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Irish-Americans, no longer naive backers of the terrorist Irish Republican Army, have come to support compromise.
16,1999; Treasury memo, Office of Foreign Asset Control to DOS, Draft Cable on Meeting with Two of UBL's Brothers, May 19, 2000; Youssef M. Ibrahim,"Saudis Strip Citizenship from Backers of Militants," New York Times, Apr.
In 1610, navigator Henry Hudson thought he had located the fabled Northwest Passage for his London backers when, rounding the northern tip of Québec and heading south, he hoped, to China, he found himself locked in a vast bay on which he left his life and name.
The reason that Mr. Bush and his gubernatorial backers are loath to support a permanent ban is they tend to rely heavily on sales taxes to fund their state governments.
The United Nations' insistence on peace at any cost and the United States' insistence on containment and sanctions instead of confrontation left UNSCOM without any backers.