These goals reflected the interests of the movement's initial supporters.

An early scheme approached but did not include Litchfield's house and he was an initial supporter of the project.

Her children were the initial major supporters of the Y's revitalization.

He was even losing the trust of his initial supporters.

"You're talking about redeveloping a 50-block area," said a tourism executive who was an initial supporter of the stadium.

Lansky rankled initial supporters again when the new center was built by a non-union contractor that had no collective bargaining agreement with its workers.

Even some initial supporters were beginning to doubt his prospects.

Opponents fight an uphill battle, but they can usually win if they have plenty of money and if the initial supporters have reneged.

More than two-thirds of its initial supporters hold doctorates, 86% male, giving it the nickname the "professors' party".