Sentence examples for backing him on from inspiring English sources

Kenny Chesney had the Wailers reggae band backing him on "Everybody Wants To Go to Heaven," and segued it into a Bob Marley song, "Three Little Birds".

Manuel Cortes, the union's general secretary, said: "Jeremy has a set of policies and values which will benefit working people and we will be backing him on the basis.

DJ Mustard has essentially gifted this brittle, sinister, potent sound to a handful of Los Angeles rappers, the most visible of whom is YG, who performed at the Knitting Factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Thursday night, with DJ Mustard backing him on the turntables.

The backing troupe for the slick, almost doo-wop-influenced singer Luis Miguel del Amargue, in matching tight black T-shirts, injected small doses of humor into its performance, crouching on the floor before the singer took to the stage and backing him on synchronized dance routines.

Crazy Horse come and go as he fancies, Pearl Jam popped up for an album, so maybe it shouldn't have been surprising that Booker T & the MGs – arguably the greatest of all backing bands, as well as stars in their own right – popped up alongside Young on the 1993 album Are You Passionate? as well as backing him on that year's tour.

Artists everywhere took notice when Louis C.K. sold his stand-up special and show tickets without a network backing him on the promotion and distribution.

Will history back him on Iraq?

On Saturday, the Palestinian leadership backed him on that stand.

And he is looking for investors to back him on a restaurant on the Camden waterfront.

That year, he launched his own outfit, the appropriately named Wildabouts, to back him on Blaster, his fourth solo album.

Mr. Singh threatened to resign if the Congress Party did not back him on the deal — which it promptly did.