Example Sentences

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Ismail’s parents, the AP says, have denied charges that they have been financing terrorism.

From Fox News • Oct. 24, 2019

Fishermen-turned-entrepreneurs who have been financing the protection of endangered whale sharks in the Philippines have hit on a successful scheme to help lift their coastal community out of poverty, new research has found.

From The Guardian • Dec. 10, 2018

And all the various rebel groups that have been operating in the region have been financing themselves in some way from local resources.

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2015

Haiti has faced a food crisis for decades and international organizations have been financing humanitarian help for years, but even so the WFP forecasts are alarming.

From Scientific American • Apr. 7, 2014

Businesses that have been financing needed investment out of retained profits and consumers who have been paying for purchases out of rising incomes increasingly borrow to keep up their spending.

From Time Magazine Archive