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Since the concessions to corporate backers were minimal, sponsorship effectively became free money for the promoters as well as for the bands.

These candidates and their associational backers converged on similar critiques of state policies; prominent among these was the handling of the debt crisis.

He did so by condemning their backers as 'presbyterians ' and explicitly aligning them with these authors.

The fire that rid the opera's backers of this albatross was, we might say, remarkably convenient for them.

Some money may come from legitimate business activities or private savings, or from constituency backers.

Here the attempt to convert backers of the opposition party through a strategy of incorporation bore fruit.

The motives of his backers were hardly more edifying, moved as they evidently were by a mixture of political ambition and cupidity.

However, theoretical and empirical analysis of the capacity of community organisations (and hence of donor, microfinance and private sector backers) to respond to this challenge is lacking.

More probably, it represents a scaled-back plan developed after the scheme's backers had done some hard thinking about the 'estimate' of £150,000.

Bishops, bookmakers, backers, and newspapers all buzz most terribly, and sometimes disconcertingly in unison, when the words "betting legislation" are mentioned.

It offers exceptional opportunities for profit to the promoters, and there are exceptional lures for the backer.

There have been the owners, breeders and trainers, and there have been the bookmakers and the backers.

Regular backers of horses prefer to bet with bookmakers.

We want to act quickly to dispel any doubts that there may be in the minds of potential backers of local authority partnership schemes.

Ownership at the end of the contract period will depend upon the arrangements made by the contractor with his financial backer.