Sentence examples for main benefactor from inspiring English sources

The main benefactor was Russia.

Some have even questioned the motives of the project's main benefactor.

The reason, according to Pete DeBusk, a retired businessman and the school's main benefactor, is the A.B.A. standards.

Williams, the chief operating officer, said Wednesday he is confident the museum's main benefactor is committed to its survival.

The National Grand Opera folded during the 1995 season after its founder and main benefactor, Michael Scuderi, died.

It was named Mark Light Field by the main benefactor to honor his son, who died of muscular dystrophy.

Venezuela's oil flows to Russia and China — its main benefactors — have been largely to pay off loans.

By day three of construction, the mining industry was accusing the university of ingratitude towards one of its main benefactors – in what some have seen as a veiled threat to cut funding.

"Madonna and Child Enthroned With Ss Zenobius, John the Baptist, Reparta and John the Evangelist" was donated to the society in 1866 by Thomas Jefferson Bryan, a philanthropist who was one of the institution's main benefactors.

Buscombe also reveals that Express Newspapers' proprietor, Richard Desmond - who in effect pulled his papers out of the PCC following a dispute with the Newspaper Publishers Association, one of PressBof's, main benefactors - is now "back on board".

(One of the school's main benefactors was Armand Hammer, the former chairman of Occidental Petroleum, whose 1990 obituary in the Times avoided the posthumous parallax by noting an improper payment to a Soviet Minister of Culture and the suit brought by his own wife after he managed to abscond with part of her art collection).