Backers Sentence Examples

This same gentleman appears on the list of backers of "After."

According to the Memoirs of Sir James Melville, both Lord Herries and himself resolved to appeal to the queen in terms of bold and earnest remonstrance against so desperate and scandalous a design; Herries, having been met with assurances of its unreality and professions of astonishment at the suggestion, instantly fled from court; Melville, evading the danger of a merely personal protest without backers to support him, laid before Mary a letter from a loyal Scot long resident in England, which urged upon her consideration and her conscience the danger and disgrace of such a project yet more freely than Herries had ventured to do by word of mouth; but the sole result was that it needed all the queen's courage and resolution to rescue him from the violence of the man for whom, she was reported to have said, she cared not if she lost France, England and her own country, and would go with him to the world's end in a white petticoat before she would leave him.

Tilden's heavy sales (during Field's absence in Europe) of "Elevated" stock, which forced the price down from 200 to 164; but Field lost much more in the great "Manhattan squeeze" of the 24th of June 1887, when Jay Gould and Russell Sage, who had been supposed to be his backers in an attempt to bring the Elevated stock to 200, forsook him, and the price fell from 1562 to 114 in half an hour.

A business plan that resembles a short novel is not the way to attract backers.

Few working class women would find the millionaire backers to pay their legal bills.

Aside from the military he has strong backers from the Chinese communities in the country.

And they are seeking financial backers to take the idea to market.

During the event, held in Gloucester on October 18 last year, more than £ 50,000 was raised by wealthy backers.

Unlike the mainstream parties we do not have rich financial backers.

For years bookies were ripping off favorite backers on the all weather.

For much of the day they have been talking to potential backers about their new venture capital fund called Social Brokers.

Its job is to promote city academies to potential corporate backers.

Such a law is anathema to Arnold's neo-liberal big business backers, the very ones that Blair is inviting into the British NHS.

Previously the company had been majority owned by private equity backers.

The deal made record returns for venture capital backers â Scottish Development Finance (SDF ).

The leagues have enabled us to move up and contrary to other's beliefs we have not done it on big money backers.

Taking into account the quarter finals first leg results could prove handy once again for football single backers.

Your city or state may have an angel matching or locating service that can put you in touch with those backers you need.

As the clothing line was in development, the backers were forced to file for bankruptcy, and the idea shelved.