Sentence examples for for having backed from inspiring English sources

TWELVE years ago, an ambitious young French politician was cast aside by the newly elected president, Jacques Chirac, for having backed a rival candidate.

In particular, the political party leading the movement, the Rally for Culture and Democracy, is distrusted for having backed the army's brutal campaign against the Islamists in the 1990s.

In the front row, alongside his wife, brother, and sister, sat his parents, to whom he paid tribute for having "backed me up and let me go in my own direction".

If giving gongs to Sondheim now feels like complimenting Novak Djokovic on his volley, the Oliviers deserve credit for having backed the composer even when he was considered an expensive luxury by commercial producers.

Mr Roh, along with much of his administration, cut his teeth opposing successive military dictators, and now that a loud and liberal democracy thrives in South Korea, America has not been wholly forgiven for having backed those military thugs in their day.

Chirac, who once considered Sarkozy his heir apparent, now finds him so distasteful (not to mention treacherous, for having backed another candidate at their party's nominating Convention twelve years ago) that he murmured one brief, chilly endorsement, late in March, and has not mentioned Sarkozy in public since then.

The drug watchdog said on Friday that its Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use had backed Xarelto for the prevention of blood clots after hip or knee surgery.

The California Teachers Association, for instance, has backed incentives for districts to reduce class sizes -- and hire more teachers.

Mr. Haskins, for instance, has backed Mr. Romney.

A coalition of Egyptian opposition groups, the Democratic Alliance for Egypt, has backed it.

Tea Party Patriots, for instance, had backed Representative Jack Kingston of Georgia to be chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee.