Ben said, "If he's got military backing, there's no way you can go up against him."

"I think someone with stronger military backing will be China's next leader!"

However, there was no significant resistance to the martial law and any foreign military backing proved unnecessary.

They have military backing, training in a dozen or more different arts of killing, and information on every one of you.

Then they needed our military backing because of the Soviet threat.

Instead, the administration has chosen to seek help and support from other nations, mostly those that are already providing aid or military backing.

This dependency on military backing continued to manifest itself throughout his reign.

By that time France supplied its former colony's regime with financial and military backing.

"Unscom, with military backing, is now in a much stronger position," the diplomat said.

A new more political strategy is perhaps more appropriate here with military backing.