The Public Works of Art Program was the first national effort by the United States government to support artists.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

First there is the comparatively lowly kind which turns for support to the simple emotions and is of a definitely personal nature.

首先是相对低端的一种,只是支撑起简单的情感,这是一种明确的人类本性。

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But one of the first groups to support the administration was the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

In India,he became the first American president to openly support a permanent seat for that country on the United Nations Security Council.

VOA: special.2010.11.13

But that college was the first to officially agree to receive support under the Morrill Act.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

And ten years later, in two thousand eight, he was one of the first top Democrats to support a young senator seeking the party's nomination for president.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

In Ukraine,presidential contenders Tymoshenko and Yanukovych have been seeking the support of candidates they defeated in the first round, especially Serhiy Tihipko.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Mingo pointed out this would not be the first time the United States lost an Olympic bid and returned to win the support of IOC voters.

VOA: standard.2009.10.02

Congress spokesman Digvijay Singh laments the BJP's support of the first-time candidate.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

NATO has nearly 60,000 troops in Afghanistan, but few alliance members wholeheartedly support the deployment, with many questioning what the North Atlantic alliance is doing there in the first place.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

In an off-year election seen by some political pundits as a measure of support for President Barak Obama's popularity after his first year in office, the opposition Republicans have picked up the state house in two formerly Democratic states.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

He said the United Nations would provide all the necessary administrative, technical and logistical support to the Afghans, as it did for the first round, and would work with the Electoral Complaints Commission and the Independent Election Commission to make the second round transparent and credible.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

"I think that the proposal that the President made in Geneva to have Iran withdraw its enriched uranium, or a good portion of it, outside Iran is a positive first step in that direction and I support and appreciate the President's ongoing efforts to unite the international community to address the challenge of Iran's attempts to become a nuclear military power,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.30