"Disney provided crucial financial, moral and public backing when a lot of people questioned the wisdom of the whole thing," Mr. Wenner said in an interview.

More important is the bank's moral backing, without which the oil companies might have abandoned the project.

Sit down, Lee, and give me your moral backing.

Pakistan said only 19 or 20 of its soldiers had been killed and that it provides only diplomatic and moral backing for rebels fighting in Kashmir.

While Western diplomats say Iran apparently provided weapons, moral backing and other support for the rebels in the south, Iraq's Arab neighbors did not.

This is apparently due to the changes made in editorial policy, and the moral backing of Headquarters, which has increased the circulation in general.

In addition, an advisory committee of distinguished writers lends its moral and intellectual backing to the Lettre Ulysses Award.

With moral backing and further support from his relatives, he soon found a job in the tailoring trade.

The strikers, some 25,000 strong by involving over 100,000 dependants, initially received the backing, moral and financial, of the British trade-union movement to an unprecedented degree.

Once more Washington is depriving a struggling people of the one powerful asset they thought they had - the moral and political backing of the United States.