8 sentences with 'supporters'
Example sentences and phrases with the word supporters and other words derived from it.
• « Savimbi's supporters claim that an American oil company, Chevron, is also helping to continue the war. »
• « Marius quickly attacked with his own army, taking Rome and killing several of Lucius Cornelius Sulla's supporters. »
• « After Lucius Cornelius Sulla's final victory, he had thousands of Marius' supporters executed. »
• « Two powerful politicians, Pompey and Crassus (both of whom had come to prominence as supporters of Lucius Cornelius Sulla), joined forces to crush Spartacus' slave revolt in 70 BC and were elected consuls because of their success. »
• « Many of the early adopters of Protestantism were attracted to the new movement because they were already enthusiastic supporters of church reform. »
• « However, when James II (r. 1685 - 1688) came to the throne, even his former supporters the Tories were alarmed when he began to appoint Catholics to positions of power, contrary to existing laws which required all legislators and officials to be Anglican. »
• « Robespierre inspired disgust and fear even among some of his former supporters because of his fanatical devotion to the revolutionary cause and his evident attachment to using terror to achieve his ends. »
• « The "Anti-Dreyfus" argued that no Jew could really be a Frenchman and that Dreyfus, as a Jew, was inherently predisposed to lie and cheat, while Dreyfus' supporters argued that anyone could be a true and legitimate French citizen, including Jews. »