Sentence examples for economic benefactor from inspiring English sources

North Korea has appeared remarkably cavalier in its dealings with its chief economic benefactor in the last few months.

With the death of Venezuela's Hugo Chávez in 2013, Fidel Castro lost his political protege and Cuba's main economic benefactor.

Park said China, North Korea's main ally and economic benefactor, would be critical in securing an effective Security Council resolution.

But it is still Pyongyang's main economic benefactor and has shown a willingness to exploit loopholes in the sanctions.

At the same time, he said, Myanmar has to be careful of China, its chief economic benefactor but unpopular among the Myanmar public.

In the wake of the visit, China — the North's economic benefactor — might make some humanitarian gestures, like increasing food aid after it had been curtailed, Mr. Zhu said.

Until now, it has been possible for North Korea's two chief economic benefactors, China and South Korea, to intimate that American intransigence is chiefly to blame for the six-party talks being stalled.

All the states that Indiana competes with for economic benefactors will happily tolerate Indiana's law all the way to the bank.

Despite this expensive military insurance policy, South Korea is perhaps North Korea's best benefactor, economic partner and business promoter.

For the city, Google is part economic engine, part benefactor and a soon-to-be real-estate developer with an opportunistic eye for underused assets — like, say the landing strip at Moffett Field, a former Navy air station, where jets of Google executives now come and go.

China, the North's economic and political benefactor, which also maintains close commercial ties to the South, appealed to both sides to remain calm and "to do more to contribute to peace and stability on the peninsula," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said.