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Example sentences for: backing

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And the Times , in its lead story reporting a doubling of NATO's land force in Macedonia, said that British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook has "secured America's backing for the forces to enter Kosovo without Belgrade's approval as soon as the Serb army begins withdrawing."
The NYT Bosnia lead emphasizes the risks being taken by the current NATO policy of backing one Bosnian Serb faction against another, and reports local sentiment that Radovan Karadzic will probably respond with intimidation and violence.
The small line of debris that refuses to be swept onto the dust pan and keeps backing a person across the room until he finally decides to give up and sweep it under the rug.
The government, if it wanted to, could sell its backing to private borrowers like Fannie Mae.
His only message had been that "whatever he does, [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu will always have the backing of the Congress of the United States."