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Example sentences for: backed

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Another possibility, short of putting U.S. personnel on the ground, was to issue a blunt ultimatum to the Taliban, backed by a readiness to at least launch an indefinite air campaign to disable that regime's limited military capabilities and tip the balance in Afghanistan's ongoing civil war.
Projects these schools have backed so far: a candle and toiletries business, a company that makes backpacks for in-line skates, and a firm exploring laser technology for eye surgery.
(Fewer than one in 40 men in the study backed out due to the pain.)
Third, the most successful enhancement technologies have been backed by tremendously influential public relations campaigns.
The director has backed away from what appears to be his real, more local, theme, which is the tug of war within American Jews of his generation between a compulsion to embrace other cultures and a feeling of superiority toward them.