6 sentences with 'supporting'
Example sentences and phrases with the word supporting and other words derived from it.
• « In the debates, students were expected to cite not only the passage itself, but whatever supporting evidence they could glean from the vast body of sacred and ancient writings. »
• « Joan of Arc was a peasant girl who stepped into the middle of the conflict in 1429, supporting the French dauphin (heir) Charles VII. »
• « Despite the return to the near-anarchic conditions of tribal rule, the one area in which the Safavids were successful was in supporting the growth of the Shia ulama, or Muslim clergy, supporting pilgrimages to Shia holy sites, funding madrasas and mosques, and encouraging the spread of Shia Islam at the expense of the remaining Sunnis. »
• « The French king, Charles X, was a child when the fighting began and the state was led by his mother, Catherine de Medici, who tended to vacillate between supporting her fellow Catholics and supporting the Protestants who were the enemies of Spain, France's rival to the south. »
• « In some cases, they were able to reduce the power and independence of some of their nobles by supporting even more onerous control of the peasantry: for example, in Bohemia, peasants were forced to work three days a week for their nobles, free of charge, and in return the Bohemian nobles allowed the emperor greater control over their own territory. »
• « Specifically, Galileo was accused of supporting a condemned doctrine, heliocentrism, not of heresy per se. »