Sentence examples for an important backer from inspiring English sources

But the governor seems to have lost an important backer.

And Senator McCain's counterpart in the House, Representative Billy Tauzin of Louisiana, has also been an important backer.

Russia, an important backer of the Syrian government, also indicated that there was no deal on the talks.

He has apparently won the support of an important backer, Makiko Tanaka, a similarly outspoken party member who is the most popular politician in Japan.

Early on, the company became an important backer of Fair Trade, according to Paul Rice, president and CEO of Fair Trade USA.

The company was an important backer of Google TV, an effort by the search giant to create software for powering Internet-connected televisions and set-top boxes.

In Florida, where health interests have given a total of about $32 million over the last six years, the state medical association has become an especially important backer of the proposed amendment.

Three years later, the Dial's other important backer -Dr. Watson, a wealthy physician originally from Rochester-decided to return home, where, with the assistance of the Eastman Kodak Co., he could indulge his interest in photography.

Bol became an important financial backer of the rebels, the Sudan People's Liberation Army.

The 33-member cast will also include Veanne Cox, Paul Dano and mos (formerly known as Mos Def), under the direction of George C. Wolfe ("Caroline, or Change"), a former artistic director of the Public Theater, which canceled its plans to produce the show in 2008 after an important financial backer withdrew her support.

The city had a profound effect on the trajectory of Lee's writing career, connecting her with Broadway composer Michael Martin Brown who would become an important financial backer and one of her most avid supporters.