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Over the years, Col Gaddafi had fallen out with both his neighbours and the West, although he had bankrolled many African leaders.

Or it may be that Abu Dhabi, the richest of the emirates, which has long bankrolled Dubai, wants to tighten the purse strings.

Last year, it wrested control of the $200 billion China Investment Corporation, which had been bankrolled by the central bank.

China bankrolled shrubby dub bush's welfare for the rich programs as well as the Iraq war .

Well I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, and worse, by foreign entities.

They operate under a "peacemaking" mandate bankrolled mainly by the Americans.

Yet injecting this extra capital into the growth-obsessed E&P sector also has bankrolled excess gas supply, killing returns.

The pirates are increasingly sophisticated, handsomely bankrolled by Somalis in Dubai and elsewhere.

Theyhave met with stronger resistance than initially expected against Taliban fighters bankrolled by the vast opium and heroin trade.

They launched Rent Marketer to the public in 2006, bankrolled by a portion of Daugherty's Google stock.

He explored his mainland Chinese heritage and bankrolled Empire of Silver, a lavish film set in feudal times in Shanxi.

The three-year-old Ion Torrent, based in Guilford, Conn. , is the fifth company started or bankrolled by Dr. Rothberg.

It wasn't a black group that put Prop 8 on the ballot, and paid the signature-gatherers and bankrolled the ads.

MANY of the council members aren't bankrolled by their parents.

to the businessmen who bankrolled his campaign;