In the case ofmoralsupportgiven from children to parents, showing affection and love may be the major demand of the older generation.
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Other forms of support are two-way, such asmoralsupportin difficult situations, shopping, helping with housework, minor household repairs, driving (giving lifts) and gardening.
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Nowadays, it is true, authors whose partners are also academics tend to acknowledgemoralsupportand intellectual dialogue.
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More ambiguously he argues that they must also forge ' alliances across national boundaries ' to gain logistical, political, financial andmoralsupport.
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In certain ways, this paper is about personal and institutional patronage: the working out of a difficult theoretical impasse requires individual and collectivemoralsupport.
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The rise of the temperance movement in the 1880s was hailed as a greatmoralsupportto the work of the mission.
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Cultural aid from children to parents is strategic in the sense that, together with providingmoralsupport, they take full responsibility for the mental health of their parents.
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In terms of cultural aid, the children may be expected to givemoralsupportto their parents and not to leave them alone and isolated in the home.
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We depend, after all, on drivers to stay on their side of the road, on family and friends formoralsupport, on banks to safeguard our money, and so on.
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The organization built up a team of interviewers who helped each person to sort out financial, travel, home and work problems, and gave her reassurance andmoralsupport.
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Obviously they should trust : parents needmoralsupportfrom their children, otherwise if you should you tie yourself to your children you are interfering with their own lives.
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Others may be able to give diplomatic ormoralsupport.
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They want thatmoralsupportbehind them to make the right decision.
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The security forces deserve and have earned ourmoralsupport.
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Possibly, but imponderables were not intended to mean onlymoralsupport.
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