Sentence examples for bankrolled him from inspiring English sources

The ploy worked; J. P. Morgan bankrolled him.

How the execs who had bankrolled him must have laughed.

Mr Modi may be beholden to the businessmen who bankrolled him, but the voters want him to tackle cronyism.

Certainly, Harriet Shaw Weaver, the Englishwoman who bankrolled him and read work in progress and dealt with his myriad problems between 1914 and his death, emerges here as a woman of intelligence, patience and immense generosity.

"If Mobutu was being taken to court, his lawyers would argue, 'Well, why not the United States government and France and Belgium, who bankrolled him?" asked Salih Booker, executive director of Africa Action, an advocacy group in Washington.

The academy bankrolled him with a loan of 200,000 renminbi (the equivalent then of $80,000)–most of which Liu quickly lost in a swindle.

He was not so endowed, coming from a family in no position to bankroll him.

What if, the friend proposed, SBC's wireless phone venture, Cingular Wireless, helped to bankroll him in the auction?

With economic uncertainty affecting charitable giving, a potential big donor like Mr. Messier with a major company bankrolling him is a prime target for nonprofit institutions.

A revolutionary in his youth, Wagner escaped to Zurich, only to be forced to move on when the businessman bankrolling him was about to uncover Wagner's affair with his wife.

Can he weather the protests, grind the demonstrators down, rely on his secret police and security forces, on some of the most powerful oligarchs in the country who bankroll him and control much of the media?