The word "sponsor" is correct and usable in written English. You can use it when someone provides financial or material support for an event, activity, person, or organization. For example: The company will be sponsoring this year's charity race.
The evening is part of the Tate & Egg Live performance series, of which the Guardian is media sponsor.
Until McIlroy and Dubai Duty Free stepped forward, this was a tournament minus a sponsor and, essentially, direction.
Thus, Reid is only the fourth poet to win the overall Costa (or Whitbread as it was known under its earlier sponsor) and of those four, three have been honoured for elegies.
Jimmy's chances to become one of the world's greatest sprinters would be much better if he could stay in the UK and find someone to sponsor his training.
Nevada Republican Dean Heller, a co-sponsor of the bill, told reporters early on Friday: "We're losing the 'politics of going home' argument with our conference".
When asked on ABC radio if Labor would continue with its plans to introduce the private members' bill, the deputy leader and bill co-sponsor Tanya Plibersek said, "certainly we will".
Seeking to address that very problem, Harms and his fellow caddies last year identified one so-called injustice – the sponsor-filled bibs every caddie wears, sans payment – and asked the Tour to remedy the situation.
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