rally behind

present singular third person rallies behind · participle present rallying behind · participle past rallied behind · past rallied behind

1. To support, particularly in a time of crisis.

   But I know my role. I'm the one who rallies behind the kids.

   2005 02, Paula Abdul, quotee, People

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   I rallied behind him completely. If there was a trophy for cheerleading I would have won it because I was my husband's biggest supporter.

   2020 February 1, Sue Nyathi, The Polygamist, Pan Macmillan South africa, →ISBN

   Initially, party elites did not rally behind Trump because his candidacy was not perceived as credible.

   2020 April 7, Agnès Alexandre-Collier, Alexandra Goujon, Guillaume Gourgues, Innovations, Reinvented Politics and Representative Democracy, Routledge, →ISBN

   Now, in May, he rallied behind the Crown's long-term plan to create a royal museum that displayed its historic collection alongside recently purchased artworks.

   2024 May 31, David Gilks, Quatremère de Quincy: Art and Politics during the French Revolution, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 65