Sentence examples for buying support from inspiring English sources

Chevron's community spending, they say, shares the same goal as its political contributions: buying support.

Will local authorities stop buying support from these remaining private sector units?

That will make it harder for him to continue buying support by offering government employment to middle-class voters and subsidies and jobs in infrastructure projects to poorer ones.

His open funding of two opposition political parties, and rumours that he was also giving money to the Communists—he said only associates of his did made it look as if he was buying support in parliament.

Speculation about whether Musharraf is buying support, and time, from his antagonists within the I.S.I. by acquiescing to the guerrilla excursions inside Kashmir has become a repeated theme in Indian newspapers and in conversations with Indian diplomats.

But in the chamber, he squeaked through by a mere three votes.The confidence votes were held against a background of opposition claims that Italy's billionaire prime minister had secured his margin by buying support, either with promises of high office or with cash.

Project No. 8 has been buying ("supporting" is the preferred term) Siki Im since the first collection in 2010.

These attacks occurred despite our best efforts to buy support from local leaders.

"This administration has had billions in stimulus dollars to buy support," Mr. Hess said.

They provide the support themselves or buy support from other service providers, mainly from the NGOs.

Mr. Zane denied that he had tried to buy support for Mr. Corzine.