Sentence examples for backer for from inspiring English sources

One passed along a tip to Scorpio about getting a financial backer for his nonprofit group.

But he was also the backer for the raucous slapstick of Monty Python movies.

Mr Pitta can count on Paulo Maluf, his city's former mayor and his backer for the succession there.

In 1994, American Vogue Editor in Chief Anna Wintour secured a financial backer for a then-destitute Galliano.

Among the mayor's other problems, he never seemed to find a vocal backer for the plan among the Assembly Democrats.

"Had I had a backer, for example," he says, "I would not have come here to Bray.

Two desperate South African men try to recruit a financial backer for their mining plan, with violent results.

Now a backer for the music-streaming service Spotify, he was portrayed by Justin Timberlake in the Oscar-winning 2010 movie, The Social Network.

In competing Europe, after all, Columbus was able to flit from court to court until he finally found a backer for his expedition of 1492.

Traveling here through Florida's conservative Panhandle, President Bush told supporters Tuesday that he had a new backer for his decision to invade Iraq: Senator John Kerry.

This is not a new process, as in the knowledge that Sky would be unlikely to renew, British Cycling has been seeking a new backer for a while.