The three women, liberal activists who strongly

[aspirant2011]

The three women, liberal activists who strongly support legislation in favor of civil rights and environmental protection, have consistently received labor's unqualifying support.

A. have consistently received labor's unqualifying support
B. are consistently receiving the unqualifying support of labor
C. have consistently received the unqualified support of labor
D. receive consistent and unqualified support by labor
E. are receiving consistent and unqualified support by labor

[spoiler]OA: A vs C....which one is better and why????[/spoiler]

[g.shankaran]

The three women, liberal activists who strongly support legislation in favor of civil rights and environmental protection, have consistently received labor's unqualifying support.

A. have consistently received labor's unqualifying support
B. are consistently receiving the unqualifying support of labor
C. have consistently received the unqualified support of labor
D. receive consistent and unqualified support by labor
E. are receiving consistent and unqualified support by labor

[spoiler]OA: A vs C....which one is better and why????[/spoiler]

IMO C.. I am considering parallelism

[Calvin123]

The three women, liberal activists who strongly support legislation in favor of civil rights and environmental protection, have consistently received labor's unqualifying support.

A. have consistently received labor's unqualifying support
B. are consistently receiving the unqualifying support of labor
C. have consistently received the unqualified support of labor
D. receive consistent and unqualified support by labor
E. are receiving consistent and unqualified support by labor

[spoiler]OA: A vs C....which one is better and why????[/spoiler]

IMO C
I think 'labor's unqualifying support' is bit awkward, where as .. the unqualified support of labor.. seems more clear and concise to me. But i don't see any grammatical problem in A as well, but prefer C over A. What is the OA?

[phanideepak]

When ever there is an apostrophe expand the sentence and see it

in this case lets say have consistently received labor's unqualifying support can be written as

have consistently received unqualifying support of labour

now compare this with

have consistently received the unqualified support of labor

So as you see both the sentences differ only in unqualifying and unqualified. IMO I've never unqualified support is the right way as i have come across this usage in many news papers and articles.

SO IMO answer is
C

[sameerballani]

The three women, liberal activists who strongly support legislation in favor of civil rights and environmental protection, have consistently received labor's unqualifying support.

A. have consistently received labor's unqualifying support
C. have consistently received the unqualified support of labor

[spoiler]OA: A vs C....which one is better and why????[/spoiler]

I will add my 2 cents -

I would recommend you first go through: https://www.beatthegmat.com/companies-in ... tml#367679
I hope it helped.

A) have consistently received labor's unqualifying support
In this the meaning changes because of the use of possessive. Let us assume if we have some level of distinction and the support of level above that is qualifying whereas support of level below that is unqualifying.
So basically, this options says the labour's support, which was below par. Sort of negative meaning.
Above approach seems mathematical, but using it to clarify my point

C. have consistently received the unqualified support of labor
This options tends to say that the support of labour is unqualified. It means the support was good and to such an extent that it cannot be qualified. Sort of positive.And goes with the Meaning.

We can have some expert comments on the same in order to verify.

I hope it helps
Thanks

[GMATGuruNY]

The three women, liberal activists who strongly support legislation in favor of civil rights and environmental protection, have consistently received labor's unqualifying support.

A. have consistently received labor's unqualifying support
B. are consistently receiving the unqualifying support of labor
C. have consistently received the unqualified support of labor
D. receive consistent and unqualified support by labor
E. are receiving consistent and unqualified support by labor

[spoiler]OA: A vs C....which one is better and why????[/spoiler]

One definition of to qualify is to limit.
In the SC above, to have unqualified support means to have unlimited support.

In A and B, unqualifying support means that the support is not limiting something else. The intended meaning of the sentence is that the activists have the unqualified support (meaning the unlimited support) of labor. Eliminate A and B.

In D and E, by labor is not the correct idiom. X is supported by Y, but X receives the support of Y. Eliminate D and E.

The correct answer is C.

[aspirant2011]

The three women, liberal activists who strongly support legislation in favor of civil rights and environmental protection, have consistently received labor's unqualifying support.

A. have consistently received labor's unqualifying support
B. are consistently receiving the unqualifying support of labor
C. have consistently received the unqualified support of labor
D. receive consistent and unqualified support by labor
E. are receiving consistent and unqualified support by labor

[spoiler]OA: A vs C....which one is better and why????[/spoiler]

One definition of to qualify is to limit.
In the SC above, to have unqualified support means to have unlimited support.

In A and B, unqualifying support means that the support is not limiting something else. The intended meaning of the sentence is that the activists have the unqualified support (meaning the unlimited support) of labor. Eliminate A and B.

In D and E, by labor is not the correct idiom. X is supported by Y, but X receives the support of Y. Eliminate D and E.

The correct answer is C.

thanks mitch for your good explanation .....yup OA is C.....

[vikram4689]

Thanks Mitch for clearing this concept. I could not understand one thing and that is how you derived the following meaning. PLease explain

unqualifying support means that the support is not limiting something else.

[lunarpower]

i'm actually not even sure that "unqualifying" is a real word.
if you google it, all of the top 20 hits are either (a) references to this gmat problem or (b) sites with obscure words for puzzle games like Scrabble.
these are both significant, because neither gmat sites nor puzzle sites rank among the uppermost websites in terms of popularity -- i.e., this word's conspicuous absence from more prominent sites suggests that it may not be a real word. i certainly wouldn't use it.

if it *is* a real word, then it means "not meeting some sort of standard for qualification" -- in the sense that "qualify" means "meet a standard" (e.g. 10 teams qualified for the tournament).

as GGNY pointed out, the intended meaning here is "unqualified", which means "without any sort of restriction or reservation".