Sentence examples for backing to run from inspiring English sources

"The reality is you have to have party backing to run for office," he said.

Mr. Peres, in turn, sought but did not receive the leftist Meretz Party's backing to run as a third candidate in the election.

On the Democratic side, Assemblyman Thomas P. DiNapoli, the former head of the county Democratic Committee, won the party's backing to run for county executive.

The group will show the automaker that it has adequate financial backing to run Rover, which cost BMW $6 billion in six years, a Phoenix supporter said.

Mr. Venizelos, who mounted a strong but unsuccessful challenge to Mr. Papandreou for the party leadership in 2007, was unopposed this time after two rivals failed to attract adequate backing to run.

The lead plaintiff is Margarita López Torres, now the Brooklyn Surrogate Court judge, who as an elected Civil Court judge tried unsuccessfully to get the Brooklyn Democratic Party's backing to run for State Supreme Court.

He turned his back to run, and a wave reached his shoulders, swept over his head.

The question: Would Mr. Gates, the Microsoft chairman, consider going back to run the company?

"He wanted his backs to run, block and catch," Parcells said.

After four years at Ditcheat, Fry was posted back to run the satellite yard.

So impressive was his performance that he was later called back to run Bain itself.