Sentence examples for backed a project from inspiring English sources

However Kickstarter said 2,202,171 people backed a project for the first time in 2014.

Google has financially backed a project from a Harvard University scientist to unlock the secrets of common diseases by decoding the DNA of 100,000 people.

My brother enjoys tech, but he's not a super early adopter, and the risk of Kickstarter means he's never backed a project, yet this one merited his attention.

He also points out that backing a project gives you bragging rights.

"We're very clear about the fact that there is always risk involved in backing a project," says Luke Crane, games lead at Kickstarter.

Instead, Tyson persuaded him to consider backing a project by Sagan's widow and collaborator, writer Ann Druyan, to remake the venerable Cosmos for the 21st century.

Charlie Capen, 31, who blogs at How to Be a Dad, asked Honda, a sponsor of Dad 2.0, to back a project with his blog's co-founder, Andy Herald, and David Vienna of the site The Daddy Complex.

One investor tells Toback that he doesn't even read scripts but decides whether to back a project based on the stars involved, as the marketing of a movie has become more important than its content.

It takes guts to cancel a show and offend a sponsor, more guts, perhaps, than it would have taken to back a project with which the museum would never be wholly comfortable.

The Heritage Lottery Fund HLFF) announced that it was backing a project to convert St Peter's and its surrounding woodland, near Cardross on the north bank of the Clyde, into an arts venue and tourist attraction.

And in the southeast seaside town of Margate, the district council is backing a project to fill empty shop windows with giant papier-mâché props, ranging from supersize shrimps to olive oil bottles.