Aides to Dr. Abdullah said he wholeheartedly backed Mr. Karzai and the accord.

As a result, one lawmaker, Jean-Michel Cina, introduced a bill to require national regulation of extreme sports, though federal officials never wholeheartedly backed his move.

So it was a dread-scratching move when Snoop wholeheartedly backed Colt 45's Blast, a malt liquor that tastes like sudsy cough syrup and contains 12% alcohol.

At the meeting to form the alliance, groups like the Brookhaven Historic District Advisory Committee wholeheartedly backed the plan.

On the right only the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph wholeheartedly backed Churchill.

So, whether by conviction or a realistic political assessment, Mr. Friedman wholeheartedly backed Mr. Serrano.

But that decision is one he backs wholeheartedly.

The Conservative Party, increasingly a single-issue, anti-abortion group, wholeheartedly backs a governor who favors abortion rights, Mr. Pataki.

It was not until the bombing of Pearl Harbor that most Italian-Americans wholeheartedly backed the Allied cause.

Instead, the mayor brought out the man's sealed juvenile court record to imply the shooting was justified and wholeheartedly backed the police.