Sentence examples for a longtime backer from inspiring English sources

The Governor, a longtime backer of educational change, has called for a $500 million commitment for further improvements.

In Libya, China was a longtime backer of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, and since the revolution and his death, the new leaders have failed to honor China's contracts.

Alas, Mr. Beatty, a longtime backer of Democratic presidential candidates who has toyed with running for the White House himself, was not available.

He was an early supporter of the late Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and was a longtime backer of the Vietnam War.

Blanche Lincoln, the former Democratic senator from Arkansas and a longtime backer of her home state retailer, said in an interview that she thought that Wal-Mart could ride out the negative publicity over the Mexico controversy.

"Look, Bill Bradley is a fine fellow and he has a good record," said Bill Campbell, the two-term mayor of Atlanta, who is black and a longtime backer of Mr. Gore.

She just went on TV, as a loyal friend and longtime backer of Obama, to spin things up.

The funding, for "fossil energy research and development," is likely to go to a power plant in a small Illinois town, a project whose longtime backers include a group of powerful lawmakers from the state, among them President Obama.

The companies were controlled by a longtime financial backer and friend of President Bush.

Carl Paladino, a longtime Trump backer and former Republican nominee for governor of New York, hailed the result of the referendum.

Alan Kessler, a lawyer in Philadelphia and a longtime Gore backer, said he supported Mr. Gore but hoped he would make it clear soon that he was running.