(n.) One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs a person or thing in a contest.
Example Sentences:
(1) The breakdown of answers to both questions revealed a significant partisan divide depending on people’s voting intention, with Labor supporters much more likely than Coalition backers to see the commission as a political attack and Heydon as conflicted.
(2) Gavin Andresen, formerly the chief scientist at the currency’s guiding body, the Bitcoin Foundation, had been the most important backer of the man who would be Satoshi.
(3) Casino Royale, whose rights had been individually sold off by Fleming in 1955, eventually passed to Eon in 1999 as a result of an agreement between Eon’s backers MGM and rival Hollywood studio Sony – thereby clearing the way for the 2006 version.
(4) Economy Clegg, Alexander and Laws have been determined backers of Osborne's austerity plan and have not been derailed from that view by claims that deep public sector cuts have damaged growth.
(5) Backer's cyst, branchial cyst, lymphangioma, and abscess.
(6) We had no financial backer and were not part of an education chain or religious group.
(7) Even if Morgan is caught, people fear that his powerful backers in the army will find another militia to continue poaching and stealing gold.
(8) Human Rights Watch called on the Afghan government and its international backers to do more to hold the security forces to account.
(9) The business has also attracted reputable financial backers, including three of the core supporters of Facebook — Greylock, Accel and Meritech.
(10) However, Eagle’s backers have insisted she has more signatures than the 20% of the parliamentary party needed to launch a challenge, and is in a “holding pattern”.
(11) Whether Creepy Uncle Sam and his creepier backers will succeed in bringing down the Affordable Care Act (ACA) remains to be seen, but the prognosis is not good.
(12) The official said the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, a bloc of African countries which has been leading peace efforts between backers of the nation’s president, Salva Kiir, and rebel leader Riek Machar, had set a 17 August deadline for both sides to accept a final offer.
(13) Cimarosa's break with the rules of omertà appears to vindicate the policy of asset seizures, which have cut Messina Denaro's cash flow and forced him to squeeze his backers harder for funds.
(14) But in a veiled reference to those in the Conservative party and their backers in the rightwing press pushing for a hard Brexit, he implied that there were people in the UK who still had to catch up.
(15) EU referendum: 250 business leaders sign up as backers of Vote Leave Read more ”Remain” campaigners accused Vote Leave of changing its position on the NHS, arguing that the group’s chief executive, Matthew Elliott, had supported spending cuts, opposed ringfencing of the NHS and proposed more privatisation in the past.
(16) Attempts by backers of the rebels and the government to orchestrate a population swap have yet to succeed, but an evacuation of the wounded was agreed in late December.
(17) Warner Bros has moved to reimburse backers whose money helped get the high-profile crowdfunded movie Veronica Mars into cinemas after some were unable to satisfactorily download their promised copy of the finished feature .
(18) The revelation of the unusual last-minute attempted appointment comes as tensions between the Turnbull government and the former prime minister and his backers reach boiling point.
(19) Robert Davies, another original investor, also a financial backer of Swansea’s Ospreys rugby union region which shares the Liberty Stadium, also has a 10.5% stake.
(20) Turkey , a key backer of the opposition, called for an end to Russian airstrikes in the aftermath of the agreement in Munich.
Barker
Definition:
(n.) An animal that barks; hence, any one who clamors unreasonably.
(n.) One who stands at the doors of shops to urg/ passers by to make purchases.
(n.) A pistol.
(n.) The spotted redshank.
(n.) One who strips trees of their bark.
Example Sentences:
(1) "While I wouldn't necessarily concur with all the specific recommendations of the report," Barker said, "there is one clear message that I do agree with: that solar has far more potential than has previously been thought."
(2) Most significantly, it has delegated too much to the Bank of England, which next year will for the first time have a governor appointed for an eight-year term, into a very powerful unelected role," Barker said.
(3) The new companies to be given ministerial buddies – but not yet publicly disclosed – include the property firms Atkins and Balfour Beatty, which have been paired with climate change minister Greg Barker, who is overseeing work on the government's green deal and zero-carbon homes programmes.
(4) It was on the set of The Frost Report that production staff began to refer to Barker and Corbett as "the two Ronnies", while the writing team included Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, and Eric Idle – every Monty Python member bar Terry Gilliam – as well as Marty Feldman and lead writer Antony Jay, who went on to create Yes, Minister.
(5) Microgeneration like home wind and solar panels will not be covered by the project, but could be marketed by selling companies alongside the core efficiency measures, said Barker.
(6) The rates "will come down", Barker confirmed when we spoke last week.
(7) Each week, Frost's script, the sketches and topical songs would riff on a single theme - for example class, when John Cleese, Corbett and Barker appeared in one of the most famous sketches in the annals of British comedy.
(8) Barker also announced a new comedy, Nurse, based on the eponymous BBC Radio 4 series.
(9) At the moment the club needs a long term strategy but has an owner with a short term view - Al Reading It’s been one huge wet lettuce of a season Ben Barker, Reading fan It’s been one huge wet lettuce of a season.
(10) Speaking about Bacon, Barker said: “[He] speaks to the soul.
(11) The Shonan Maru No 2 tailed the Bob Barker, a Sea Shepherd vessel, for two days earlier this week, according to the group.
(12) As Greg Barker told me last week , "the focus of the current scheme needs to be on the small scale, to get the maximum number of installations".
(13) It is a far cry from Barker's promise of: "A radical new approach to home energy improvement, moving away from pepper potting individual measures to whole house or property solutions."
(14) He beat his fellow MSP, Richard Barker, and Glasgow city council leader, Gordon Matheson.
(15) Mike Reiss (@MikeReiss) Patriots inactives: DL Sopoaga, CB Green, G Barker, TE Williams, DE Bequette, WR Thompkins, LB Beauharnais.
(16) Energy and climate change minister Greg Barker welcomed an increase in the number of people having their homes assessed for the green deal .
(17) The interim report from the five-strong Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England , chaired by Kate Barker, a former Bank of England economist, has been published as all three main parties decide how to approach the issue of social care in their election manifestos.
(18) Read the biographies - Winifred Gérin, Juliet Barker and, in particular, Lucasta Miller - and you can begin to discern a more formidable woman who could cope with the world rather better than the image of the doomed Emily might suggest.
(19) (1966), worked with Simpson, Arnold Wesker and John Arden , and, having staged Howard Barker ’s Cheek in 1970, collaborated with him in 1986 on the audacious Women Beware Women, adapting Middleton’s Jacobean original with poisonous puritanism.
(20) Following the physiological investigation, the muscle was fixed and stained according to the method of Barker and Ip (J.