It is backed by a small group of investors and a loan from a government agency.
It is backed by a 100-strong academy of authors and critics which includes Margaret Atwood and Philip Pullman.
Rockmelt has been closely watched partly because it is backed by Marc Andreessen, who created the Netscape browser.
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It is backed by Google Ventures and a series of influential angel investors, including a senior executive at LinkedIn.
Under a currency board, no local money is issued unless it is backed by a sound foreign currency, usually the dollar.
Moreover, unless it is backed by monetary easing, Tokyo's latest policy twist (trying to talk down the yen) will simply not work.
It is backed by Canada's two biggest wine companies, Vincor Canada (a subsidiary of Constellation Brands, an American wine giant) and Andrew Peller.
Fund managers figure AsiaOne is selling for 65% or so above fair market value because it is backed by the huge, cash-rich, newspaper monopoly, the SPH Group.
The Backbench Business Committee looks almost certain to endorse a debate, given that it is backed by a public petition with 100, 000 signatures and by plenty of MPs.
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Buyers are also knocking on her door, but she said Line doesn't need to sell because it is backed by a public South Korean company and has plenty of capital and momentum.
Besides jarring the peace talks, a new rebel currency could soon be inflated away, unless it is backed by a central bank of sorts, or pegged to the currency of a friendly neighbour.
Unless it is backed by a supermajority of 12 out of 15 members, the decision is passed to an external review committee of independent experts, a kind of supreme court for the CDS market.
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Fresh Start, which says it is backed by more than 100 Tory MPs, wants the UK to remain in the union, but with "significant revisions" to treaties - including the return of control over all social and employment law.
It is being backed by major, mainly Western firms, many with interests in China.
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"It is only backed by the testimony of Leon Britton with little or no supporting evidence, " he said.
Furthermore, a common currency cannot survive on the long term if it is not backed by a political union.
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For all that, it is strongly backed by schools of education, which have a monopoly of teacher-training, and by teachers' unions, whose members make more money when it is artificially hard for others to get into the profession.
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It is also backed up by work done on both people and laboratory animals, which shows that stress changes the activity of neurotransmitters, the chemicals that carry signals from one nerve cell to another in the brain.
That idea has become Ghost and it is now a project backed by over 900 people on Kickstarter, including leading content creators and thought leaders like Seth Godin, Leo Babauta, and Anil Dash.
But it is our assessment, backed up by 49 other nations that are also committing their troops, their civilians, their taxpayer dollars, that this is critical to our national security.
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The administration claims it isn't, and is backed by the auto and energy industries in that claim.
The BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad says the timing may just be a coincidence - but to many observers it bolsters allegations that the cleric is backed by elements of the judiciary and military.
It turns out, ABC is a preferred method for debtor companies backed by venture capital to satisfy creditors, because it allows such firms to preserve their assets while staying viable long enough to find a buyer for those assets.
The best part is that he actually backed it up by launching BrandYourself very successfully in March 2012.
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