Sentence examples for a firm backing from inspiring English sources

Mount your painting on a firm backing.

Generally thinner pieces of wood are easier to use, but remember to provide a firm backing.

Made of wool or silk, handwoven Turkish rugs are single or double knotted onto a firm backing.

One willing bidder was NBNK, a firm backed by Wilbur Ross, an American investor who also has a stake in Virgin Money.

And a firm backed by Qatar agreed to buy an arm of the KBC Group of Belgium for $1.4 billion, giving KBC additional capital to support its troubled balance sheet.

Witness the Byzantine struggle between Borse Dubai, a firm backed by the emirate's government, and the Qatar Investment Authority, for the title of the Middle East's financial hub.

Fannie Mae's bosses are not responsible only to their shareholders; the managers of a firm backed by the public have obligations to taxpayers as well.

ONO's private-equity owners had been considering a flotation of the firm.Meanwhile, Vivendi, a French conglomerate, entered into exclusive talks about selling its SFR telecoms operations with Altice, a firm backed by Patrick Drahi, a telecoms entrepreneur.

Mike Gallagher of Flarion, a firm backed by Cisco, likens Wi-Fi to cordless phones that work within a limited range of a base-station, whereas 4G is akin to mobile phones that work anywhere.Numerous 4G technologies are working today.

BLOOMBERG NEWS Investment Firms Buy Delinquent Mortgages at a Discount  |  Investors including Selene Investment Partners and a firm backed by the Blackstone Group bought delinquent home loans being sold by the Federal Housing Administration, paying cents on the dollar, Bloomberg News reports.

It joins Planetary Resources, a firm backed by Larry Page and Eric Schmidt of Google, which launched last year and promises to have its first asteroid-hunting spacecraft in orbit by late 2014.The potential bonanza is, well, astronomical.