lend support

He alerted police and then raced across London in person to lend support, finding him at a police station.

This again seems to lend support to the hypothesis of a western origin.

Under any circumstances one is likely to look about for such details as may lend support to the total impression.

However, her mother's arms were stretched out behind her, ready to lend support.

Some facts lend support to every one of these theories of social progress, but other facts refuse to be harmonized.

Observations of wild-taken B. taylori held in captivity, lend support to its being crepuscular.