Sentence examples for main funder of from inspiring English sources
The owner of L'Oréal was also a main funder of the fascist party in France, and antisemitic.
The main funder of the campaign for Prop 8 was the Mormon Church of Latterday Saints, based in Utah, which donated around $10m to the campaign.
FACT Proposition 13, by limiting local property taxes so dramatically, forced the state to step in as the main funder of many services.
Indeed, NASAs science budget is, he says, almost as big as that of the National Science Foundation, Americas main funder of non-medical research.
Carlos Slim was said to be the main funder of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the populist leader of the Mexican left.
At the time the oil company was the main funder of dozens of front groups and researchers rubbishing any link between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change – or denying climate change was occurring at all.
Arts Council England, Legacy Trust UK and the Olympic Lottery Distributor were the main funders of the Cultural Olympiad and the London 2012 Festival.
The BBC is one of the four main funders of the competition, and should withdraw their contribution until a time when there is a fair voting system".
Bateson's study, commissioned by the main funders of research using animals in the UK – the Medical Research Council, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, and the Wellcome Trust – looked at 67 academic projects carried out between 1996 and 2006, which involved around 3,000 monkeys.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust and the UK Department for International Development (DfID) are the main funders of the programme, which is a joint initiative of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) and the African Academy of Sciences AASS).
Really? 4. How could the good Syrian rebels have triumphed in Syria when the main funders of so many rebel groups there — Qatar and Saudi Arabia — are Sunni fundamentalist monarchies that oppose the very sort of democratic, pluralistic politics in their own countries that the decent Syrian rebels aspire to build in Syria? 5.
