Sentence examples for funded him from inspiring English sources

"We funded him as far as we can," he said, adding that Mr. Thomas has resisted fresh rounds of venture capital to avoid ceding control.

He had finally found peace in his marriage in 2005 to Helen Montgomery, even taking Helen's surname, to the confusion of the benefits department that funded him.

"This guy up in Arbroath heard him singing in the church one day... and funded him to go to Milan (to train as an opera singer).

Golf got over Tiger, partly because Nike, which had funded him to mega-wealth since 1996, stood by him – and three years later extended his contract until 2018.

The Russian was a nuclear engineer in the pay of the CIA, which had arranged for him to become an American citizen and funded him to the tune of $5,000 a month.

It also added to the pressure on Zuma's beleaguered presidency, with the opposition calling on him to step down after the report painted him as a reckless big spender dependent on benefactors who funded him to the tune of R7m.

Are they funding him?

I asked if that would keep the C.P.A. from funding him.

They are no longer helping him financially, he says, now that his viewer base is large enough to fund him.

No one is funding him, no one is backing him to do this.

Even the Germans - who were funding him from 1936 - found him "a pestiferous bore".