Bankrolled

During his State of the Union address, Obama warned that the Supreme Court's decision would allow American elections to be effectively "bankrolled" by "foreign entities." ❋ Unknown (2010)

During his State of the Union address, Obama warned that the decision would allow American elections to be effectively "bankrolled" by "foreign entities." ❋ Unknown (2010)

He deplores the moratorium as deeply hurtful to the corporate interests who have bankrolled his tenure in office. ❋ Jed Horne (2011)

Big brother Geoff Cook , then 26 years old, bankrolled the start-up with $250,000 he had made from selling an online-resume business he built as a Harvard University student. ❋ Shira Ovide (2011)

Future biographers recorded that Princess “Schnapps” Mathilde bankrolled the SPD before her death in 1933 after cables between her and a member of the Red Shock Troop surfaced in Rome. ❋ Marcelle Heath (2011)

As NPR's Ina Jaffe reports, Proposition 23 is bankrolled in large part by oil companies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Qatari government bankrolled al-Jazeera when it launched in 1996 and is believed to still fund the station. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Given the Saudis' penchant for funding and exporting extremism and meddling throughout the Muslim world, how would you react if you heard a Saudi prince had bankrolled an expensive research project to create a genetically modified strain of corn that could eliminate world hunger? ❋ Wajid Ali Syed (2011)

Most elderly residents were bankrolled by local authorities, offering private-sector operators a steady stream of income from the taxpayer. ❋ Unknown (2011)

There once was a poster that had lived in two European three African and one Asian country and still managed to visit Mexico and attend jazz concerts in LA and bankrolled the Black Panthers all in 1968 and there wasn't a maximum security prison of the mind that could contain him. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Security officials say they have evidence that Gadhafi—who bankrolled insurrections across West Africa, including Nigerian oil militants—funneled money to Boko Haram's most hostile leaders. ❋ Drew Hinshaw (2012)

He had custom software created, bankrolled the venture, and rounded up some friends to help, most notably Tony Burton and Jennifer Rose. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Or, as GOP members of the US House Commerce and Energy and their Big Coal-bankrolled colleagues continue their wildly misinformed banter this week on the economic impact of the EPA's enforcement of the Clean Water Act, coalfield residents from Alaska to Appalachia are turning to Rory McIlmoil, the "Tesla of the coalfields," for another question: ❋ Jeff Biggers (2011)

"It seems people won't believe unless they see him for themselves," Ridha al-Muntasir, a Misrata businessman who has bankrolled anti-Gadhafi fighters, said by telephone. ❋ Sam Dagher (2011)