They spent big money on epics filmed in Rome's Cinecittà, and bankrolled a British mini-renaissance after Time magazine's instant mythologisation of Swinging London in its famous 1965 cover story.
As things stand in the evil empire, these two very disparate rebel factions – Wolves are bankrolled by Volkwagen whereas Gladbach have followed Dortmund's blueprint to grow organically, by sheer virtue of employing a superb coach in Lucien Favre and very good players – are both only four points adrift.
Villas-Boas's representative, Carlos Goncalves, listened over the weekend to the proposals of PSG, who are bankrolled by Qatar Sports Investments, but Villas-Boas did not give them the encouragement that they wanted.
Last month, Ihor Kolomoisky, who bankrolled pro-Kiev volunteer battalions in eastern Ukraine, was removed from his post of governor of Dnipropetrovsk.
The remark drew a stern rebuke from Erdoğan, who reminded the leader that it was Turkey that bankrolled the breakaway republic and guaranteed its security through the presence of some 35,000 mainland troops.
Before the election he was "bankrolled" (in the words of those arch-socialists at the Telegraph and the Daily Mail) by John Nash, the then chairman of private healthcare firm Care UK, who handed him £21,000 to run his private office.
A not-for-profit company linked to a friend and employee of Michael Hintze, the Tory party donor and multimillionaire hedge fund boss, is alleged to have bankrolled the jet-set lifestyle of Werritty.
They even spin the fact that they are bankrolled by that ultimate vested interest – the British ruling class – into a positive.
In the last week of the campaign, people in the yes campaign have accused their opponents of being bankrolled by evangelical Christian groups in the US, a claim they deny and which, if true, would be illegal.
For a long time they have only existed as loss-leaders bankrolled by much bigger companies, aiming at wider markets.Mr Saint Laurent, far from being an exception, is typical.
She has immense wealth from the Bridgestone family tyre fortune, which has bankrolled the political careers of both Kunio and Yukio.
