Sentences with phrase «primarily as a backer»

Ms. DeVos entered educational advocacy primarily as a backer of statewide voucher programs, which was considered a «fringe idea» until her family pushed it to the front and center of the Republican Party.

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If environmental groups and their backers want to see concrete progress on limiting the risk that humans will propel dangerous global warming, they may need more than just additional money and better organization, but also a hard look at core strategies and a philosophy that has long cast climate change as primarily a conventional pollution problem, not a technology problem.