1.   If all TECs are as helpful and supportive as Bradford, then long May they flourish.

2.   Not all employers were as supportive as the ones we have just described.

3.   Constantine is an appropriately imposing Poppa, while Lainie Kazan is appropriately supportive as his wife.

4.   New York has long been a hospitable stop for Clinton, and New Yorkers remain as supportive as any, even amid his current troubles.

5.   Not everyone was as supportive as the first correspondents.

6.   Their landing has been cushioned by an economy as supportive as a trampoline.