Instead, he has been labelled as "addicted" to private jets, was named in the Panama Papers which alleged financial misdoing, and was accused of backing down on pledges to make Fifa more transparent by Prince Ali.
Still, she stopped short of pledging to back Pelosi for the speaker's post should Democrats win the House majority, saying she would wait to decide based on the available candidates.
An ECB pledge of unlimited backing for solvent governments would have had a far better chance of solving the crisis months ago, and remains the best option today.At this summit Europe's leaders had hoped to prove that their resolve to back the euro was greater than the markets' capacity to bet against it.
New French financing was secured from production company Mezzanine Film, and in Hungary, the Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation (MMKA) and the Minister of Culture pledged to back the production if a guarantee could be made that the film would be finished safely.
Hours later, Putin, 65, was feted by his supporters, almost 700 of whom pledged to back him for re-election ― above the minimum 500 required to initiate a presidential bid.
In his budget speech George Osborne, the proudly free-market chancellor of the exchequer, pledged to "back sectors that are global successes".
Before guests tucked into quail eggs atop vegetarian tartare, they listened to speeches by Tim Armstrong, the chairman of America Online, who pledged to back the museum forever, and Brooke Garber Neidich, a trustee, who toasted the crowd for raising $2.7 million.
Some of these investments could be part of Omidyar's $30 million pledge towards backing high-impact entrepreneurs in emerging markets, specifically Sub-Saharan Africa and India.
Tamarod officially pledged to back Mr Sisi, but some of its leaders will support Mr Sabahi.
Fotis Kouvelis, leader of the small Democratic Left, has also pledged to back the government.
