Sentence examples for canvass support for from inspiring English sources
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.
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.
Ukip's former leader, Nigel Farage, visited the seat to canvass support for the party's candidate, Victoria Ayling, and suggested an upset was not impossible.
The French foreign minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, was in Moscow on Thursday to canvass support for a fresh UN resolution banning flights over Aleppo, the resumption of humanitarian aid, and a surveillance mechanism to oversee violations of the truce violations and of international law.
Whether for that or other reasons, just 33 (barely a quarter) of the movement's members have so far recognised Kosovo (for comparison 81 of the 193 members of the United Nations have done so).Slovenia, now a loyally aligned member of both NATO and the European Union, used the Belgrade gathering to canvass support for its candidacy for a rotating seat on the UN Security Council.
Tabling an Early Day Motion does not provide a guarantee that a debate will take place but are often used to enable MPs to express their opinion on a subject and to canvass support for their views.
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.
Yet the moment we proposed the benchmarks, canvassed support for an ultimatum, there was an immediate recourse to the language of the veto.
Work and pensions secretary Stephen Crabb and business secretary Sajid Javid are said to be canvassing support for a "dream ticket" as leader and chancellor respectively.
Mr. Araby has been canvassing support for a joint Arab League-United Nations peace-keeping force in Syria, but the Damascus authorities have rejected the idea outright and Russia has spoken dismissively of it.
