Sentence examples for attempt to get support from inspiring English sources

Pakistani military officials have approached Pentagon officials several times in the past decade in an unsuccessful attempt to get support for an upgrading of Pakistan's nuclear command-and-control mechanisms.

While assailing welfare, he was attempting to get support for a plan that would provide a guaranteed income to all poor families.

She didn't see the point in attempting to get support for the ongoing harassment from her ex-boyfriend, as no one had helped her previously.

The Washington senator Patty Murray is attempting to get support for a new federal proposal that would increase the minimum wage to $8 in 2016 and then increase it by another dollar each year until it reaches $12 in 2020.

But when he attempted to get support for quick action, he was defeated this morning, 54 to 42.

For instance, when people attempted to get support for a Florida boycott in response to the Zimmerman and Dunn verdicts and the repeal of Stand Your Ground laws, many said it simply would not work.

The decision to send troops could be an attempt to get that support.

After party conference season, this is the most likely moment for Cameron to make an attempt to get Commons support for Britain to extend airstrikes against Islamic State into Syria as well as Iraq.

Has there been any attempt to get the support of top entertainment lawyers or talent agents?

One might suspect that the caliber of those people would be significantly higher than whom he might choose in the vain attempt to get Republican support.

It was impossible to get support.