Don't treat this as punishment, but as a joint and supportive effort to achieve a goal.
The A.M.A. is very supportive of efforts to improve quality of care and has been a leader in developing clinical performance measures, anchored in evidence.
The president, he said, was supportive of efforts to oust Mr. Hussein, but did not mention war as a means of doing so.
Both said they were grateful that both The Washington Post and McClatchy, which reported his disappearance on Thursday, had been very supportive of efforts to locate him.
The public and large parts of industry remain strongly supportive of efforts to tackle climate change, despite the best efforts of some in the media to muddy the waters of scientific evidence.
To help finance his proposals, Mr. Baucus would require drug makers, which have been generally supportive of efforts to expand coverage and rein in health costs, to pay fees of $2.3 billion a year, starting in 2010.
Yesterday, John E. McArdle, chief spokesman for the majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, said that while Mr. Bruno had not had a chance to review Mr. Bloomberg's proposal, "we have not been supportive of efforts to expand regulation in the city".
The Obama administration has been supportive of efforts to raise the minimum wage at the local level, the US labor secretary Tom Perez told the Guardian in an interview last year.
"We are supportive of efforts to encourage the development of advanced fossil fuel technologies, but we are skeptical that federal loan guarantees are the best way" to bring this about.
To be clear, she was strongly supportive of efforts to help those from poorer families.
