Sentence examples for main backer of from inspiring English sources

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

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.

Mr Putin was also the main backer of Ukraine's president, Viktor Yanukovych, in November 2004, when his rigged election was overturned in the orange revolution.

The main backer of the company, which is thought to have already invested around $40m £26mm) in Somalia, is the Russian oil billionaire Alexander Djaparidze.

The opposition is divided, and Russia, the main backer of Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, is at loggerheads with the Syrian opposition's Western and Arab supporters.

The escalating violence there has taken on all the trappings of a proxy war that threatens to destabilize the entire region, with Iran among the main backers of the Assad government and Saudi Arabia and Turkey among the main backers of the rebels.

Saudi Arabia is one of the main backers of the resistance, which has been vying for influence with Qatar.

Supporters of President Hipolito Mejia were the main backers of the removal of the term limit but he says he opposes the change and will not run again.

Mr. Qadri indicated that he had killed the Punjab governor, Salman Taseer, because he was among the main backers of efforts to ease the laws.

Turkey has been one of the main backers of the uprising against the Syrian president, Bashar Assad, and is hosting some 2.7 million Syrian refugees.