Thus, he supported funding to the state to assist the expansion of the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad.

Britain wished to deny Russia access to the " warm waters " and supported the integrity of the Ottoman Empire, although it also supported a limited expansion of Greece as a backup plan in case integrity of the Empire was no longer possible.

The Soviet Union supported a strong Vietnam to maintain a second front against China in case of hostilities and to prevent further Chinese expansion.

Up to 32K of such core RAM could be supported in one external expansion box.

Hubble supported the Doppler shift interpretation of the observed redshift that had been proposed earlier by Vesto Slipher, and that led to the theory of the metric expansion of space.

However, he was following the pressure that was being exerted on him from some members of his cabinet, including Palmerston, who in this rare instance was actually being supported by John Russell, both of whom were in favor of a more aggressive policy against perceived Russian expansion.

It was this tactic that supported the ultimate expansion to Spain.

The application of steam power to the industrial processes of printing supported a massive expansion of newspaper and popular book publishing, which reinforced rising literacy and demands for mass political participation.

Polk strongly supported expansion.

By the late 1990s, many personal computer motherboards supported a full range of audio, video, storage, and networking functions without the need for any expansion cards at all ; higher-end systems for 3D gaming and computer graphics typically retained only the graphics card as a separate component.

* Slots for expansion cards ( these interface to the system via the buses supported by the chipset )

President Lugo has supported Venezuela's entry into Mercosur however the Colorado Party's influence in Paraguay's Congress and Senate retards this expansion.

Martin supported colonial expansion.

However many Whig voters in the North thought that slavery was incompatible with a free-labor, free-market economy and supported the Wilmot Proviso that did not pass Congress but would have stopped the expansion of slavery.

" Laird supported the strategic arms talks leading to the SALT I agreements with the Soviet Union in 1972: a five-year moratorium against expansion of strategic nuclear delivery systems, and an antiballistic missile treaty limiting each side to two sites ( later cut to one ) for deployed ABM systems.

Additional instructions were supported via the Operate ( Opr ) instruction code, which decoded the constant operand as an extended zero-operand opcode, providing for almost endless and easy instruction set expansion as newer implementations of the transputer were introduced.

His Histories continue the account of the rise and expansion of Roman dominance, which he appears to have supported.

This expansion of the BID into Bloomsbury was supported by Camden Council.

Finally, there was the Synertek SYM-1 variant, which could be said to be a machine halfway between the KIM and the AIM ; it had the KIM's small display, and a simple membrane keyboard of 29 keys ( hex digits and control keys only ), but provided AIM-standard expansion interfaces and true RS-232 ( voltage level as well as current loop mode supported ).

It was named after North Carolina legislator, Willie Jones, who supported North Carolina's westward expansion over the Appalachian Mountains.

FAR reviewed and supported a report to have a more indepth study regarding the protection of fish species before the expansion of gypsum quarries within the river's watershed because of threats to river life, citing the use de-watering runoff from the quarries.

Especially in the United Kingdom ( UK ), these revolutions helped show the deficiencies of mercantilism, the doctrine of economic competition for finite wealth which had supported earlier imperial expansion.

Britain supported an Indian insurrection in the American Midwest, with the goal of creating an Indian state there that would block American expansion.

This released a surge of Japanese nationalism and resulted in the end of Shidehara / Hamaguchi diplomacy ( which supported peaceful economic expansion ).

The alternative majority in these issues was because the Social liberal Party ( Radikale Venstre ) supported the governing majority in economic policy issues, but was against certain NATO policies and voted with the left in these issues.

Members of the Libertarian Party have also supported the repeal of NAFTA, CAFTA, and similar trade agreements, as well as the United States ' exit from the United Nations, WTO, and NATO.

The LPF supported NATO, but was eurosceptic and saw the European Union as a " bureaucracy which barely interests its citizens, let alone inspires them.

The group states that during the 1940s, Freedom House supported the Marshall Plan and the establishment of NATO.

The early-1978 proposition by Moro of a DC-PSI cabinet supported also by the PCI was strongly opposed by both super-powers: the USA ( and its State Secretary Henry Kissinger in particular ) feared that the collaboration of an Italian government with the Communists might have allowed these later to gain information on strategic NATO military plans and installations, and pass them to Soviet agents.

* Norway supported the 1999 NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and later participated in the Kosovo Force.

In 2011, Brzezinski supported the NATO intervention against the forces of Muammar Gaddafi in the Libyan civil war, calling non-intervention " morally dubious " and " politically questionable ".

As a result, Slovakia under his rule became partially isolated from the West and the pace of EU and NATO accession negotiations was much slower than in the case of neighboring countries, although Mečiar supported both EU and NATO membership for his country and submitted Slovakia's applications to both organisations.

While Britons, French, and Americans favored Germany remaining a member of NATO, a majority of Poles supported neutrality for the reunified nation.

Kohl agreed, although less than 20 % of West Germans supported remaining within NATO ; he also wished to avoid a neutral Germany, as he believed that would destroy NATO, cause the United States and Canada to leave Europe, and Britain and France would form an alliance.

Although the British government and some governments of other members of the EU and NATO supported the US position, opinion polls show that in general their populations were against an attack, especially an attack without clear UN Security Council support.

Mattei visited Moscow in 1959, where he brokered an oil import deal with the Soviet Union in the middle of the Cold War over intense protests from NATO and the U. S. He also publicly supported independence movements against colonial powers, which allowed ENI to take advantage of postcolonial bitterness in places like Algeria.

The parliamentary party in the House of Representatives supported the NATO intervention, while the Senate parliamentary party was against the intervention.

The international reaction to the Yugoslav and Belarusian report on one hand, ( which supported the view that those killed were KLA fighters, not civilians as claimed by the Kosovo-Albanians and NATO ) and that of the EU expert team on the other, ( which did not find any evidence to suggest that the dead were combatants ) differed considerably, not least in the NATO-countries who were preparing for war against Yugoslavia.

On 30 August, the Secretary General of NATO announced the start of air strikes, supported by UNPROFOR rapid reaction force artillery attacks.

This looked set to be a reprise of her previous resignation as party spokesperson during the Gulf War of 1991 as a protest against the Labour Party's stance, although in 1999 she had publicly supported the NATO attack on Serbia.

Richard Holbrooke wrote that the US was opposed to Boutros-Ghali because of the latter's reluctance on approving NATO bombing in Bosnia ( something that Kofi Annan supported ).

After initial reservations, Johnson supported the new alliance and the program of military assistance for NATO and other U. S. allies instituted by the Mutual Defense Assistance Act ( 1949 ).

Though the party had previously opposed NATO, after reaching the government most party leaders supported keeping Spain inside the organisation.

González supported Spain remaining in NATO that same year in a referendum reversing his and the party's earlier anti-NATO position.

Although Taft fully supported the American war effort after Pearl Harbor and the declaration of war on Japan by the U. S. Congress on December 8, 1941, he continued to harbor a deep suspicion of American involvement in postwar military alliances with other nations, including NATO.

He supported the Truman Doctrine, reluctantly approved the Marshall Plan, and opposed NATO as unnecessary and provocative to the Soviets.