1. sponsor - Noun
2. sponsor - Verb
One who binds himself to answer for another, and is responsible for his default; a surety.
One who at the baptism of an infant professore the christian faith in its name, and guarantees its religious education; a godfather or godmother.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMost sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product. Mignon McLaughlin
Death is real. Death changes things. Everything else is filler, merely a message from our sponsor. Michael Marshall Smith
The President should spend his time going after the terrorists rather than sharing sensitive counter terrorism information with countries that sponsor terrorism. Frank Lautenberg
Let me be clear. Our first line of defense is a simple message: Every group or nation must know, if they sponsor such attacks, our response will be devastating. George W. Bush
We have dealt a serious blow to Al Qaeda in recent years, but they're not defeated, and they'll strike us again, if they can. Iran remains the chief state sponsor of terrorism and is on the path to acquiring nuclear weapons. John McCain
For the late twentieth-century museum director there is no more certain prospect for audience acclaim and sponsor success than those Impressionist and Post-impressionist artists who were so reviled a century earlier. Nicholas Serota