Supporters of this view believe that “ to a hypothetical outside reader, presents Christianity as enlightened, harmless, even beneficent .” Some believe that through this work, Luke intended to show the Roman Empire that the root of Christianity is within Judaism so that the Christians “ may receive the same freedom to practice their faith that the Roman Empire afforded the Jews .” Those who support the view of Luke ’ s work as political apology generally draw evidence from the facts that Christians are found innocent of committing any political crime ( Acts 25: 25 ; 19: 37 ; 19: 40 ) and that Roman officials ’ views towards Christians are generally positive.

Supporters of this view believe that the Roman Empire does not threaten the spread of the gospel of Jesus Christ because Luke “ simply recognizes its existence as a political reality, but he is clear that God is greater .” Throughout Acts, believers like Paul are being charged with spiritual crimes concerning “ teaching against Israel, the law, and the temple ” ( Acts 21: 21, 28 ; 23: 29 ; 24: 5 ; 25: 8, 19 ; 28: 17 ) or being a civil disturbance ( Acts 16: 20, 21: 38, 25: 8 ) rather than political charges.

Supporters of Derby County football club sing “ We all follow Derby, over land and sea ( and Leicester )”.

Supporters of the claim have pointed to Book IV as providing its strongest evidence, as when the narrator asks “ You mean to see we have been hadding a sound night ’ s sleep ?”, and later concludes that what has gone before has been “ a long, very long, a dark, very dark [...] scarce endurable [...] night .” Tindall refers to Book IV as " a chapter of resurrection and waking up ", and McHugh finds that the chapter contains " particular awareness of events going on offstage, connected with the arrival of dawn and the waking process which terminates the sleeping process of Wake.

Supporters of more “ traditional ” contemporary art saw, in the use of computers, a way to balance artistic deficiencies, some other consider that the art is not anymore in the achievement of the formal shape of the work but in the design of the rules that determine the evolution of the shape according to the quality of the dialogue.

Supporters of the “ nature ” side suggested that some people are born evil or with malicious tendencies.

Supporters of online skill-based game legalization and regulation include the Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative, which believes “ the government should regulate Internet gambling to ensure proper consumer protections are in place ”

The stories reflected an urban ennui and disillusion felt by those leading lives fueled by intense emotions and hedonistic self-indulgence. Georges Lemaître wrote in 1938: “ Beyond any doubt Morand is the most typical representative and interpreter of French literature today … His defects and merits, are they not the defects and merits of the world today …” Supporters and enthusiasts of Morand, Cocteau and André Breton appreciated his “ spiteful humour and surreal urban poetry, and aphoristic prose .” French critics praised his descriptive facility with words, leading them to categorize him as a “ modernist ,” and “ imagist .”

Supporters of the “ Save Our Homes ” Amendment contend that it allows long term residents with a fixed income to be able to afford to stay in their homes without being driven out by tax increases as their property value increases.

Supporters of tort reform in Congress regularly call for legislation to make Rule 11 stricter.

Supporters of the bill claim that more passive efforts to reform the UN have failed in the past, and it is now time to try a technique that shows the United States has " some teeth in reform.

Supporters of welfare reform also argued that AFDC fostered divorce and out-of-wedlock birth, and created a culture of dependency on government assistance.

Supporters of the Continuity IRA leadership claim that this resulted from an internal disagreement, which although brought to a conclusion, was followed by some people leaving the organisation anyway.

Supporters of this view claim that spontaneous order is superior to any order that does not allow individuals to make their own choices of what to produce, what to buy, what to sell, and at what prices, due to the number and complexity of the factors involved.

Supporters of the Judeo-Christian concept point to the Christian claim that Christianity is the heir to Biblical Judaism, and that the whole logic of Christianity as a religion is that it exists ( only ) as a religion built upon Judaism.

Supporters of the minimum wage claim it has these effects:

Supporters of molecular nanotechnology frequently claim that no significant errors have been discovered in Nanosystems since 1992.

Supporters claim that Clean Elections matching funds are so effective at leveling the playing field in Arizona that during the first full year of its implementation, disproportionate funding between candidates was a factor in only 2 % of the races.

Supporters of fox hunting claim that the number of foxes killed has increased since the ban, that hunts have reported an increase in membership and that around 320, 000 people ( their highest recorded number ) turned up to fox hunts on Boxing Day 2006.

Supporters of the caloric theory readily pointed to the symmetry of the Peltier-Seebeck effect to claim that heat and current were convertible, at least approximately, by a reversible process.

Supporters of this principle claim that this allows more universality and creates an incentive to find elegant, deceptively simple-looking problems which nevertheless require a certain level of ingenuity.

Supporters of polygonal rifling also claim higher velocities and greater accuracy.

Supporters of Trotsky sometimes claim that this ban was intended to be temporary.

Supporters claim that the forced integration has fostered more diversity and better learning environments.

Supporters of SPEWS often point to the claim that SPEWS " blocks " email from sites as a misconception.

Supporters of Trujillo claim that he reorganized both the state and the economy, and left vast infrastructure to the country.

Supporters of Speer, such as Fest, claim Speer felt personal guilt about the Nazi genocide, and that he spent his remaining years trying to justify both to himself and the public why he had let himself be deceived.

Supporters of the Argentine claim have used several different names, none of which are accepted by the islanders themselves –

Supporters of this sort of private freedom of association claim that the right to join a union incorporates a right not to join a union.

Supporters claim that he had to rule with an iron hand because the country was becoming unstable due to the civil war.

Supporters of Lindbergh's views would claim that Lindbergh did not support Adolf Hitler, and that pictures of him appearing to do the Nazi salute were actually pictures of him using the Bellamy salute.

Supporters of ESL programs claim they play an important role in the formation of peer networks and adjustment to school and society in their new homes.

Supporters of white separatism claim that describing white separatists as white supremacist is a smear.

Supporters claim it drives technological advances and contributes to material well-being.

Supporters contend that her popular votes were not counted because of gender discrimination and prejudice ; critics contend the votes were not counted because they had other legal defects besides gender.

Supporters, such as author John Hogue, who wrote a popular book titled The Last Pope about the claims, generally argue that, even if the author of the prophecies is uncertain, the predictions are still valid.

Supporters applaud the UK's responsible transfer of power ; critics cite low popular perceptions of legitimacy and claim that the independence constitutions maintained essentially colonial states.

Supporters of his reign argue that the producer was not solely to blame for the series ' decline in ratings and that the hierarchy at the BBC, funding issues, ratings calculation methods, the decline of in-house drama production, and the decision to schedule the series opposite the popular Coronation Street should be to blame.

Supporters of Jackson, a Senator from Tennessee at the time, who won a plurality of those popular votes which had been counted ( though not necessarily of all votes ) as well as the greatest number of electoral votes, denounced this as a " corrupt bargain.

Supporters of IRV have claimed that IRV can save money in reduced costs, but this has not always been the case.

Supporters ' trusts were commonly founded in response to a financial crisis which threatens the future of a team, as was the case at Chesterfield, Lincoln City and York City.

Supporters, however, argued that this was not the case since the proposal explained in several locations ( pages 11, 14, 24, 25 ) that there should be no extension to the existing scope of patentability for computer programs and that pure business methods implemented in software would not be patentable.

Supporters and opponents of the democratic peace agree that this is bad use of statistics, even if a plausible case can be made for the correction ( Bremer 1992 ), ( Gleditsch 1995 ), ( Gowa 1999 ).

Supporters of the Branch Avenue route then took the case to the U. S. District Court.

The Supporters are the creatures on either side of the shield and in this case they are Kiwi birds ( Apteryx ) in their natural colours.

The Compartment which is what the Supporters stand on is not always part of the Blazon but in this case it is two New Zealand Ferns in their natural colour.

Supporters of the metro point out that as the population of the Helsinki area keeps increasing through domestic and international migration, building more housing is necessary in any case.