Sentence examples for support lies from inspiring English sources

The petitions reveal how the candidates have cobbled together networks of supporters for election-season grunt work, where each candidate's greatest support lies and where weak spots could surface.

Newman insists that co-producing care with the people who need support lies at the heart of the new model.

And in turn it means that the left's best chance of gaining support lies in the FARC giving up their guns once and for all.

Behind his support lies the belief by a number of Labour MPs that Woolas was right to be strident on immigration.

Contrary to assumptions that this is where the core of her support lies, she has had to pick her way very carefully through the sensitivities of conservatives within her community.

She and her staff, meanwhile, are rapidly rethinking how to run an election campaign in the rural areas, where the base of her support lies, without holding the big rallies and processions that are the political tradition here.

Its support lay largely with the Ovimbundu and Chokwe ethnic groups in central and southern Angola.

The party's support lay primarily in the industrial cities of the east, however.

"We commend and support lay initiatives to form circles of discernment to choose worthy candidates and even to run as candidates in order to bring the values of God's kingdom into the public discourse," the statement said.

Ms. Yellen told investigators that she balked at hiring Mr. Boone, a former district leader in predominantly black central Brooklyn, because she felt that her main support lay in other neighborhoods.

Reminded forcefully that her support lay in the nobility, she pruned back her ambitions and, Massie writes, "concentrated on what she believed to be Russian interests within her power to change: the expansion of her empire and the enrichment of its culture".