(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.
Sponsor
Definition:
(n.) One who binds himself to answer for another, and is responsible for his default; a surety.
(n.) One who at the baptism of an infant professore the christian faith in its name, and guarantees its religious education; a godfather or godmother.
Example Sentences:
(1) They also said no surplus that built up in the scheme, which runs at a £700m deficit, would be paid to any “sponsor or employer” under any circumstances.
(2) The conference was held from December 3 to 5, 1990 in the Washington, DC area and was sponsored by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, US Food and Drug Administration, Federation International Pharmaceutique, Health Protection Branch (Canada) and Association of Official Analytical Chemists.
(3) That’s why we’ve sponsored the World Cup globally for more than 20 years.
(4) The mentor's administrative or academic rank, rather than gender, was the chief determinant of sponsoring effectiveness.
(5) In the target areas, church and community members will sponsor health fairs and discussions of adolescent pregnancy at church and at parent-teacher association meetings.
(6) There followed a sponsors’ event at which Wayne Rooney , Ander Herrera and Henrikh Mkhitaryan were present, along with James Reigle, the club’s Asia Pacific managing director.
(7) Jonathan's party and the biggest opposition coalition have traded accusations about who is sponsoring and arming Boko Haram, but none have provided any proof.
(8) The research programme, sponsored by the National Research Council of Italy, was completed in 1988 and focused on (1) acquisition of technology by hospitals; (2) assessment of performance evaluation and preventive maintenance procedures for biomedical equipment; (3) cost analysis of high-technology health services; (4) analysis of clinical engineering activities in Italy.
(9) We tested nine (cadmium chloride, chloral hydrate, colchicine, diazepam, econazole nitrate, hydroquinone, pyrimethamine, thiabendazole, thimerosal) of the 10 known or suspected spindle poisons of the coordinated programme to study aneuploidy induction sponsored by the Commission of the European Communities using Saccharomyces cerevisiae D61.M (mitotic chromosomal malsegregation system).
(10) Karen Fletcher, Sheffield • So it's a "government sponsored scheme".
(11) It is hoped that international collaborative research studies such as that on the effect of differences in nutrition or diabetes control in children, between our clinic and the Valle Hebron Children Hospital in Barcelona (sponsored by the Child Health Foundation) will generate knowledge on how to prevent premature atherosclerosis in childhood diabetes.
(12) An economic evaluation of the self-help program was conducted from the perspective of the sponsoring HMO.
(13) We discuss the tasks and present data on financial planning, on putting financial plans into operation, and on monitoring progress toward financial independence for a set of ten demonstration projects sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
(14) While it is not a household name in the UK, its blue and green logo is familiar site on high streets across Asia and Africa and the bank sponsors Liverpool football club.
(15) Though the exercises have given the US a chance to vent its frustration at what appears to be state-sponsored espionage and theft on an industrial scale, China has been belligerent.
(16) This prompted an angry response from the bill's sponsors who accused opponents of using border security as an excuse to block any immigration reform.
(17) As a sponsor, they gain exclusivity in their sector," he said.
(18) This issue boils down to the question whether the ballot sponsors are more like citizens with strong policy views about a law (who normally cannot defend a law in federal court) or, instead, surrogate public officials who can act as the state for purposes of this lawsuit when the state itself refuses to do so (who would be permitted to defend the law).
(19) These data were the empirical basis for a clinical definition of AIDS in adults drafted in a Caracas, Venezuela, workshop sponsored by the Pan American Health Organization.
(20) By further tapping into the expertise of the independent sector – which has already resulted in many independent schools sponsoring or co-sponsoring state academies – he will say that England's state schools can become the best in the world.