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Irish-Americans, no longer naive backers of the terrorist Irish Republican Army, have come to support compromise.
The worst of these episodes came in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1713) between the backers of Philip of Anjou, the 17-year-old grandson of Louis XIV of France, and the Hapsburg claimant, Archduke Charles of Austria.
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.
Hamon said the proposed bill has attracted a number of co-sponsors, and Legal Aid backers are hoping to get it passed in the upcoming legislative session.
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.