Nicaraguan aid to leftist rebels in El Salvador caused the US to sponsor anti-Sandinista contra guerrillas through much of the 1980s.
The US rescinded Libya's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism in June 2006.
Kate could not accustom herself to the thought of this shy, awkward, scholarly man, the least considered of her girlhood adorers, in the rôle of social sponsor to her children.
So you are going to play sponsor to my children once more!
But they could find no one willing to stand sponsor for the child, for everybody thought that if the parents died, the child would be left a burden on their hands.
A noble lord stood sponsorfor the prince, who was named Villem.
He was naturally quick-witted, else his sponsor would never have chosen him for chairman.
The failure to find a firm to stand sponsorfor his book discouraged Whitman to the extent of planning to go West and pioneer.
I intend to go to the Woods Hole, Massachusetts Marine Lab this summer with my sponsor and get some new ideas there, especially since Professor Gould M.
My sponsor and I had some pretty good sessions about it, and some of the screwy results I wrote you begin to make sense.
My sponsor is an internationally known man in the field.
At birth a sort of sponsorfor the child was summoned, and he was given more authority than the parent.
He made the necessary oaths, and produced a sponsor who swore that he was born in Baltimore.
The collector, with that attention to his duty for which he is so remarkable, had both seaman and sponsor apprehended.
It is an established maxim, that in adopting a resolution offered by a committee in this House, no member is pledged to support the reasoning, or made sponsor for the facts which they have seen fit to insert in it.
Thus our improvidence is madesponsor for our disinclination.
A disciplinary law against despisers of baptism and marriage, which threatened such with the loss of all ecclesiastical electoral rights, and eventually with exclusion from the Lord’s supper and sponsor rights; and 3.
Who is “the Russian mystic,” Sergius Nilus, the sponsorof the Protocols?
One of the wives of Louis, Monsieur de Jouï sponsor in the name of Mme.
The other wife of Louis, sieur de Poutrincourt sponsorin the name of Madame de Dampierre.
The wife of said Henry, sieur de Poutrincourt sponsor in the name of the Queen, was named MARIE, after her.
A niece of Henry, Monsieur de Coullongne sponsor in the name of Mademoiselle de Grandmare, was after her named ANNE.
They'd sponsor and they'd subsidize their spokesmen and the Naturalists would evolve into an efficient body of opposition.
If I go before the people and sponsor Leffingwell, I'm through.
You can't officially sponsor a thing like that," he muttered.
We are not even willing to stand sponsor for their economics.
He and Signorelli returned to Siena together, and the master of Cortona stood sponsor to the child born in January 1509.
The painter's place in the social world--although he preferred his other world of Art--was so secure that he was free from any petty embarrassment in standing sponsorfor a wild man from the hills.
Samson was told nothing of the benevolent conspiracy, but one evening shortly later he found himself sitting at a café table with his sponsor and a stout man, almost as silent as himself.
Iran has been designated a state sponsorof terrorism for its activities in Lebanon and elsewhere in the world and remains subject to US economic sanctions and export controls because of its continued involvement.
In stating these facts, the writer is standing neither as sponsor for war nor as sponsor for peace.
Amandus baptized Clotsendis, and Queen Nanthild, wife of King Dagobert, was sponsor to Eusebia.
On the fortieth day, the mother and the future sponsor at the child's baptism bring the child.
Although he had been hitherto unknown to Bonaparte, his book was so opportune in its far-reaching influence that men could not rid themselves of the feeling that the writer was sponsor for the Concordat.
Lord Holland was willing to be sponsor for Bonaparte's sincerity, but the Lords laughed at him.
She was next asked if she had not stood sponsor to some children baptized at Rheims.
She had also stood sponsor for two children at Saint Denis, and she had gladly had the boy christened by the name of Charles in honour of the King, and the girl Joan, as it pleased their mothers.
Compelling Unwilling States+: The unwilling states are those that sponsor or actively provide sanctuary to terrorists.
Those states that continue to sponsor terrorist organizations will be held accountable for their actions.
Was there any great Affghan philosopher in a cave, for whom Lord Auckland could become sponsor that he should fulfil all the purposes of British diplomacy?
The result was that the duke wished me to stand sponsor to all his children.
Not only the child to whom Lorenzo stoodsponsor had an unhappy fate; the father and mother also experienced vicissitude of fortune.
No doubt the old king would have stood sponsor for his first grandson if he had been friendly with the Prince of Wales; but we know of the enmity that existed between that father and son.
The Prince of Wales wanted his uncle, the Duke of York, to be sponsorfor his boy with the king.
King Frederick William of Prussia was invited to England to stand sponsor for the Prince of Wales.
I have known your mother too since we were both girls, and when she asked me, after your dear father's death, to stand sponsor to his child I could not refuse.
Mr. Fanning, this young girl is very dear to me, I have known her since her birth; I stood sponsor for her when she was a baby.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sponsor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
