Sentence examples for underwrite ventures from inspiring English sources

His money has helped underwrite ventures such as the Musk Mars Desert Observatory telescope located within a simulated Mars environment in southern Utah, where Martian acolytes try out waste-incinerating toilets and homemade space helmets reportedly fashioned out of trash can lids.

Louise sent her friends, however, and the doyennes of Chicago society loyally helped to underwrite the ventures of her prodigy.

The idea took root and soon developed into a financial instrument that other businesses adopted to underwrite their ventures.

That cash is not being used to expand operations, train new workers, underwrite new ventures, or spark innovation".

Its founding editor, a revered left-wing journalist named Joseph Samaha, found a London-based investment banker to underwrite the venture in 2006 while promising not to interfere with editorial content.

But it would land a big burden on the taxpayers of Manchester, as the council is underwriting the venture.

That means research and development costs previously underwritten by venture capitalists are now showing up on Cisco's balance sheet.

The two firms are the latest global banks to win the right to form joint ventures to underwrite stock and bond offerings in China.

GROWING numbers of investment firms are quietly financing promising hedge fund managers, much as venture capitalists underwrite risky start-ups in the hope that some will strike it rich.

The delivery of tens of thousands of alumni signatures supporting Cornell's bid, the release of ambitious energy efficiency plans for a campus on Roosevelt Island, a stunning $350 million gift to underwrite construction, a $150 million venture fund for start-up businesses -- each was leaked on a carefully constructed timetable.

"Ironically," Hatfield writes, "the money used to underwrite the first business venture of a future president may have been derived, at least in part, from the family fortune of Osama bin Laden".