Sentence examples for a loyal backer from inspiring English sources

In the summer Mr Immelt added a loyal backer by bringing in Abu Dhabi's Mubadala sovereign-wealth fund as a big shareholder.

Renan Calheiros, the Senate president, formerly a loyal backer of Ms Rousseff, recently threw out of the chamber a presidential decree that would have ended some payroll-tax breaks.

As a loyal backer of Mr. Mubarak, and a former member of his governing National Democratic Party, he had not dared to show up at the protests against Mr. Morsi, for fear of tainting a movement whose aims he supported with unmistakable glee.

In April, the company lost over $20 billion in value after South African investment and media firm Naspers — an early and loyal backer — announced it was trimming its stake by two percent.

Also noticeable were some who stuck by Mr. Clinton in the impeachment imbroglio -- like his friend Vernon Jordan; the actress Whoopi Goldberg, his loyal backer; and Gene Lyons, a journalist who wrote a recent book harshly critical of Kenneth W. Starr, the former independent counsel.

Blanca Nelida Colan, Peru's attorney general who was considered a loyal Montesinos backer, resigned on Friday.

He held ceremonial bill signings and summoned gay rights advocates, some of his most loyal backers, to a gathering to sign an executive order granting antidiscrimination protection to transgender employees at state agencies for the first time.

But late last year he staged a comeback campaign, picking up on popular loathing of a housing tax introduced by Monti, outshining a lackluster campaign by center-left candidate Pierluigi Bersani in the run-up to elections in February and placing his loyal backers in a cross-party government created after the election and led by Enrico Letta.

The "establishment" candidates Senator Joseph Lieberman, Senator John Kerry and Dick Gephardt, a former House of Representatives minority leader were among the most loyal backers of Mr Bush in his case for war.

Mr. Schwarz, a solid conductor and tireless booster, built up the orchestra and won many loyal backers.

He imagined a vast conspiracy against him, and jailed and tortured thousands of his most loyal backers, including his own mother and sister.