Sentence examples for crucial backing from inspiring English sources

This was hardly surprising, since Pakistan gave crucial backing to the Taliban in its rise to power after 1994.

In particular, the idea has yet to win the crucial backing of activists in the community development sector.

He and Ms. Merkel, Europe's leading advocate for austerity, gave crucial backing to a proposal by Canada's prime minister, Stephen Harper, to set out deficit-reduction targets.

When writers joined they were given a tape recorder for phone calls, to give them crucial backing when they were hauled into court.

Nor, for all the momentum he could generate in the north, is it clear he would get crucial backing in the Pushtun-dominated south of Afghanistan.

He received crucial backing from big business groups including the US Chamber of Commerce and organizations affiliated with the Koch Brothers.

They would also have known the crucial back story that Handel and his librettist, Samuel Humphreys, left out.

It didn't seem crucial back in the 1990s, and not enough people (me included!) have looked up to notice that things have changed.

"If incomes are rising, but people aren't spending, it tells you that the consumer has some ammunition for more spending during the crucial back-to-school season," said Quincy Krosby, market strategist with Prudential Financial.

Since many technology stock bulls were counting on a pickup in chip orders ahead of the crucial back-to-school season, the company's announcement took the wind out of technology stocks.

Their fighting ability is getting close to where it needs to be, but the crucial back end of the army — the logistics and supply teams that get bullets, fuel, food and water to where they need to be — is woefully unready, American and even some Afghan officers say.