(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.
Packer
Definition:
(n.) A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation; as, a pork packer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Every Indigenous person has felt it Read more But on Friday he received the high-profile support of billionaire James Packer who said the booing had made him “ashamed to be Australian”.
(2) The cardiac risk of cocaine body packing was studied by means of continuous ECG monitoring in 13 cocaine body-packers during spontaneous elimination.
(3) Recent winners such as the Ravens, Giants, Packers and Steelers typically stayed away from free agents, and fans are catching on.
(4) And one way or another, he had led his team to victory over the Packers for a third time in the past calendar year.
(5) To determine the etiologic role of strenuous manual tasks in relation to epicondylitis, three clinical cross-sectional examinations were performed on meatcutters (N = 102), sausage makers (N = 125), packers (N = 150), and workers in nonstrenuous tasks (N = 332).
(6) There will be plenty of time for Packers and 49ers, I promise.
(7) Updated at 2.52am GMT 12.25am GMT 49ers 20-17 Packers, 7:58 4th quarter Big 3rd down and it's Kuhn, again, making a play.
(8) 11.54pm GMT 49ers 13-10 Packers, 2:56 3rd quarter The 49ers are held again.
(9) Increasing reports of GABHS skin infections in meat packers suggest that this occupational risk may be more common than is realized.
(10) 4.13am GMT 49ers 38 - Packers 24, 4:13 4th quarter On 4th & 1 on the GB 18, Kaepernick dupes the Packer line into jumping offsides...and they do!
(11) Switching to the use of electronic cash registers has been shown to have only limited efficacy due to increased operation speed, and high-speed complex finger and hand movements of packer operators have also proven to be as hazardous as key-board operations.
(12) This is a tough loss for the Packers franchise without a doubt.
(13) The Bishop of Ripon, John Packer, said: "It cannot be right for the cap to be the same for a childless couple as for a couple with children.
(14) By then, Packer had secured for three years the television rights he wanted, and then a 10-year deal to market the game in Australia: he had no further need of World Series Cricket.
(15) The project's driving force, Toby Young, shared a stage with the mayor of London, Boris Johnson , and the headteacher, Thomas Packer.
(16) He recalled an incident at a Packers game a few years ago, when he stood up and vocally scolded a fan behind him who had called a Chicago Bears player a faggot.
(17) Updated at 2.01pm GMT 3.16am GMT Quarterback Colin Kaepernick of the San Francisco 49ers is having his way with the Green Bay Packers defense and out playing Aaron Rodgers.
(18) 49ers 38 - Packers 24, 14:57 4th quarter Gore plows though, and now Green Bay are in some serious trouble.
(19) By the time he reached the Super Bowl, Kaepernick proved that he was the right guy to start for his team in the postseason by first defeating Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers in a high scoring affair and then beating Matt Ryan and the Atlanta Falcons in a game where he pulled off the second half comeback drive that he just missed this time around.
(20) The Packers declined to comment, but NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told the Journal-Sentinel: "We respect that reasonable people may have differing views.