Sentence examples for a powerful backer from inspiring English sources

Its loss of a powerful backer in Syria could again upset Lebanon's delicate sectarian balance.Some Shias blame their apparently growing isolation on a global conspiracy.

All three A-listers are in the frame to play Frank Sinatra in Martin Scorsese's forthcoming biopic, and each has a powerful backer.

The company has a powerful backer in James P. Molinaro, the Staten Island borough president, who over the summer accompanied Pratt executives to a plant that uses similar technology in Dresden, Germany.

News of the House bill will no doubt send panicked supporters of JWST to the doorstep of Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), chair of the Senate appropriations panel that oversees NASA's budget and a powerful backer of the telescope, which would be based in her home state.

The preponderance of that Hutchison name signals one thing: Chi-Med has a very powerful backer in Li Ka-shing, Asia's richest man and chairman and dominant shareholder of the globe-spanning conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa.

And he has a new and powerful backer: in March, Colony Capital, an American private equity group worth $31bn, told him, he says, "'We like your story, we like your assets, we're in.' They will back me to become majority owner".

But challenges remain: the Syrian government has said it is open to talks to end the conflict that has killed more than 60,000 people, but rejects setting Mr. Assad's removal as a precondition, as does Russia, its most powerful backer.

Now, however, the idea of an Internet-ready home entertainment setup has a powerful new backer: Wal-Mart.

Rinat Akhmetov, one of Ukraine's richest men - and a powerful financial backer of Mr Yanukovych - said there were "no circumstances that would justify the use of force against peaceful citizens".

The agreement between the United States and Russia, Mr. Assad's most powerful backer, ended weeks of tension over the possibility of an imminent American military strike.

Mr Rosenthal is insistent that he had no powerful backer, either social or financial.