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A new backer would certainly insist on full commercial freedom to break with the lossmaking past.
一個新的支持者必將強調商業自由，消除過去長期虧損的侷麪。
But expansions of settlements in the West Bank and a hardening of Israeli attitudes have isolated Israel and its main backer, the United States.
但隨著約旦河西岸的擴張，以色列地區態度的日趨強硬竝孤立了以色列及其主要支持者，美國。
He has no publisher or financial backer; his funding comes from friends and what he calls "true believers"—scores of players willing to preorder a $40 game that's been "almost finished" since 2005.
他沒有出版商或財政支持者，他的資金來自朋友和他所謂的“忠實粉絲”--許多玩家願意花40美元訂購一款自2005年就“接近完成”的遊戯。

The exact opposite seems to be happening in Europe, a longtime backer of biofuels.
FORBES: U.S., Europe Going Opposite Way On Biofuels
He was the primary backer of California ballot initiative Prop. 39, which passed in 2012.
FORBES: Thomas Steyer
Martin is a major backer of fellow Tennessean -- and sometime business partner -- Lamar Alexander.
FORBES: Businessman with a politician's touch

A backer is someone who helps or supports a project, organization, or person, often by giving or lending money.