Sentence examples for sound supportive from inspiring English sources

Back in the old days, Mr Obama used to sound supportive of the District of Columbia's ban on handguns.

Asked why he did not sound supportive of her, Mr. Rove said bluntly that "I'm for the Republican.

It was meant to sound supportive – "we don't question him at all, that's why it's not necessary to send a signal [by opening talks]" – but came across as deliberately noncommittal.

The Fair Internship Initiative has already questioned many of the new candidates about their position on paid internships and while most sound supportive, only a handful have made meaningful commitments to change.

France sounded supportive of a rejection.

However, when asked about Hogan-Howe, the prime minister sounded supportive.

Whenever he said something awful, I mumbled in a way that sounded supportive.

At first, he sounded supportive: "If you ask people in Sariyer" — the municipality that includes Garipçe — "eighty per cent are for the bridge," he said.

At first, he sounded supportive: "If you ask people in Sariyer"—the municipality that includes Garipçe—"eighty per cent are for the bridge," he said.

"In 1993, interest groups sounded supportive and made nice at the outset, but then turned and used all their resources to oppose reform," said Judith Feder, a Clinton administration official who is now a senior fellow at the liberal-leaning Center for American Progress.

"We are fully committed to your realizing your vision at a price point that acknowledges that this hasn't been tried before" sounds supportive, where the same message shorn of ornament — "We'll make your iffy project but only dirt cheap" — might rankle.