Sentences with phrase «position as the backer»

The lawsuit put Ovitz in an awkward position as the backer of the very thing that many in his professional circle were trying to sue out of existence.

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Reagan was so successful as a corporate pitchman that a group of extremely conservative and wealthy backers put up the money to position him as a political candidate who would espouse the corporate ethos.
It uses tambour wood (usually strips of wood bonded to a flexible backer) which slides in grooves on the frame to act as a seat in one position, a table in another.
Such plans, because they will make big money, have powerful backers: When Heather Zichal left her post as the Obama administration's climate czar, she accepted a $ 180,000 - a-year position on the board of the country's biggest gas exporter.
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