he opposed as a presidential candidate.