1.   Families have the worry of trying to keep things together and trying to be supportive in a tense situation.

2.   And none other than Collins has been totally supportive in the process.

3.   A homework-friendly parent will be supportive in other ways.

4.   But American diplomats said the Arab leaders have been supportive in private countries because they are so wary of Hussein.

5.   Democratic colleagues were uniformly supportive in every conversation I had with them.

6.   It is one of the pieces that could be more supportive in the welfare-to-work program.

7.   Others were more supportive in the audience, which included General Motors Corp. Chairman and CEO John Smith Jr. and millionaire Republican fundraiser Max Fisher.

8.   Several black Southern Baptists praised the resolution and some prominent blacks outside the denomination were supportive in varying degrees.

9.   The parents were more supportive in the early years when the students misbehaved.