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.

Francisco Pizarro never had the intention of giving up Cuzco to Almagro, and only wanted to win time for himself to organize an army strong enough to defeat Almagro's troops.

San Francisco Bay is a mecca for sailors ( boats, as well as windsurfing and kitesurfing ), due to consistent strong westerly / northwesterly thermally-generated winds ( Beaufort force 6 ( 15-25 knots ) is common on summer afternoons ) and protection from large open ocean swells.

The group's performing skills improved rapidly and they soon gained a strong following in and around San Francisco, aided by reviews from veteran music journalist Ralph J. Gleason, the jazz critic of the San Francisco Chronicle who, after seeing them at the Matrix in late 1965, proclaimed them " one of the best bands ever.

The Vichy regime in France, Francisco Franco's regime, the Salazar regime in Portugal, and Maurras's Action Française political movements are examples of such traditional reactionary feelings, in favour of authoritarian regimes with strong unelected leaders and with Catholicism as a state religion.

Both stages are based in sunny coastal California locales, with steep hills and other strong similarities to San Francisco.

The film, entitled L ' Age d ' Or, was begun as a second collaboration with Dalí, but, while working on the scenario, the two had a falling out ; Buñuel, who at the time had strong leftist sympathies, desired a deliberate undermining of all bourgeois institutions, while Dalí, who eventually supported the Spanish fascist dictator Francisco Franco and various figures of the European aristocracy, wanted merely to cause a scandal through the use of various scatological and anti-Catholic images.

In 1981, California Governor Jerry Brown, who had established a reputation as a strong environmentalist, was confronted with a serious medfly infestation in the San Francisco Bay Area.

From 1999, when Marceau returned with his classic solo show to New York and San Francisco after 15-year absences for critically acclaimed sold-out runs, his career in America enjoyed a remarkable renaissance with strong appeal to a third generation.

The San Francisco Chronicle claimed that Davis's attacks on Issa's " checkered past " and polls showing strong Republican support for Schwarzenegger caused Issa to withdraw.

Bratt has for years been a strong supporter and board member of San Francisco Bay Area's Friendship House Association of American Indians and Native American Health Center.

After the war ended, Fraser devoted much attention to the formation of the United Nations at the San Francisco conference ( UNCIO ) in 1945 ; this was the apogee of Fraser ’ s career Noteworthy for his strong opposition to vesting powers of veto in permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, he often spoke unofficially for smaller states.

He was a strong supporter of Honduran liberal Francisco Morazán.

This San Francisco band had strong elements of spacey synthesizer driven progressive.

The economical and social crisis of Spain in the early 20th century, and the Spanish Civil War with Francisco Franco's dictatorship which followed, had negative effects on Soria and its neighborhood, which became depopulated due to strong emigration.

Clifford James Geertz ( August 23, 1926, San Francisco – October 30, 2006, Philadelphia ) was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology, and who was considered " for three decades ... the single most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States.

Túpac Amaru II was born José Gabriel Condorcanqui in Surimana, Tungasuca, in the province of Cuzco, and received a Jesuit education at the San Francisco de Borja School, although he maintained a strong identification with the indigenous population.

Although " Sweet Young Thing " gained strong airplay around San Francisco during the Spring of 1967, and has since been covered by the Australian band JET, it was poorly promoted by Uptown Records.

Among the most important monuments are the Castle ( Alcazaba ), the church of Santiago, the church of Santa María la Mayor, the church of San Francisco, the Church of San Martín, the Plaza Mayor, and beautiful palaces like the palace of the Marquis of the Conquest, the palace of the Orellana-Pizarro family, the palace of the Duques de San Carlos, Marquesado de Piedras Albas, the house of the strong Altamirano, Palace Chaves ( Luis Chaves Old ), and of course the walled old town.

In the United States: Long Island, Bar Harbor on Mount Desert Island, and other affluent East Coast enclaves ; the San Francisco Bay Area, early Beverly Hills, California, Montecito, California and other affluent West Coast enclaves ; all had strong traditions of large agricultural, grazing, and productive estates modeled on those in Europe.

Rescue Muni is also known as a strong advocate for the construction of a new Transbay Terminal in downtown San Francisco, and the extension of Caltrain to the new structure.

In late 1946, a portion of the estate was proposed as the site of the UN Headquarters, when New York City was trying to beat off strong opposition from Philadelphia and San Francisco and secure the organization.

Many other even more explicitly provocative comics ( usually with a far left of center point of view ) appear in various free weekly newspapers such as the San Francisco Bay Guardian and the East Bay Express ( in the San Francisco Bay Area ) and the Village Voice ( in New York City ), and similarly in many other locals, often those with a strong university or college presence.

In 1975 the band returned to the states to tour supporting the Kimono & Propaganda albums which had gained strong cult attention in New York, Cleveland, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles primarily from FM radio play and a national TV appearance on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert.