Republican party leaders did not want Jackson to take an open endorsement from the Klan for fear it would hurt some parts of the ticket.

Suharto's open endorsement of a broad-based Moslem organization constituted a major development in Indonesian politics.

More startling, the novel and the mini-series end with an open endorsement of euthanasia in a case of an agonizingly painful terminal illness.

On September 10, 2008, Paul confirmed his open endorsement for the four candidates at a press conference in Washington D.C.

But political analysts here offer two theories to explain China's open endorsement of the club: First, they say, China is trying to show that it can tolerate a bit of iniquity.

In a church in New Haven on Sunday, for example, the two men shared a stage with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, both clearly watching Mr. Jackson's every move for signs of open endorsement.

Though novel for its open endorsement of indiscriminate killing, Bin Ladin's 1998 declaration was only the latest in the long series of his public and private calls since 1992 that singled out the United States for attack.

The old guard objects to the linkage between the bid for personal support and an open endorsement of reform, while the party members across the country are furious at Mr. Hague's apparent unwillingness to give them increased participation in the party's decisions.

At least one Cottolene cookbook, "Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners" by Elizabeth O. Hiller, was reprinted in its entirety in 1981, with all references to Cottolene intact, both in the opening endorsements and the following recipes.

Thompson's legitimacy as a candidate was enhanced by open endorsements from former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois, and then Governor Claude Roy Kirk, Jr. of Florida.

It was the Bush Administration's most open endorsement of the economic changes brought about by the Soviet President, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, and it seemed to represent a new approach by an Administration that has been criticized for being too tepid in its response to Mr. Gorbachev.

An editorial by the Washington Times and separate piece in the paper on August 13, 2009, in what was deemed to be an open endorsement of Bob Riley as a potential 2012 presidential candidate instantly threw the governor's name into the political field of possible nominees as state and national media jumped on the story.