No less significantly, Mr Assad appears to be edging away from his previous all-out backing for Hamas, whose Damascus-based leaders have often sounded more intransigent than their beleaguered peers in Gaza.
The Democrats, who are backing the bail-out, control only 50 seats (Barack Obama has resigned his seat and his successor has not yet been appointed).
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Backing out one-time charges, AMD reported a loss of 90 cents per share, far short of analyst expectations of a loss of 48 cents per share.
Each team put its own spin on the numbers, with HD DVD-backing Universal pointing out that despite a 5:1 advantage in hardware due to the PS3, disc sales are still nearly even, while Blu-ray supporter 20th Century Fox sees the format war as being in its "final phase, " and fence-straddling Warner merely noting that both formats are "selling well".
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Believing that the league is unattractive, amateurishly run and constantly haemorrhages its best players, Nigerian football fans - those backing Kano Pillars aside - have not come out in numbers to attend games.
Although profit was down, backing out a one-time gain from the year-ago figures reverses that result.
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Mustaq eventually had Cork caught at mid-off by Luke Wright and Sajid Mahmood was the last man out for eight, unluckily run out backing up at the non-striker's end.
The Sadrists -- who say the constitution does not spell out a process for voting on international agreements -- are backing a draft law calling for a two-thirds majority for such agreements to pass.
This belated change of heart provides some backing for the ten-year vision for transport spelled out by Mr Prescott this week.
In the meantime, the threat of possible criminal charges hanging over Mr Sharon may make Mr Bush wary of giving his open backing to the Israeli prime minister over the Gaza pull-out plan.
It misses out crucial stuff in the middle - real decisions on backing key technologies on their journey from the lab to the marketplace.
Backing up your personal PC to external media might still be a novel concept for some, but any IT manager fresh out of school can tell you that regularly backing up mission-critical servers -- and storing those backups in multiple physical locations -- isn't merely important, it's practically non-negotiable, and it only becomes that much more critical before undertaking hardware maintenance.
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However, as critics have pointed out, much of the backing for Open ID is only one-way.
Without cross-party support the German leader will struggle to secure public backing for bailing out Germany's neighbours, he says.
Branson has decided Virgin will get more value out of backing an underdog after sponsoring Brawn GP in their championship-winning debut season.
But shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg accused the government of being "out of touch" on school sport by not backing the two-hour target.
But - just to confirm that not all of Tony Blair's greatest hits have gone out of fashion, he gave his enthusiastic backing to the euro - a sound that has not been heard since, well, Lord Mandelson was last in government.
Now lenders of every stripecommercial institutions, bridge-loan outfits, venture leasing firmsare falling all over themselves to hand out cash to profit-challenged companies, provided they have venture capital backing.
Consider what the mighty oil-and-gas lobby might be co-opted to do either out of gratitude for the president's backing or fear that he might turn on it.
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