backing
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A candidate must receive the backing of at least 106 of the 211 Fifa member associations.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
De Beers has vowed to support affected employees and help “sustain the regional socio-economic resilience we’ve worked to cocreate,” including by backing agricultural projects, a company spokesperson said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Supporters of the bill say there is widespread backing in Liechtenstein to legalise abortion.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
But it will be interesting to see what they’re able to do with a bigger backing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Around me the women were backing away, so there was a space between us.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
The only thing he requests is a tin of 112 players with adhesive backings.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
At that point, bank targets may be persuaded to do deals not because they need the liquidity, but to show they have the backings of large institutional investors.
From Reuters ● Mar. 14, 2023
Ms. Kokoszka described the members as having “unselfishly donated their time, talents, fabrics, battings, backings, bindings and labels for the making of the quilts each of our honored guests will receive tonight.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 24, 2020
Schematic facial features, like a distinctive square chin, and the numerous dashes of brown tape with which they’re affixed to white backings, give them the friendly mix-and-match appeal of trading cards.
From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2020
We make complicated floral patterns with a compass, we glue odd substances to cardboard backings: feathers, sequins, pieces of macaroni garishly dyed, lengths of drinking straw.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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