Colangelo's bid received strong support from one of his friends, Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf, and media reports say that then-acting Commissioner of Baseball and Milwaukee Brewers founder Bud Selig was also a strong supporter of Colangelo's bid.

Behaving " in a way that cost nothing ," Kantorek is a strong supporter of the war and encourages Bäumer and other students in his class to join the war effort.

Rose, along with his close friend and former teammate Mike Schmidt ( who is a strong supporter of Rose's reinstatement into baseball ), met with Selig in 2002, where Rose privately admitted to Selig ( two years before going public with his admission ) about betting on baseball.

Hitler was a strong supporter of this new strategy.

Beria, an ethnic Georgian, was the Presidium member for internal security affairs, and he was a strong supporter for minority rights and even supported reuniting East and West Germany to establish a strong, and neutral Germany between the capitalist and socialist nations.

The country is a strong supporter of international peacekeeping.

In 1974, the same year as the PDFLP changed its name into the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ), it acted as a strong supporter of the 1974 Ten Point Program.

In 1983, Dewar was promoted to the shadow frontbench as the Shadow Scottish Secretary, and was strong supporter of Scottish devolution.

Gerry surprised his friends by becoming a strong supporter of the new government.

This account was treated with general disbelief, although the American ambassador Henry Lane Wilson, a strong supporter of Huerta, reported to Washington that " I am disposed to accept the ( Huerta ) government's version of the affair and consider it a closed incident ".

The German government was a strong supporter of the enlargement of NATO.

Scientist Carl Sagan, for example, a strong supporter of the Galileo mission, said in 1989 that " there is nothing absurd about either side of this argument.

After United Fruit bought out Cuyamal, Sam Zemurray, a strong supporter of the Liberal Party, left the country and the Liberals were short on cash by the 1932 general election.

Furthermore, Hezbollah is a strong supporter of the ongoing Al-Aqsa Intifada.

He was a strong supporter of evangelicalism in the Church of England, and remained a friend of Dissenters as well as Anglicans.

On the international scene, Nehru was a champion of pacifism and a strong supporter of the United Nations.

During the World War I he was a strong supporter of the government's war policies.

It has remained a strong supporter of the State of Palestine, and has called for Israel to be taken to the International Criminal Court over the Gaza flotilla raid.

Maimonides was not known as a supporter of mysticism, although a strong intellectualistic type of mysticism has been discerned in his philosophy.

Fraser was a strong supporter of the United States and supported the boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

Moreover, most of his strong supporters are in the party and the party at large is his most loyal supporter.

North Melbourne were cellar dwellers for its first twenty-five years of VFL membership, but by the late 1940s had developed a strong list and significant supporter base.

Rodríguez is a strong supporter of digital film making, having been introduced to the practice by director George Lucas, who personally invited Rodríguez to use the digital cameras at Lucas ' headquarters.

The elements of elegance and color in Jannequin are strong French characteristics.

In the past, a defendant who refused to plead ( or " stood mute ") was subject to peine forte et dure ( Law French for " strong and hard punishment ").

After the fame surrounding the event, Carrel could not obtain a hospital appointment because of the strong and pervasive anticlericalism in the French University at the time.

French poet Paul Verlaine's " Chanson d ' automne " (" Autumn Song ") is likewise characterised by strong, painful feelings of sorrow.

Nevertheless, the Duke could think of no circumstances why the French would leave their strong positions and attack his army, even if Villeroi was first reinforced by substantial transfers from Marsin ’ s command.

During the pontificate of Pius IX a strong Ultramontane movement arose against the French Breviaries of 1680 and 1736.

In the latter, the battle was instrumental in forming the strong central monarchy that would characterize France until the first French Revolution.

From summer 2011, Operation Licorne, the French force, previously over 5, 000 strong, is roughly 700, and consists of Licorne headquarters, Battalion Licorne ( BATLIC ), seemingly made up of elements of the 2nd Marine Infantry Regiment and the Régiment d ' infanterie-chars de marine, and a helicopter detachment.

Influential French critic M. Henri Rochefort commented, " I am compelled to admit, not without some chagrin, that not one of our female artists … is strong enough to compete with the lady who has given us this year the portrait of Dr. Grier.

The language appeared to be in serious decline when the French government reversed its unsupportive stand and began some strong measures to save it.

Déjà vu, from French, literally " already seen ", is the phenomenon of having the strong sensation that an event or experience currently being experienced has been experienced in the past.

A recent study suggests that a strong El-Niño effect between 1789 – 93 caused poor crop yields in Europe, which in turn helped touch off the French Revolution.

* Métis fiddling, of central and western Canada featuring strong French Canadian influence, but with even more " crooked " tunes.

It is noted for having a particularly strong film industry, due in part to protections afforded by the French government.

Washington, warning and mistrustful of the influence of Illuminism that had been so strong in the French Revolution and its Reign of Terror, demanded the French government recall Genêt, and denounced the societies.

' Stoverij ' is a classic Flemish meat stew, preferably made with a generous adittion of brown ' Trappist ' ( strong abbey beer ) and served with French fries.

However, there was a strong faction at the English court, headed by Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, proposing that Mary and William, because of their anti-Catholic position, should be replaced by some Catholic French heir.

Now the French faced an increasingly strong Prussia.

The settlement of Yacanagua was burnt to the ground three times in its just over a century long existence as a Spanish settlement, first by French pirates in 1543, again on 27 May 1592 by a 110 strong landing party from a 4 ship English naval squadron led by Christopher Newport in his flagship Golden Dragon, who destroyed all 150 houses in the settlement, and finally by the Spanish themselves in 1605, for reasons set out below.

African culture thus remained strong among slaves to the end of French rule, in particular the folk-religion of Vodou, which commingled Catholic liturgy and ritual with the beliefs and practices of Guinea, Congo, and Dahomey.

The reformist but moderate document, accused by detractors of French Revolution sympathies, soon generated strong opposition coming from the Commonwealth's upper nobility conservative circles and Catherine II, determined to prevent a rebirth of the strong Commonwealth.

A strong friend of the French Revolution, Monroe tried to assure France that Washington's policy of strict neutrality did not favor Britain.

On the other hand, he was aware of the potential threat that France could be in that region and was prepared to go to war to prevent a strong French presence there.