Sentence examples for tested support for from inspiring English sources

The Greens said they were considering their options and key independent Tony Windsor said he might withdraw confidence from Labor and even back Tony Abbott if a new Labor leader tested support for the government in the parliament.

The IPPR argues that a new national salary insurance could offer working people who become unemployed up to 70% of their earnings in non-means tested support for up to six months (capped at £200 a week).

Following the announcement, a poll by YouGov tested support for the principle of cutting child benefit for households where someone earns over £44,000, the threshold for higher rate income tax.

YouGov tested support for a number of arguments: overall, those in support of the state were significantly more popular than those against - 64 per cent were convinced that "services like health and education should not be run as businesses" because "they depend on the values and ethos of the public good"; just 17 per cent dissented.

We tested support for the alternative split patterns at the base of the nematode phylogeny using the Shimodaira-Hasegawa log likelihood ratio test [ 32].

Last summer, Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law professor, held a series of houseparties around Massachusetts, to test support for a possible run for the United States Senate.

As a minimum, the opposition wants a referendum to test support for the government, a compromise recommended by Armenia's constitutional court.

Another calls for a referendum to test support for the government's plans, which it says should be withdrawn unless there is clear public support, which opinion polls suggest does not exist.

Last year the Freedom Forum, a think-tank that styles itself a "First Amendment Ombudsman", commissioned a poll to test support for it.

State Department officials who toured European capitals this month to test support for a resolution found very mixed reactions and little enthusiasm for joining the Americans at the annual Geneva meeting of the rights commission next month.

Two years later, in Gillibrand's first regular Senate election, Marc Cenedella, a wealthy Republican businessman, was testing support for a run, until Gillibrand's aides dug up an obscure blog under Cenedella's name, with posts about sex and drugs.