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Eliciting

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Present participle of elicit

Exact(60)

His freedom had come after a massive campaign was launched – eliciting the support of the actor Ray Winstone among others – to clear his name.

She was also responsible for eliciting a rare broad smile from Buster Keaton at the end of Le Roi des Champs-Elysées (The King of the Champs-Elysées, 1934), when she gives him a passionate kiss.

No doubt part of the reason the occupation is eliciting such a widespread positive response is due to the lasting memory of student protests in the same building in 1969, which led to legislative changes giving students and staff a much greater say in how their universities were run.

It's hard to imagine another public service that could be cut so extensively without eliciting a national outcry.

Buy from Amazon.co.ukFAST bowlers are cricket's showmen, eliciting gasps as they hurl down deliveries capable of snapping batsmen's ribs.

We ask, imitating local parlance as best we can, how the officers are doing, and promise "maybe next time", eliciting a round of laughter and avoiding a payoff entirely.This sort of interaction embodies a middle ground between the anarchic violence and routine verbal sparring that mark any given day in Lagos.

In fact, the Department of Health is already eliciting public opinion about the NHS through a series of detailed annual patient surveys; two on GP services and the treatment of heart disease have already been completed.

Asked to summarise his best technique for eliciting information from equivocating guests, he recommended a curious expression and the words, "Really?

After conducting a July 2003 investigation into the pre-war intelligence processes, a former deputy chief of the CIA concluded that such "repetitive tasking" was partly aimed at eliciting the desired response.A more insidious example of the administration's whip-cracking ways was the intelligence-scanning cell established by Douglas Feith, an under-secretary of defence.

For a change, workplace hanky-panky between men and women seems to be eliciting not outrage, but snickers.

Fortunately, that doesn't happen often.Mr Sanders describes several encounters in which he questioned his stressed-out seatmates about their reasons for flying, eliciting stories of upcoming presentations or grandchildren to be met for the first time.

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