Sentence examples for were backers of from inspiring English sources

The sports authority, which operates the Meadowlands and Monmouth Park racetracks, were backers of the proposal.

The angriest protesters were backers of Michel Martelly, a popular singer who was edged out of the runoff by the outgoing president's chosen successor.

All were backers of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.The eight denied the government's claim that the PFLP was a terrorist organisation, or that their support for the group involved them in any illegal activity.

But while the Kansas senator was heartened by his private session with the judge, so too were backers of abortion rights, who said they had come away from their meetings convinced that Judge Alito had a healthy respect for legal precedent.

Last month Behance.net, which bills itself as a platform for creative professionals, announced its first round of outside financing, $6.5 million led by Union Square Ventures, who were backers of Kickstarter and Etsy and who were impressed by this five-year-old site's recent growth.

Petro Poroshenko said many current MPs were backers of ousted President Viktor Yanukovych and that the majority of Ukrainians wanted a new parliament.

The county's 800 corrections officers are backers of the new jail.

Several large firms -- including Goldman , Sachs & Company the Equitable Companies, Bear , Stearns & Company and Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter & Company -- are backers of both men.

All the 11 MPs in the group are backers of a second referendum on Brexit.

Among those supporting the rail lines are backers of yet another proposed Meadowlands project to the south of the sports complex.

In the other corner are backers of the Hudson River Park, a five-mile swath of green from Battery Park City to West 59th Street.