Sentence examples for prestige backing from inspiring English sources

Orson Welles had notorious problems with financing, but his three film noirs were well budgeted: The Lady from Shanghai (1947) received top-level, "prestige" backing, while both The Stranger, his most conventional film, and Touch of Evil, an unmistakably personal work, were funded at levels lower but still commensurate with headlining releases.

"It's great that global sprinting has someone like Bolt to bring prestige back to track and field," he said.

In the wake of Sacasa's announcement, Mexico sided with Sacasa; the United States, involved in a dispute with Mexico and determined to prevent Mexico from gaining the prestige of backing a winning candidate, supported Díaz.

With that prestige to back him, relying on his dominant personality, and building on the foundations of the brilliant civilization developed in China by the preceding Song dynasty (960 1279), Kublai could maintain the illusion for a while that Mongol supremacy was firmly based.

Because of prestige and backed up by a sound financial position, the director and supervisory board continued the project and step by step saw their initially planned €24 million budget, increase to more than €65 million and to €136 million in 2007.

Nixon lost some prestige because he backed losers in this primary.

Patriotic critics railed against Rank's appetite for backing big-budget prestige movies at the expense of lower-budgeted British films that could have recouped their costs in the domestic market.

It was for Prestige that he recorded most frequently, backing every significant modernist of the day during the late 1950s.

He lent his prestige and political influence to numerous campaigns for the normalization of Jewish life in France and Algeria, backing the enfranchisement of North African Jews.

Spanish players have lost their fear of travelling in Europe, backed by the prestige of being world champions.

In a blow to Britain's financial services sector and the prestige of the City, Schäuble backed demands for London to lose its euro-clearing business.