Another word for supports

Larger globes are usually on a stand the top of which supports an artificial horizon.

Certain evidence which supports this view will be referred to later.

I do not mean that exactly, but I mean something which he might think a good deal like that; I mean that they should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end.

Moving troops in close proximity to an enemy is always dangerous, and military history supports that view.

The state supports a highly efficient public school system, organized through all the grades from the primary district and rural schools to the state university.