Sentence examples for canvass support from inspiring English sources

Bin Hammam will meet with the Football Association next month to canvass support.

He subsequently persuaded Cranborne to back the Good Friday accord and canvass support for it among the unionist community.

In 1896 Gandhi went to India to fetch his wife, Kasturba (or Kasturbai), and their two oldest children and to canvass support for the Indians overseas.

So apparently confident was he of victory that, over the whole period of the campaign, he did not once personally deign to canvass support.

Many of these contests were fascinating, pitting one wing of the relevant party against another but requiring plausible candidates to canvass support and nominations from rival parties too.

Whelan, Unite's political director and Gordon Brown's former spin doctor, is planning to mobilise tens of thousands of Unite's members to canvass support for Labour in the election.

Supporters of Kenneth Clarke have begun canvassing support for a leadership contest, although they are doing this at the moment without the support of the former chancellor.

Ahead of her visit, she was even on Twitter canvassing support from the Liverpool loyalists.

He has already canvassed support from county leaders in England's eight other regions.

The US, Britain and France are canvassing support for further sanctions but meeting determined resistance led by China.

But he presented no board papers to back up the notion, and had not canvassed support for it.