backer
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The league has been on life support since earlier this year, when Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, LIV’s longtime backer, abruptly pulled its funding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Kendall had been a key backer of Democrat Andrew Jackson in the 1828 election, having defected from Henry Clay’s Whigs.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026
Berlin, a key backer of Ukraine, is also on high alert for sabotage plots linked to Russia.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Russia was a key backer of the Assad regime, and in the days after his fall, Assad released a statement confirming that he had fled there.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Ever attuned to the ebb and flow of research funding, he recognized that the government stood to become as generous a financial backer as the medical foundations he had mined to build the sixty-inch.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
But there was broad political consensus that cuts would be wrong – just 5% of Labour voters, 7% of Conservatives and 11% of Reform UK backers said they supported cuts to those payments.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
The investment will make 1789 one of Polymarket’s largest backers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The clashes have threatened years of work by the ICC and its backers to establish the authority of the court.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Its backers are seeking $100 million in annual funding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Sympathetic to Bobby’s plight, the committee circulated to its members a letter of protest that was ultimately sent to Icelandic Television, other media, and to the financial backers and distributors of the film.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
