Sentence examples for get financial backing for from inspiring English sources

Perhaps this is not such a surprise when actors trade on their name to get financial backing for their films.

A developer trying to get financial backing for a shopping center, Marlin explains, might tell the architect, "I need to see the parking lot full of cars, and I want hundreds of people walking around".

The British retailer Marks & Spencer Group said today that it had called off the $160 million sale of its Kings Super Markets business in the United States to the privately owned food retailer D'Agostino in New York after the group failed to get financial backing for the deal.

It belonged to Roger Khafif, who owned prime oceanfront real estate but couldn't get financial backing for his 2011 construction project.

That means it will get financial backing for operational expenses from Google and its startups will have access to the program's resources, including co-working spaces around the world.

Bullock agreed to star in the sequel to get financial backing for the 1998 drama Hope Floats, and was paid a reported $11 $12.5 million to reprise her role as Annie.

Mr. Mandoki got financial backing for the movie from Federico Arreola, a journalist, entrepreneur and close campaign adviser to Mr. López Obrador.

But Compere, which unlike traditional private equity firms only raises money to finance specific deals, is in the processing of getting financial backing for a bid, these people said.

In the late 1920s, Milton A. Kent, a Westchester life insurance salesman with a big idea, got financial backing for his Kent Automatic Garage, building high-rise garages on 44th east of Third, and at 61st and Columbus, the latter with spectacular polychrome terra cotta.

Available from: Diykyoto.co.uk Inventor and Eel Pie resident Trevor Baylis may have experienced a hard time getting financial backing for his wind-up radio concept - he used to travel the breadth of the UK for pre-arranged pitch meetings only to turned away at the door - but he's certainly been vindicated by its subsequent success.

Over the weekend, the filmmakers hosted a press junket in hopes of getting financial backing for future projects.