Sentence examples for main backer from inspiring English sources

Intel has been a main backer.

Last month, it lost its main backer and folded.

(French-based giant Studiocanal is the main backer this time).

Less than 5% of voters support the Communist Party, the main backer of France's biggest union.

Jacques Chirac, the French president, who is his main backer at home, is weakened.

China, the regime's main backer, is best placed to apply it but appears reluctant.

Beijing is widely regarded as the main backer of that murderous government in the 1970's.

The Hamas leadership has refused to express support for Mr. Assad despite pressure from Iran, a main backer of Hamas.

Even today, though China is North Korea's main backer, the South is reluctant to antagonise the government in Beijing.

He was said to be LURD's main backer during the war; Mrs Conneh was said to be his "spiritual adviser".

But if so, they risk annoying the Pakistani government, their main backer, which is now squeezed from two sides.