Watch my back.

Keep me covered.

He gave me rear cover!

Alternatively, the low responsiveness of prices and wages could reflect high labour mobility.

Or is it a cause without backing?

He has the backing of a certain politician.

You're gonna need a cover story.

Take this report as a mandate and as a support.

The first is political support for the efforts of the OAU.

We now have the Japanese public s support to make all of these changes happen.

With American backing, Israeli bombs and missiles rained down on Lebanon.

And Russia and China continue to provide diplomatic cover, with Iran sending material support.

Musharraf s presidency won t survive long without military backing.

Haven't got all the permits sorted but, um, John's got us covered, OK?

Bloody suppression With the support of the Reich government, the uprising was suppressed by General Watter, approaching from the north.

Saddam Hussein is being backed by the EU in his efforts to erode the UN resolutions on Iraq.

When national ministers meet in the European Summit, they would then at least be covered by national parliaments.

We come from different national traditions.

On taking office in January 1961, Kennedy was informed that the missile gap was an illusion.

I do not have the time now to go into details and discuss the consequences, but I feel that this is the direction in which our thoughts should be going.

Of course, the OSCE's presence in Albania does have political backing from large portions of the country's electorate.

A real food safety agency will never get off the ground, unless of course it has strong political backing.

But one of its purposes was to obtain the Syrian backed Hezbollah s support for an IMF style recovery program.

In Zionism, the Jewish community in Palestine was the focus of decision making, with the Jewish Diaspora a strategic back up.

But this movie couldn't have been made without a major studio backing it, yes I'm looking at you Warner Brothers.

They continued to plot war against either the Soviet Union or the Western democracies, assuming Germany would eventually act against either of them.

It gives him support in figures in the price formation and moral support in negotiations with contractors.

Interestingly enough, the day before yesterday, it received public backing for this from the right and the left political opposition camps in the Russian Federation.

Mr Klepsch. (DE) Mr President, Ministers, fellow Members, I am sure that it is a pure coincidence that the House is debating this draft European Act at such a late hour. I only hope that those observing the state of the Community and the problems besetting it will resist the temptation of drawing a fateful parallel between the advanced hour and the possibility of resolving the problems.

The actions of Ambassador Moratinos have been magnificent but, in order to be more effective, he needs political support which, unfortunately, he is not being given.

After three months, in 1898, China and Russia negotiated a convention by which China leased (to Russia) Port Arthur, Talienwan and the surrounding waters.

First of all, this is the first reading of the budget and it is understandable that this first reading should permit Parliament to voice the wishes, desires and leanings of the various parties.

Thus, it means a network of basic industries corresponding to the fundamental needs of the population, decentralized in the rural areas and, with this end in view, indigenous renewable energy sources and an emphasis on training in appropriate tech nology.

If America acts alone, the likely costs of war to the world economy will be higher than if it has the backing of the UN.

Part of it, for instance, contained agricultural elements, and while not attempting to be controversial, I must also remind everyone that part of it was a payment to Britain.

Please count on the support and backing of Parliament, and we hope that the European Union' s objectives on this issue are achieved.

Syria, bolstered by the 14,000 troops it stationed in Lebanon, has imposed its choice as Lebanon s president and otherwise interfered with Lebanese politics.

The 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath highlighted the consequences of the BCB s outdated institutional design. The Bank had insufficient legal backing for action needed to stabilize the financial system.

The European Parliament, however, is still being asked to endorse, on the basis of representative democracy, a practice that only benefits industrial and financial groups, and certainly not the unemployed.

The best structural adjustment programs are those in which the debtor country s government proposes the policy changes, and the IMF helps design a bespoke program and provides the political cover for its implementation.

Huddersfield Town backed Chapman in his appeal against his ban, arguing that as he had been working at the factory in Barnbow during the war, he had not been in charge of Leeds City during the time illegal payments were paid.

One of them could be Geely, which aims to acquire Volvo, but the option of the Dutch sports car manufacturer Skyper, which is funded by the Russian group Converg, is gaining momentum.

3.3 In order to defuse this opposition, the EESC believes it is essential to provide a strict definition of experiments that could be set up with the support and under the responsibility of public authorities of any kind.

They would also likely enjoy the backing of the as yet unspecified leader of the fifth generation due to replace Hu in 2012, someone likely to be a provincial level leader with strong reform credentials.

It is possible that Licinianus was the same Valens Senior, who usurped the purple in Rome during the absence of the Emperor Decius in the war against the Goths (250), and who was quickly executed.