Brazil ended talks for a 34-country Free-Trade Area of the Americas involving the United States, and instead sponsored the South American Union (UNASUL in Portuguese) as a forum for political co-operation.
In a surprising last-minute switch, Representative Bob Ney, an Ohio Republican who had planned to put forward a limit on soft money but not an outright ban, instead sponsored a version of the Shays-Meehan bill from a few years ago.
Kraft, which had removed its in-store displays with Earnhardt's image, instead sponsored a new team car.
Instead of sponsoring roles for next season's operas, patrons are now invited to sponsor body parts.
Worried by Rwanda's worsening human-rights record, the West began to withhold aid.So Mr Kagame has turned on the general, and Rwanda may now settle for an informal sphere of influence in North Kivu instead of sponsoring local militias.
Another bold move was that, instead of sponsoring the annual World Aids Day exhibition, the money budgeted for the event will be used to buy drugs for HIV patients.
And instead of sponsoring any more big walks, Fannie Mae has shifted its focus to helping organize much smaller, community-based walks in cities around the country.
And it's also eliminating Sponsored Story units and instead integrating Sponsored Story into a number of other ad units — instead of allowing advertisers to buy a Sponsored Story, Facebook will automatically add "social context" to an ad whenever such context exists.
Meg Whitman, eBay's boss, explained that one rationale for the deal was to "monetise" Skype's internet telephony by placing little Skype "buttons" on web pages instead of sponsored text links.
The United States, the major supplier of arms and equipment to the Nationalists, at first had discouraged the Nationalists from military intervention in Manchuria, opting instead to sponsor negotiations aimed at peacefully resolving the differences between the Nationalists and communists.
