rally for/behind

idiom

: to publicly show support for

Parents rallied for/behind the new dress code guidelines.

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Videos of a Saturday-night rally for this purpose in Tehran’s Palestine Square appeared to show a couple of hundred people there at most. —Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2024

Then, when Trump refused to accept the results of the 2020 election, and again in the aftermath of the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, nearly 50 chief executives, including the heads of Johnson & Johnson and Walmart, came together to rally behind America’s democratic institutions. —Jonathan Mahler Edoardo Ballerini Emma Kehlbeck Joel Thibodeau, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2024

Trump's most recent attacks on some migrants came Saturday, during what was scheduled to be a guest appearance at a campaign rally for Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno. —Soo Rin Kim, ABC News, 17 Mar. 2024

Gun control advocates held a rally for gun safety in Augusta earlier this week. —CBS News, 7 Mar. 2024

Trump attended a rally for Moreno outside Dayton on Saturday, denouncing Dolan as insufficiently conservative. —Gary Langer, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2024

Trump is scheduled to speak at 4 p.m. at a rally for businessman Bernie Moreno, who is running for the chance to take on Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown this fall. —Haley Bemiller, The Enquirer, 16 Mar. 2024

On the afternoon before election day, a group called Stand With Crypto hosted a get-out-the-vote rally for crypto owners in Los Angeles. —Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024

The students were affiliated with Students Demand Action, a national organization committed to ending gun violence, and came to the Statehouse to participate in a Moms Demand Action rally for gun safety legislation. —Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Feb. 2024