On Wednesday Trump taunted Russia, Syria's key backer, to "get ready" for U.S. strikes; the following day, perhaps stung by criticism he was showing his hand, he tweeted that he had "never said when an attack on Syria would take place" and that such an assault might come "not so soon at all".
She had a big shake-up in her campaign staff, with key backers leaving to join Ron Paul's campaign, and her fundraising trailed virtually all of her rivals.
The ultimatum put pressure on EU powers – key backers and parties to the 2015 international agreement to curb Iranian nuclear ambition.
After digging in for the past two months, Maliki now faces a desperate battle to form a government, with his key backer Iran understood to have told him that it no longer supports his bid to lead the country for a third term.
And second, that breaking of new ground was enough for it to attract investment from key backers, specifically Northzone, which was the first VC to fund Spotify itself.
It is interesting to note that one of the key backers of the giving pledge, Warren Buffett, only came to giving later in life, after encouragement from his good friend Bill Gates.
A program at South Carolina State University named for Representative James E. Clyburn, the third-ranking House Democrat and a key backer of legislation to promote new nuclear power plants, stands to benefit from donations by Fluor and Duke Energy, which want to build plants.
Manchin was one of the key backers of Arizona Republican Jeff Flake's efforts to delay a final vote on Kavanaugh and reopen the FBI investigation on Friday.
Walter Kasper, a German cardinal known in media circles as "the pope's theologian" because of his closeness to Francis, has been the key backer of a move to allow more people access to the sacraments.
