Suddenly deprived of their principal backer, the mujahedeen were compelled to take the United Nations peace proposals seriously.

Industry sources say he fell out with Ann Getty, the company's president and principal financial backer.

The Polisario has also been losing the political support of Algeria, its principal backer, over the last few years.

He is widely regarded as a principal backer of the coup plotters.

Suddenly everyone had gone except for one man, the show's principal backer, who sat crying at the table.

Her son William would become one of the principal backers of the new Virginia Company.

Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich gulf countries have been Iraq's principal financial backers during the gulf war.

The magazine now has a new editor, but Zac remains its director and principal backer.

They regard this as inconsistent with the fact that the United States is the principal backer of the guerrillas.

In those days poor Avon and I were his principal backers.