Sentence examples for was a backer from inspiring English sources

Rubin was a backer of the county's merit-based incarceration program, in which motivated inmates study while in jail to prepare for life after release.

He was a backer of Thomas Edison, and of Adolph S. Ochs with his fledgling New York Times.

Mr. Angelides scoffed at suggestions that Calpers had made the investments because Mr. Burkle was a backer of the Democratic Party.

"The window for these projects is very short," said Phil Quartararo, the former president of Warner Brothers Records, who hired Mr. Blue in 2000 and was a backer of Dry Cell before he left the label in May.

But by this time Mr Bercow had begun dropping his hard-right baggage, and when Mr Hague fell on his sword at the 2001 general election, Mr Bercow was a backer and outspoken advocate for Michael Portillo's leadership bid.

The difference, he argued, was that ShoreBank did it the "old-fashioned way"—getting to know the borrower and securing a significant down payment against a realistically-valued property.In March 2009 ShoreBank was a backer of a new Global Alliance for Banking on Values, along with Triodos Bank of the Netherlands, BRAC of Bangladesh and others.

Almost no major Republican from his home state of Pennsylvania is a backer.

All he needs is a backer with some real money to spend, he says.

His mother, Jackie Bezos, has long been a backer of early-childhood education through the Bezos Family Foundation.

Google Ventures is a backer, and Apple's former top lawyer for mergers and acquisitions is a co-founder.

Even though ABC is not thought to be a backer of the big developers, it could suffer.