From 1991 to 1993, the unions expanded their cooperative efforts into the legislative field, jointly endorsing candidates and winning passage of a number of important pieces of legislation.

They hugged in public and jointly endorsed the Alianza platform, which pledged to crack down on corruption, take political influence out of the judicial system, and funnel more Government funds into education, job training and credits for small business.

Three years later, in 1999, the Council of Ontario Universities (COU) and the Association of Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology of Ontario (ACAATO) jointly endorsed a set of principles governing mobility and transfer that has become known as the Port Hope Accord.

Observers from the African Union, La Francophonie, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, African Arab Maghreb Union, and the Community of Sahel-Saharan States jointly endorsed the conduct of the election as "satisfactory".

Robert Teeter, Mr. Bush's campaign chairman, said in an interview on Friday that in September 1992, Mr. Gingrich tried to organize an event on the steps of the Capitol in which Mr. Bush and Republican Congressional candidates would jointly endorse a national agenda.

Still, Mr. Ganim gave no indication of bowing out, even after the state's two Senators, Christopher J. Dodd and Joseph I. Lieberman, both Democrats, jointly endorsed Mrs. Kennelly.

They jointly endorsed Mr. Fisher, a move meant to help him open up a definitive lead over Ms. Hafer, who had refused party leaders' pleas to quit the contest.

Carvalho and Hawaii County Mayor Billy Kenoi jointly endorsed former Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann in the 2010 Democratic gubernatorial primary over Hannemann's challenger, former U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie.

Although the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, which represents the interests of the pro-Taiwanese faction, and the Chinese United Associations of New York, which is pro-China, jointly endorsed the ban in a rare show of unity, many Chinese business owners, lion dancers and schoolchildren are in an uproar over the Mayor's decision.