Mr Brown's self-styled supporters, many of them restless and disaffected, some of them fundamentally hostile to New Labour, have caused plenty of trouble in the past between the prime minister and the chancellor and yearn to see the back of Mr Blair.
He made the calculation, as did Hillary Clinton and countless other self-styled supporters of gay rights, that taking a position that is consistent would do him more political damage than good.
America is again confronting the spectre of domestic Islamic extremism after two gunmen, at least one of them a self-styled supporter of Isis, were shot and killed after attacking an exhibition of cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed.
Supporters groups, some styled on soccer's Ultras movement, are a big chunk of the core energy driving atmosphere at MLS games.
Zoe is a great supporter of theirs, and styled their last show.
Styled James III of England and James VIII of Scotland by his supporters, he made several halfhearted efforts to gain his crown.
In Scotland, noisy bands of hunt supporters protesting against the law, clad in orange boiler suits, styled themselves "Rural Rebels".
As the sun set over the palm trees of the French Riviera and the millionaires' yachts bobbed in the harbour, crowds of flag-waving supporters were squeezed into a tiny hall in Antibes, cheering a young woman styled by her admirers as a Joan of Arc of the far right.
With his supporters saying he has charisma similar to that of the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, Mr Malema has styled himself as a revolutionary, wearing a red beret and carrying the title commander-in-chief of the Economic Freedom Fighters EFFF) party as he campaigns for votes.
She styled Serena's hair.
