While both professors are critics of the court's federalism rulings, even strong supporters offer, if regretfully, a similar analysis.

Pro-choice supporters offer no sympathy because they are reluctant to admit that what was lost might have been worthy of grief.

In every case, Mr. Levin and his supporters could offer a defense.

The president's supporters offer a curious defense: helplessness.

The two lawmakers and their supporters offered a series of amendments, apparently in a test of strength.

But even his most ardent supporters offered no actual reasons why he'd be a good president.

One enthusiastic supporter more than a century ago offered to go without pudding for a year to raise much-needed funds.

Another leap forward occurred in 1999, when a supporter, Tom Johnson, offered to donate an adjacent building.

He said the tabulations had been rigged against him, but he and his supporters offered little in the way of evidence.

However, this was unsatisfactory because its supporters could offer no convincing mechanism to produce a significant expansion of the Earth.