Sentence examples for motion in support of from inspiring English sources

An apparently harmless motion in support of local cinemas has aroused the wrath of the Odeon group.

Nearly 50 MPs have already signed a parliamentary early day motion in support of closing the planning loopholes.

"We had over 10,000 events, and MPs tabled an early day motion in support of our campaign".

We already have broad support and on Wednesday, Liverpool city council became the first council to pass a motion in support of the campaign.

Our towns against tax dodging campaign encouraged the public and local businesses to pressure local councils to pass a motion in support of the campaign.

"I was devastated, totally shocked," by Mr. Ashcroft's announcement, Mr. Romney said today at the office of Compassion in Dying, where he went to sign a legal motion in support of the state's lawsuit.

Several councils around the country, including Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham and Portsmouth, have passed motions in support of introducing exclusion areas and could do so if the Ealing zone is upheld.

We persuaded Barclays to stop marketing the benefits of tax havens to companies investing in Africa, we saw a huge supporter response to the Vedanta campaign and met with its chief executive, and 50 local councils passed motions in support of a tax-dodging bill.

On the other side, at least 16 states, several cities, various power companies and other groups have filed legal motions in support of the Clean Power Plan, and it has wide support among environmental groups and many Democrats.

The UK government's motion was in support of military action in Syria if it was backed up by evidence from United Nations weapons inspectors, who are investigating the attack.

Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn signed a parliamentary motion in 2010 in support of homeopathy, it has emerged.