The News Corporation, with the backing of partners like Microsoft and Liberty Media would inject as much as $7 million in cash to appease G.M.'s want to shore up its balance sheet.
Others, like David O'Leary of Yonkers, have the full backing of his partner's family and thus fit Mr. Feinberg's definition of an easy claim to adjudicate.
What can be seen from this behavior is that most of the parallel transmissions only became possible, since the concurrent transmissions in the communication vicinity backed of and the associated partners are close.
Now, with the backing of two partners, he serves three meals a day and brunch on weekends, ending the day with a dinner of classic bistro offerings — mussels, skirt steak — that attracts a wider range of locals.
When Mr. Dell made his bid to acquire his firm in February, with the backing of Silver Lake Partners, he made it clear that he, too, believed that it would be better to work on a turnaround of the company behind closed doors.
She described the DCT as a "new and innovative service delivery model" which had won the backing of "key partners" in Doncaster.
Instead of backing partners into a corner by insisting on changes, this kind of understanding often leads to uncoerced changes that are more lasting and more in tune with each partner's core personality and behaviors.
One brief moment, when a sultry Oxana Panchenko rides off stage on the back of her partner, as if astride a wild panther, gives us a snapshot of what kind of party this closing section could have been.
If we modernise and democratise the awards system, it would mean that no spouse of an awarded person would receive a title off the back of their partner's achievements.
Maybe you've got the Kama Sutra down like the back of your partner's… hand; maybe you've used that internet connection to amass a few external drives full of "training material".
