Sentence examples for backed at the time from inspiring English sources

His remarks were tentatively backed at the time by the ISPA, who agreed that law enforcers should have "reasonable access to data" but warned that legislation should include appropriate safeguards.

He bought the company for $1.8 billion after a long, hostile takeover battle that put him on corporate America's map as a tenacious investor to be feared; he was backed at the time by Michael R. Milken's seemingly bottomless supply of junk bonds.

A military coup in Brazil in 1964, backed at the time by the United States, led to the creation of the first of a series of brutal military dictatorships across South America, which engaged in widespread human rights abuses in what has sometimes been called "The Dirty War" against perceived enemies of the state.

No doubt, his predecessor's decision to go to war which we mistakenly backed at the time was a disaster.

Quist backed Sanders at the time, and the Vermont senator has since returned the favor.

You can also look back at the time you ate all the cake and left none for anyone else.

Six were off sick due to back pain at the time of the interview, two for more than six months.

There was none of that back at the time".

Alice Paul was a major figure in the American suffragist movement, back at the time of the First World War.

Members of the board did not push back at the time.

I have asked this of the people who were running Yahoo back at the time when we started.