11.   Friends Dave and Ruth McCourt were her strongest supporters, she says, encouraging her to move back to New York for good.

12.   Her failure to appear at a debate at Temple Sinai in the final days of the campaign disappointed even her strongest Jewish supporters.

13.   Law left for Rome accompanied only by one of his closest confidants and strongest supporters, Monsignor Paul B. McInerny, director of Boston Catholic Television.

14.   Penelas, among the strongest local supporters of the airport, said he was disappointed by the decision not to allow it.

15.   Quebecers are the strongest supporters of free trade in North America.

16.   The advertisement that is to premiere Wednesday is clearly an appeal to women and blue-collar voters, whom McCaughey Ross says are her strongest supporters.

17.   The Chamber of Commerce of the state of New York was the strongest supporter.

18.   The idea that David Robinson was soft was always a stretch, but his strongest supporters never called him arrogant.

19.   The strongest supporters are labor unions and consumer groups.

20.   The strongest supporters of these institutions have been the nisei, or the children of Japanese immigrants.