8 sentences with 'sponsored'
Example sentences and phrases with the word sponsored and other words derived from it.
• « Ford sponsored research into soybeans, both as a food and as an ingredient in plastics; he founded "industrial villages" in southern Michigan and quaint water mills, housing clean workshops, fit for human scale. »
• « The scourge of alcohol is not new: as far back as 1600, the Rhine Count Palatine Frederick V, through the Landgrave Moritz von Hessen, sponsored the establishment of the famous temperance societies. »
• « The state used several languages to communicate with its subjects, and the government sponsored a major effort to standardise a new, simplified cuneiform alphabet. »
• « Charlemagne gathered scholars from all over Europe, including areas such as England beyond his political control, and sponsored the education of priests and the establishment of libraries. »
• « They also sponsored most of the most famous artists of the Renaissance, including Donatello, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. »
• « the most notorious, Alexander VI (r. 1492 - 1503), sponsored his sons (the infamous Borgia family) in their attempts to seize territory throughout northern Italy. »
• « Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564): Michelangelo was the most celebrated artist of the Renaissance during his own lifetime, sponsored by the municipality of Florence (run by the Medici) and the Pope. »
• « Henry the Navigator sponsored numerous Portuguese expeditions along the west coast of Africa, hoping to somehow seize land or at least find routes to lucrative sources of gold and spices. »