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The visibility of a high-profile leader corresponded with the size of his or her support base.
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"They need this consistent support base to succeed, or else they backslide, " she said.
They say Richard had a strong support base in York and reportedly wanted to be buried there.
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Peter Beck, from the International Crisis Group, says Kim may need to strengthen his support base at home.
"That gives you a dynamic relationship with the community and the capability to develop a support base, " Mr. Monroe says.
None of the current candidates have a major popular support base and most of them are largely unknown outside the capital.
But many of Mr Garotinho's and Mr Gomes's voters are quite conservative especially the evangelical Christians who are Mr Garotinho's main support base.
The absence of a parliamentary support base clearly hampered him during the first year of his term, which began in February 2003.
Its support base may only be tens of thousands in a country of 64m people but, unchecked, that is enough to wreak havoc.
Bush has a huge support base in Texas, but he would surprise few if in 1999 he announced a run for the presidency.
His support base lies elsewhere: in neighbouring Kufa, and in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City (named after his late father, a top cleric).
If Olmert loses that support base, his government could easily fall.
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Time is now of the essence, even for the Taliban as their own public support base would not relish the thought of war continuing beyond 2014.
Based at Brewery Field in Bridgend, they may only be in their second season but they boast a strong infrastructure, substantial financial resources and blossoming support base.
And though farmers nowadays make up a small percentage of the population, even in France, they are a crucial part of Mr Chirac's Gaullist party's support base.
Another one-time front-runner is the fiscally-conservative finance minister Yoshihiko Noda, 54, but he is hindered by the fact he shares a factional support base with Mr Maehara.
The 350, 000 Israeli residents of Judea and Samaria and their massive support base inside the Likud, and indeed throughout Israeli society, suffered a tremendous defeat this week.
But this strategy may backfire if he is challenged by the former army commander, who is hugely popular among the president's main support base, the Sinhalese Buddhist majority.
In turn, Prince Vajiralongkorn is itching to meddle in the annual autumnal shuffle of senior jobs in the armed forces and extend his support base, says a senior Asian diplomat.
He could cite the need for better relations with the West to legitimise the financial interests of the Russian elite, and the inefficiency of the security services as a support base.
But a large support base did stick by him.
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Saddiq Zaman Khattack, a candidate for the Awami National Party, a secular party with a strong ethnic Pashtun support base, was shot and killed as he returned from Friday prayers, police said.
Defections haven't yet penetrated the core of Mr. Assad's support base in the military and security services, where the top cadre of officials largely hail, like the president, from the Alawite sect.
The support base for this revolution was not the capital, Tbilisi, the traditional driver of Georgian politics, but villages and small towns, where family structures and individualism were stronger and Soviet rule was weaker.
As a political outsider, he threatens the established support base of the main parties especially the Social Christians, with 25 seats and the presidency of the chamber and none of them wants to see his government succeed.
By claiming that he is only pressuring Israel to enable a peaceful "two-state solution, " Obama assumes that he will be able to maintain his support base among American Jews who will overlook the underlying hostility his "pro-peace" stance papers over.
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