In the 1830s he started to uphold Wakefield's principles and became a founding director, and one of the largest financiers, of the South Australian Company.

Mr. Wolfowitz has in recent months made corruption the defining issue of his brief tenure at the bank, the largest financier of antipoverty programs worldwide.

In 1998, Conseco purchased the former Greentree Financial, one of the largest financiers of mobile homes, in an attempt to diversify into consumer financial services.

Clan na Gael became the largest single financier of both the Easter Rising and the Irish War of Independence.

The World Bank, as the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development is popularly known, is the largest financier of antipoverty programs in developing countries.

China, holding $801.5 billion in treasury bonds, is the largest foreign financier of the record U.S. public debt.

Their advocacy of sharply higher levels of aid comes at a crucial time for the World Bank, the largest financier of antipoverty programs in developing countries.

In the 1990's, the World Bank, the largest financier of antipoverty programs in developing countries, encouraged the collection of textbook fees.

It is one of the world's largest private financiers of the microfinance sector.

But the move that perhaps most symbolizes the energy traders' capitulation to large financiers was a $900 million emergency loan to Williams last summer that Berkshire engineered.