The Social Democrats (SPD), junior partners in Merkel's grand coalition, proved much more supportive of the chancellor, backing the vote with 175 yeses, and only four nos.
"Many of the Republican presidential candidates have not disguised the fact that they would be potentially supportive of putting back into the Middle East large-scale American combat troops," Murphy said.
There is plenty of evidence to suggest the public is still broadly supportive of the need to trim back hard on spending.
One crucial business organization, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), is generally supportive of the legislation, and strongly backs the corporate tax cuts.
Although formally supportive of the union, it has drawn backing from roughly equal numbers of unionists and nationalists, largely among middle-class liberals.
In general, Democrats have been supportive of the administration decision to take a back seat to the Europeans in negotiations, and many have expressed alarm whenever the conservative Republicans engaged in a more aggressive posture toward Iran.
Horst Fascher, 75, the unofficial Hamburg guardian of the Beatles in the '60s, says the town burghers were less than supportive of the renegade St. Pauli scene back then: "It was the young people alone who made St. Pauli what it is in the world - a melting pot of rock 'n' roll".
Stern picked up on his comments, saying: "I think the forces of darkness can be driven back – the sceptics and corporate lobbyists can be driven back". Others were supportive of the Prince's views.
Even as we have congratulated ourselves for becoming more "benevolent and supportive" of the mentally ill, we have steadily backed away from the sufferers themselves.
This data is highly supportive of the notion that the PXR feed-back loop is required for the robustness of steroid homeostasis in the case of steroids that are CYP3A substrates, and is logical with regard to cellular energetic position, as it is far more efficient to attenuate degradation of these steroids rather than increase de novo synthesis to compensate for increased degradation.
"We have chosen to be supportive of the arts regardless of whether it comes back directly to us," he said.
