Despite his Catholic background, Kennedy also became a strong advocate of abortion rights and later, a supporter of same-sex marriage.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

Virginia Democratic Congressman Jim Moran of Virginia was initially a supporter of the war in Afghanistan,but no more.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

"The idea that every Sunni was a supporter - every Sunni insurgent was a supporter of al-Qaida - was simply not true, simply not true.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

Critics say it's a stretch to describe a man who had 11 wives, one of whom was a young girl, as a supporter of women's rights.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

She has since become a fierce supporter of literary freedom and is part of several organizations that fight censorship.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

Her mother, Katharine Martha Houghton, was a great supporter of women's rights issues including the right to birth control.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

Mary Travers was a strong supporter of the civil rights and anti-war movements of the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

On April fourteenth,eighty sixty-five, a Southern supporter shot President Lincoln in Ford's Theater in Washington.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

Mrs. Gardner was a celebrated arts and community supporter in her hometown of Boston, Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

He became a businessman, a political activist and a strong supporter of civil rights.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

Tyler named a new cabinet. And there was not one Clay supporter in it.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

A Confederate supporter shot and killed a young officer from the North.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

Copland was a strong supporter of liberal ideas.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

A Goran supporter, parliament member Sirwan Zahawi, said his bloc "could win up to 35 seats" in the 111 seat Kurdish parliament.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

Julie Heckman is a Tea Party supporter from Maryland who attended the rally against the Democrat's health-care bill.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

U.S.Ambassador Timothy Roemer, issued a statement offering his condolences and hailing the chief minister " as a strong supporter of U.S.-India friendship."

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

She says it's especially disappointing since the UK has been such a strong supporter of Rwanda.

VOA: standard.2009.04.10

Last week an MDC supporter was killed for allegedly singing a pro-Tsvangirai song in a bar.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

MDC supporters and activists are arrested on minor charges, while not a single ZANU-PF supporter has been arrested, despite the 150 murders of MDC supporters last year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

Mr.Netanyahu has been a strong supporter of Jewish settlement in all of the biblical land of Israel, but he imposed the construction freeze last month after urging from the United States, which sees the settlements as an obstacle to peace.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

"Some of you legitimately may have been surprised that such a strong supporter of Israel,for the last 37 years and beyond, but 37 years as an elected official, how I can speak out so strongly, given the ties that I share as well as my country shares with Israel.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11