So the president and his chief supporters have resorted to the odd tactic of claiming that the bad news is good.

And he'd continue to be one of the chief supporters.

The foundation is the chief private financial supporter of scientific research on diabetes.

His chief supporter, George Young, is leaving the team.

Not surprisingly, he was also one of the chief supporters of the railway in local politics.

He quickly became the chief supporter and expositor of relativity in Britain.

He remains its leading figure and chief financial supporter.

The project has also produced considerable work for some of his chief political supporters.

For a time the earl was one of the new king's chief supporters, and seems to have been regarded with affection by him.

In a high proportion of these cases the occupation of father or mother's chief economic supporter, where known, is manual (particularly social class V).