1.   The decision was backed by the responsible government minister.

2.   Both Reno and President Bill Clinton back the decision to return Elian to his father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, in Cuba.

3.   But they must back their decisions up with results, which are measured by the state skills exam, the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills.

4.   Decisions on any issue would be taken by majority vote, provided at least one-third of each group backed the decision.

5.   Doctors Without Borders, the Nobel Prize-winning group of doctors working in poor countries and pressing for global access to inexpensive drugs, backed the decision.

6.   He backed the decision.

7.   Parks Commissioner Bernadette Castro said this spring that she would not allow it, and Gov. George Pataki indicated that he backed her decision.

8.   Rather, it declined to back the decision to sell Thomson Multimedia to Daewoo Electronics.

9.   Regulators will retain great discretion in assaying compliance, but they will be under pressure to back their decisions with statistics.

10.   The owners of adjacent fields have backed his decision.