Mexico has very vocally backed France's demand for the two-stage approach.

The conference backed Janet's demand for more homes for battered wives.

The Europeans have offered to come down one-third to 9.2 percent, but Washington is backing the industry's demand.

Ethan's mother Isabel Mascarenhas (Nafisa Ali) also supports him in his petition, backing her son's demand.

They back their demand not with any law but with the knowledge that they can make life extremely difficult for anyone who disobeys.

On the other hand, the statement is significant in that China is backing the agency's demand that its monitors be allowed to complete their work.

His administration has backed Argentina's demand for talks on sovereignty, and has taken to calling the islands by their Argentine name, Las Malvinas.

Since the beginning of the dispute, the United States and other outsiders have backed the United Nations' demand for a plebiscite.

The United States has backed Japan's demand to become a Security Council member.

The committee has unanimously backed my demand that all violence against children, including corporal punishment in the home, must be prohibited by Community legislation.