Supporters included the former MP Martin Bell who in his book, The Truth that Sticks ( 2007 ) wrote " Of great value was Derek Cattell, formerly on the executive of Sedgefield Labour Party.

Those present at the meeting included investment bank Goldman Sachs ' chief economist and former Manchester United director Jim O ' Neill and lawyer Mark Rawlinson, a partner at law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, as well as Duncan Drasdo, the chief executive of the Manchester United Supporters ' Trust, and Keith Harris, Executive Chairman of Seymour Pierce.

Supporters of the Sandinistas ... have argued that Nicaragua has a good record of human rights compared with other Central American countries and have compared Nicaragua with other countries at war.

Supporters of the " Palestinian viewpoint " focus on the phrase in the resolution's preamble emphasizing the " inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war ", and note that the French version called for withdrawal from " des territoires occupés "-" the territories occupied ".

Supporters of Chinese reunification believe it would eliminate the competing factions in an unresolved civil war and re-unify China under a single national government.

Supporters of Mao point out that the large number of deaths during the period of consolidation of power after victory in the Chinese Civil War paled in comparison to the number of deaths caused by famine, anarchy, war, and foreign invasion in the years before the Communists took power.

Supporters of a Palestinian right of return argue that refugees, displaced persons, and all their descendants have a right to return and a right to property they left or were forced to leave in what is now Israel and the Palestinian territories ( formerly part of the British Mandate of Palestine ) as result of the 1948 Arab – Israeli War and the 1967 Six-Day war.

Supporters of the campaign have argued that the action brought to an end the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo's Albanian population, and that the bombing campaign hastened ( or caused ) the downfall of Slobodan Milošević's government, which they saw as responsible for the international isolation of Yugoslavia, many war crimes, and gross human rights violations.

Supporters viewed the programme as a way to keep Saddam Hussein in check without resorting to war.

Supporters of the war, suspicious of radicals, pacifists, and the foreign-born, acted quickly to stifle dissent.

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

Supporters of realism in international relations in general argue that not democracy or its absence, but considerations and evaluations of power, cause peace or war.

Supporters of the war have argued that it was justified, as Iraq harbored Islamic terrorist groups that share a common hatred of Western countries.

Supporters of the Iraq war tend to agree with the view that Iraq regained its sovereignty in June 2004, and that the occupation has thus ended.

Supporters argued that these actions did not constitute a violation of the " laws or customs of war " clause in the Nuremberg Principles, the rules governing what constituted war crimes that occurred during the war, since it was legal in the German military and that Allied armies had similar provisions in their military codes at the time.

It cost £ 7, 000 ( with £ 1, 500 donated by the QPR Supporters Club ) and was opened by the Rt Hon Herbert Morrison, the leading Labour MP and future war time Home Secretary, at the match vs Crystal Palace on 29 October.

Supporters of this viewpoint argue that the major European powers felt forced to go to war by feelings of insecurity over the alliances of their neighbors, despite not actually desiring the war.

Supporters of the decision noted that the Red Ensign was the flag under which the Canadian Army had fought and that numerous other Canadian war memorials and historical sites fly relevant historical flags.

Supporters of this theory point out that this move was forced because the Grand Duchy of Lithuania lacked the resources to fight a two front war, and the Polish Crown didn't help either with financing or with military forces.

In 2007 an Oakland Tribune headline described Move America Forward as " Supporters of the Iraq War " and " a group that supports the war.

* August 20, 2005: Supporters of the Iraq war, led by Crawford small business owner Bill Johnson, set up a small opposing camp, named " Fort Qualls ," behind his " Yellow Rose " gift shop in Crawford, Texas.

Supporters and critics of nuclear power agreed that the promotional and regulatory duties of the AEC should be assigned to different agencies.

Supporters of the messianist camp, led by Leib Groner argue that the will was signed but that interested parties destroyed or hid the signed copy to gain power.

Supporters of private financing systems believe that, in addition to avoiding government limitations on speech, private financing fosters civic involvement, ensures that a diversity of views are heard, and prevents government from tilting the scales to favor those in power or with political influence.

Supporters of the project point to the beneficial effects of more water for the drought-plagued region and an increase in hydroelectric power while opponents argue that the subsequent displacement of thousands of villagers around the river is insupportable.

Supporters continue to advocate the establishment of a global federalist system of strengthened and accountable global institutions with plenary constitutional power and a division of international authority among separate global agencies.

Supporters of this view, such as Phil Zimmermann, argue that anti-surveillance technologies help to equalize power between governments and their people, which is the actual reason for banning them.

Supporters of Sir Syed contend that his political vision gave an independent political expression to the Muslim community, which aided its goal of securing political power in India.

Supporters contend that the plan would effectively tax wealth, increase purchasing power, and decrease tax burdens by broadening the tax base.

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.

He is also secretary to Supporters of Nuclear Energy ( SONE ), a group of individuals who seek to promote nuclear power and he holds the position of Vice President of Country Guardian, an anti-wind energy campaign group.

Supporters of the decision note that CFMB was due to lose its transmitter site and had already bought the old CJMS site, and that the only other application to use the 1280 kHz frequency was for a station with only 10, 000 watts of power.

Supporters of the bills, largely conservative Republicans, claim that the legislation re-asserts the original meaning of the First Amendment and the principle of limited government power over rights of conscience and religion.

Supporters of Brown have suggested that the term should be expunged from history textbooks and lectures on medieval history entirely.

Supporters of Gomes and his party, PAIGC, reacted to the move by demonstrating in the capital, Bissau ; Antonio Indjai, the Deputy Chief of Staff, then warned that he would have Gomes killed if the protests continued.

The online List of Supporters reached 5, 500 on what would have been Parsons ' 65th birthday and continues to gather signatures, as well as at G3P's annual Gram InterNational concerts and other tribute events each year.

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

Supporters, like George Gilder in his book, Telecosm, note that " Milken was a key source of the organizational changes that have impelled economic growth over the last twenty years.

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

Supporters of embryonic stem cell research argue that such research should be pursued because the resultant treatments could have significant medical potential.

Supporters of design suggest that natural objects and man-made objects have similar properties, therefore both must be designed.

Supporters of the " free-wing wing " have been labelled as " Thatcherites ".

Supporters of Nordicism and Germanism consider Nordic people ( Scandinavians, Germans, English, Balts and Dutch ) to be superior, shunning those of Southern and Eastern Europe ( who may have darker features and different cultures ), including mostly Jews, Poles, Celts ( Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Basque ), Gypsies, Spanish, Portuguese, Italians, white Latin Americans, Lusophone, white Africans, and Russians, along with anyone whose ethnic heritage is not European.

Supporters of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima in the 11th Panchen Lama controversy have called him a " political prisoner ", despite the fact that he is not accused of a political offense.

Supporters also argued that SDI could trigger a new arms race, forcing the USSR to spend an increasing proportion of GDP on defense — something which has been claimed to have been an indirect cause of the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union.

Supporters of UGBs point out that Portland's housing market is still more affordable than other West Coast cities, and housing prices have increased across the country.

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 convicted Israeli whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu and Nobel prize winning Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo have compared them to Ossietzky.

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 the Libyan convicted of the Lockerbie bombing have suggested the PFLP-GC was in fact responsible

Supporters of the Reagan administration have pointed out that the US had been the largest provider of aid to Nicaragua, and twice offered to resume aid if the Sandinstas agreed to stop arming communist insurgents in El Salvador.

Supporters of such movements have criticized the report on the grounds of the respect of religious freedom.

Supporters of economic rationalism have presented two kinds of responses to criticisms such as those quoted above.