Sentence examples for Sought backing from inspiring English sources
He returned to the United States later that year and sought backing for another voyage.
From 2006, Munk shadowed Sachs across Africa and into state offices and UN meetings as he sought backing – financial and ideological – for his Millennium Villages Project MVPP).
When aides to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg recently sought backing from City Council members for a key development project, they heard something they were not accustomed to: No. Normally, Mr. Bloomberg would quickly bring them into line.
In 2018, a wider coalition sought backing for an initiative that would have poured fee revenue into clean energy projects, job retraining and early retirement plans for affected workers.
One camp was headed by Mr. Hausfeld and two other well-known lawyers, Melvyn I. Weiss of New York and Martin Mendelsohn of Washington, who were aligned with the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles and sought backing from other Jewish groups.
ODG sought backing from Chinese firms, but sources say that a negative trade environment hampered those efforts.
Avram Grant has insisted the sought-after midfielder Scott Parker will remain his West Ham United side's heartbeat, while also backing the England internationals Robert Green and Matthew Upson to overcome their disappointing World Cups.
Lennear, who is now in her 60s, was at one time a sought-after back-up singer, performing with stars like George Harrison, Ike and Tina Turner, and Joe Cocker.
Argentina took a long-sought step back toward financial normalcy today as the government lifted a much-reviled freeze on most bank accounts.
Tin Lizzy, a street-smart young woman of many names, is a sought-after "back-tech" programmer; she fills in the backgrounds of virtual chat rooms and other online environments with convincing details that enhance the user's sense of reality.
The manse isn't lavish, but its large garden backs onto Windsor Great Park (which itself backs onto Windsor Castle), providing the kind of upscale seclusion befitting the most sought-after woman in the world at the time.
