Ms. Jacobs went to Albany to meet with Republican legislators and received some qualified support for the idea, she said.
The B.C. Lumber Trade Council, a group representing producers in British Columbia, offered only qualified support for the plan.
The Aer Lingus board has already given its qualified support for IAG to seize control of the profitable airline.
This week, Democrats moved to blunt the Keystone attacks, with some party leaders showing qualified support for the project.
Also on Friday, the American Medical Association announced what it described as "qualified support" for the bill.
Despite some of his campaign rhetoric, Barack Obama is careful to express qualified support for free trade, even when stumping in the industrial Midwest.
The Democrats' sharp criticism indicated that the qualified support for the Bush proposal from some arms control experts had not allayed Democratic concerns about the plan.
Mr. Ferguson, for his part, has offered only qualified support for the job Mr. Bush has been doing as commander in chief.
While Mr Powell yesterday criticised the idea of a temporary increase in troop levels in Iraq, the incoming Senate majority leader offered qualified support for the move.
It is a measure of Hitchens's gift for triangulation that he could allow such revelations to exist alongside his qualified support for the "war on terror".
The calming words had an effect: several lawmakers offered qualified support for the agreement, leaving the White House optimistic that it would be approved.
