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Supportive   /səpˈɔrtɪv/   Listen
Supportive

adjective
1.
Furnishing support or assistance.  "His family was supportive of his attempts to be a writer"





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"Supportive" Quotes from Famous Books



... oil resources and rich agricultural areas. Growth has been uneven because of natural disasters (e.g., a major earthquake in 1987), fluctuations in global oil prices, and government policies designed to curb inflation. The government has not taken a supportive attitude toward either domestic or foreign investment, although its agreement to enter the Andean free trade zone is ...
— The 1991 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... whether the subject is at rest or in motion, the bony column of the leg, together with attached ligaments, tendons and muscles, is wonderfully well adapted by nature for the function which they perform. The several bones which go to make up the supportive portion of the leg, are so joined at their points of articulation, that a minimum degree of strain is put upon ...
— Lameness of the Horse - Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 • John Victor Lacroix


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