31.   Most of the country, Musharraf says, backs his decision to support the United States in its war on terrorism.

32.   Nevertheless the euro-zone ministers backed the decision to intervene and stood by ECB President Wim Duisenberg.

33.   Senior Chinese executive He Zhenliang backed the decision.

34.   Shivarov announced his intention to step down Wednesday night at a meeting with the leadership of his Agrarian Party, which backed his decision.

35.   The decision was backed by rabbis, who reaffirmed rulings that Jews cannot enter the Temple Mount for fear of treading on holy soil.

36.   The decision was backed Wednesday by the junior coalition partner, the Greens, and the major opposition parties.

37.   The Federal Office for Refugees originally refused to grant the family asylum, and a state administrative court in Duesseldorf backed the decision.

38.   The Mets backed the decision, and Phillips said both team members would be paid.

39.   The same argument would also have applied to back their decision to vote for the government at the end of the censure debate in March.

40.   The widely expected decision was backed by the major political parties and by church leaders in this predominantly Roman Catholic country.