Sentence examples for point of supporting from inspiring English sources

"What would be the point of supporting popular causes?" he asks.

And the large industrial organizations did not see the point of supporting research in a field, which was outside their own technology base.

Saudis have relied on the United States, Arab nationalism and Sunni identity to slow Iran's rise, even to the point of supporting radical Sunni forces.

Not to the point of supporting United Nations Security Council action against Burmese barbarity — the official view is that "pressure would not serve any purpose" — but to the point of gestures suggestive of some discomfort.

The football season is upon us once more and one is again forced to ask the question: what on earth is the point of supporting Manchester United, aside from the boring certitude that they will win everything?

In contrast to Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who made a near sport of withholding information and defending his position in court (often unsuccessfully), Mr. Bloomberg has made a point of supporting the free flow of information.

Has society reached a turning point in terms of supporting female leadership?

The proposed design of the pendulum has a fixed bottom rotation or point of support as opposed to the usual vertically or horizontally moving point of support to stabilize the pendulum, allowing for small form factor desktop design of an inverted pendulum experiment.

Another point of support from the research was that "we have a lot of repeat purchase," he added, borrowing a term from product marketing, which buttressed a belief that many tourists speaking for the hidden cameras would offer positive comments.

This is a striking point of support for Gintis's optimism about the reach of game theory.

On election day, they received 22 percent of the popular vote, so at best it added an extra percentage point of support.