8 sentences with 'backed'

Example sentences and phrases with the word backed and other words derived from it.

« Egger took up the case, and the SEO backed him. »
« The Bank of England issued bonds that paid a reasonable amount of interest, and the British government backed these bonds. Thus, individual investors were guaranteed to make money and the state could finance its wars through carefully regulated bond sales. »
« The result was that the English East India Company, a private corporation backed by the British state, controlled almost the entire Indian subcontinent by the mid-19th century. »
« The political leaders of these nations backed down, repeatedly, until the invasion of Poland in September 1939 finally proved to the world beyond doubt that Hitler could not be stopped without war. »
« German strategists had learned all these lessons, and the German army - the Wehrmacht - struck with overwhelming force, backed by an industrial base designed to withstand a long war. »
« When Germany finally attacked Poland in September 1939, the Wehrmacht unleashed (what the Allies called) the Blitzkrieg, a blitzkrieg, consisting of rapid armoured divisions backed by overwhelming air support. »
« In 1950, North Korean troops backed by Soviet arms and allied Chinese troops invaded the south in the name of reunifying the country under communist rule. In this case, both the Soviets and the Chinese directly supported an invasion in the name of expanding communism, something that would become much less common in later conflicts. »
« This led to the surprising success of far-left political parties such as Greece's Syriza, which came to power promising to reject German demands for austerity and threatening to leave the eurozone altogether (it later backed down, however). »
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