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Example sentences for: backed

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They backed their demands with kidnappings and bombings throughout Jammu and Kashmir.
The Iraq crisis taught the world two lessons, according to the cover editorial: 1) Diplomacy must be backed with the threat of violence.
No, it was diplomacy backed up by force, Kondracke roars back.
While the conservative British newspaper the Daily Telegraph demanded the resignation of the Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam, on the grounds that she was "responsible for both these things," Irish newspapers generally backed her up.
2, Lind argues--unlike many conservatives--that the United States couldn't have fought Vietnam, in a really, really casualty-sparing way, with all-out attacks on the North, because China and the Soviet Union would have backed North Vietnam up.)