The phrase "appealing for support" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when someone is requesting assistance or backing from others, often in a formal or serious context.
Example: "The organization is appealing for support to fund its new community project aimed at helping underprivileged children."
Alternatives: "requesting assistance" or "seeking help".
Osama bin Laden has been openly appealing for support from the Muslim "man on the street".
"I was not going to attack Palin just for being a woman appealing for support from other women," she writes.
Before 7pm May will make a final closing speech for the government, appealing for support for her deal.
In the UK, members of the Disasters Emergency Committee appealing for support include: British Red Cross, Save the Children, ActionAid, Plan UK and Oxfam.
Appealing for support during the debate for a course of action he believed in "passionately", Mr Blair said it would shape the future pattern of international politics.
Organizers, after weeks of appealing for support for a "Day of Anger," had hoped to bring out tens of thousands of protesters from Vladivostok on the Pacific coast all the way to Kaliningrad, here on the Baltic Sea.
UNICEF in Mali is appealing for funding to bring support to the families that need it most and to respond to the spike in child protection needs.
MPs have been writing to Europeans living in Britain appealing for their support at the ballot box in London and elsewhere in May.
In contrast, Mr. Kerry appears so confident of support from his base that he makes a point of saying in campaign appearances that he is appealing for the support of non-Democrats, and at one point, strongly expressed his personal opposition to abortion, without creating any stir.
"He doesn't want me to succeed," Mr. Arafat told CNN, appealing for international support.
The president has started appealing for public support for his jobs plan, and denouncing Republicans who are opposing it.
