Sentence examples for bid for support from inspiring English sources

Osborne's speech amounted to a wide-ranging bid for support from voters who had previously supported the Labour party.

Indiana has not voted for a Democrat since President Lyndon B. Johnson's landslide victory in 1964, and Mr. Obama made an intense bid for support there.

The program will start during the Democratic governor's re-election campaign in a bid for support from farmers, a critical swing vote.

Ms. Zlatanova's position in the cabinet is seen as a bid for support from Brussels, which has criticized Bulgaria for years for failing to overhaul its judicial system or improve oversight of E.U. funds.

Mr. Bush flew to Long Island, the state's traditional center of Republican power, where he made a bid for support from women voters in a primary where polls show him in a tight battle with Mr. McCain.

One group, in an almost comical bid for support, named itself the Rafik Hariri brigade, after the former Lebanese prime minister and Saudi ally who is believed to have been assassinated by the Syrians, and whose son Saad is influential in doling out Saudi support to the rebels.

The proposals will be discussed by the council cabinet on Thursday and are expected to be submitted to the Welsh Assembly Government in December as part of Swansea's bid for funding support.

Mr. Collins's opening bid for supporting the arena was $20 million for a sports arena at Rowan University in South Jersey, where he was once a professor and a basketball coach.

Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama are, gingerly, bidding for support from both of them.

Seen mainly from overhead, ancient buildings are pitched every which way or lean one against another like invalids in shaky bids for support.

California Assembly Bill 68, which would require a 25centt fee on plastic and paper bags, is bidding for support from Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has made ridding our bays and oceans of trash a signature issue.