The $20 million grants are much bigger than typical grants from Dr. Zerhouni's agency, which is the world's largest backer of medical research.

XNA is a fantastic tool to get started with and with digital distribution, you don't always need a large backer to get out there.

The Cornell center has an annual budget of $30 million, and its largest backer is the National Science Foundation.

Mr. Lehman did not make public Mr. Saatchi's role as the single largest financial backer of "Sensation."

The politicians were embarrassingly unaware of their largest backers.

Charles Saatchi, the British advertising magnate, owns the paintings and sculptures and is the show's largest financial backer.

The board also insisted that General Electric could not be the source of $13 million of unsecured financing because it was already a large backer of the airline.

Because it is the world's richest Muslim nation, Saudi Arabia is the largest backer of Islamic charities.

Germany is the Soviet Union's largest Western backer, having pledged $35 billion in credits since 1989.

The university is legally independent from the Sudanese state, but the government is the largest financial backer.