He's a big backer of us.

That has made it a big backer of private companies.

It has launched multiple venture capital trusts and has been a big backer of waste-to-energy projects since 2006.

With such big backers she could also secure sponsorship deals that made the site commercially viable in an era when many websites were not making any money at all.

Even if, in an ironic twist, its biggest backers have now been scared off.

The firm became the first major corporate backer for our appeal earlier this month by handing over a £50,000 cheque.

The company became the main corporate backer of the party with gifts of nearly 400,000.

The business has no corporate backers or investors.

The group also has its corporate backers to consider.

Combined with the contributions from our corporate backers, the total stands at just over 350,000.

He also issued press releases in his name and had him mentioned in the media as a wealthy financial backer.

They said that some popular candidates had been excluded to clear the way for those supported by the party's biggest financial backer.

But he was forced to drop out three days before he started when a financial backer pulled out.

Their response seemed to be only the wistful hope that 'we will make slightly nicer shoes and handbags', as one financial backer put it.

His stable has no financial backer and few aesthetic pretensions.

The initial response from potential backers was confusion, she says.

Foggy, 39, has locked in meetings the past three with potential backers for his team.

She chose the name as she was dashing out to a meeting with potential backers in 2006.

Consequently, if you can get several potential backers lined up simultaneously they may be more willing to hand over the funds.

If they let these people down, their potential backers will soon be disillusioned.

The company had high hopes, a strong board of directors and powerful backers.

But it has powerful backers, too.

The proposal has powerful backers.

The organization had other powerful backers, both in the world of sports and elsewhere.

The wealthy backer has given 154,000 to the party over the past two years.

If his new club are relegated, as now seems increasingly likely, at least he will have the consolation in the transfer market of a wealthy backer.

As for the blues, tipped by the press and backed by a fabulously wealthy backer, they were supposed to have had it sewn up months ago.

The laws were brought into make clubs self-sufficient and not reliant on wealthy backers.

Labour yesterday denied that 14 million in loans it received from wealthy backers were on preferential terms.