But Americans invested generously in the survival of democratic ideas and leaders.

The king and Christopher de Haro financed then Magellan's expedition.

We funded research for a Consumer Panel in an effort to ensure equality of arms.

KA You were funding it yourself and with contributions and this foundation.

These institutions identified, appraised, approved, and financed projects that ratcheted up African debt.

The exception may be the military and the diplomatic service following de Gaulle s lead, all French presidents have financed the military generously.

The borrowers are often governments, and in many emerging economies the state has funded its extravagances by paying bank depositors derisory rates of interest.

The New Hollywood generation soon became firmly entrenched in a revived incarnation of the studio system, which financed the development, production and distribution of their films.

But I can think of very few who fund the maintenance or the plumbing, as the Aeon essay refers to it.

Ireland s banks financed their rapid growth by borrowing from other European banks, so the health of Europe s financial system has become entwined with the survival of these insolvent banks. It is no surprise that the ECB is now Ireland s largest creditor through buying up its government bonds.

In other words, the private sector s huge savings financed the government s deficit, so that capital flight never occurred in the way it has in Greece, despite the desperate budget situation.

Although traffickers attended and sponsored some bailes, the specific targeting of bailes reveals a huge double standard in Brazil s war on drugs, says Guilherme Pimentel, a lawyer who volunteers with Apafunk.

And we were elated when they took a chance on a team of completely unknown investigators and funded us to study 1,000 women with dense breasts, comparing a screening mammogram to an MBI.

In 2004, the investment share of GDP rose to 45 one of the highest levels in recorded financial history as banks financed a huge expansion of property development and manufacturing capacity.

Around the world, government run agricultural banks in poor countries once not only financed inputs, but also provided agricultural advice and spread new seed technologies.

The recent work by Rajan, Stiglitz, Kumhof and Ranciere, and others explains the apparent paradox those at the very top financed the demand of everyone else, which enabled both high employment levels and large current account deficits.

On the contrary, the Saudis have bankrolled the Pakistani state, and proved a generous host to its current prime minister, Mian Nawaz Sharif, during his long exile following the military coup that toppled his government in 1999.

The Reagan administration was shaken by a scandal in 1986, when it was revealed that administration officials had secretly arranged weapon sales to Iran, and had used the proceeds to fund the anticommunist Contras in Nicaragua, a direct violation of the law.

Germans, who since reunification in 1990 know what they are talking about when it comes to such transfers, do not want to hear about a Europe where rich regions would permanently finance pockets of under development.

They had no money they paid for their dream with the proceeds from their bicycle shop not a single person on the Wright brothers' team had a college education, not even Orville or Wilbur and The New York Times followed them around nowhere.