Sentence examples for a significant backer from inspiring English sources

But in fact, Maximum Golf has a significant backer.

The school started out five years ago as Nations Academy, but lost a significant backer during the financial crisis.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, for instance, has been a significant backer of high schools that also offer college work, including a growing number in New York City.

One of the world's biggest lenders, the state owned China Development Bank, wants to become a significant backer of Britain's major infrastructure projects.

SpyBiotech — a startup spun out of Oxford University that has developed a way to bond antigens to viruses and other particles to make vaccines — has announced £4 million ($5 million) in funding from GV, the Alphabet/Google-backed VC, and Oxford Sciences Innovation, Oxford's own venture fund, which also counts GV as a significant backer of its own £580 million fund.

But Mr. Thompson gained a symbolically significant backer on Tuesday in Dov Hikind, a Democratic state assemblyman who represents the heavily Orthodox neighborhood of Borough Park, Brooklyn, and is a longtime power broker in the Orthodox community.

Johnson has, nevertheless, managed to pick up a number of significant backers of the remain cause, including Nick Boles, the modernising Tory skills minister, and Liz Truss, the environment secretary.

Verdict: Now established in the very top rank, and with some significant backers, his odds could be generous and he's the choice of punters seeking 'value'value

Furthermore, we found evidence that herding has a significant moderating effect on backers' reward motivation.

Unfortunately there remains a significant minority of potential backers who do still behave in this appalling way.

In many ways, today's protest marks a significant challenge for student backers of the Occupy Wall Street movement, not only in terms of coordination and organization, but also with respect to maintaining momentum.