Sentence examples for that stood behind from inspiring English sources
The inevitable bust led to enormous financial difficulties not just for the banks that had lent the money but for the governments that stood behind them.
Mr. Romney also took a playful swipe at the stagecraft of the Democratic convention four years ago, especially a row of giant white columns that stood behind Mr. Obama as he accepted his party's nomination.
It assumed that the individual alone was bringing in the revenue, and disregarded two important factors: the shareholders' capital that stood behind the business; and the brand or franchise of the firm for which the individual was working.Competition and co-operationRegulators attacking the banks may not stop at stripping out their equity research.
"These lawsuits will complete a picture of the Holocaust that has never before been fully developed about the willing accomplices and companies that stood behind the direct participants," said Michael Hausfeld, a class-action lawyer from Washington who reached a landmark $140 million settlement with Texaco in 1996 over racial discrimination.
He referred to the protesters as a Greek chorus, went on to recall the grandiose Greek columns that stood behind Obama when he accepted the Democratic nomination in Denver, in 2008, and finally arrived at the Greek fiscal crisis and how the Obama Administration was leading America in that direction.
"You see the same people standing behind McCain that stood behind President Bush".
Ultimately the West rests on one great idea and one set of actions, one that stands behind and unites the six great strands of Western civilization.
The bonds currently reference an MBIA subsidiary that stands behind lots of mortgage-backed securities.
The countries that stand behind the rich world's other main currencies (the dollar, the yen and the pound) have troubles of their own.
It is this reasoning that stands behind the assertion that pounds of pure heroin seized the Bronx in 1967 had a poten tial street value of $2.7‐million.
Furthermore, the campaign to cast Mr. Bush as a bumbling child ignores the very grown-up machine that stands behind him.
