Following the election, they formally backed Goldwater, who upon hearing the news after a leak in January 1963, notified the group that he did not wish to begin a campaign.

When asked yesterday whether McNeil was formally backing out of the settlement, a company spokeswoman, Julie Keenan, declined to elaborate.

Despite these diplomatic difficulties, President Clinton formally backed the indictment.

Sinn Fein is the only one of the eight parties that negotiated the agreement that has not yet formally backed it for the coming vote.

So far, county leaders have not formally backed any of the people who have expressed interest in the race.

Although President Bush has not formally backed all of the items, he has endorsed many of them, they said, which should assure his signature.

After a year-long review of the proposal, the Port Authority formally backed the project on March 11, 1961.

In response, by March Russian oil firms had widely given up on the curbs even if the government was still formally backing them.

The majority party, the centrist Brazilian Democratic Movement, which formally backs the Government, refuses to endorse unpopular economic measures that could undermine its own electoral chances.