Sentence examples for canvass to from inspiring English sources

By H. R. Morganridge and Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, August 27 , 1949P. 17 A lady about to make her second marriage wanted to avoid a store-to-store canvass to chznge her name on charge accounts.

Sometimes it would be good if the first group of people could keep the loyalty and patience and desire for unity of the fourth group, who are the party's poor bloody infantry who deliver leaflets and canvass to get Labour elected, at the front of their minds.

He has issued information on how to use new voting machines in the fall elections; revealed elaborate plans to use his office to help city residents organize and demonstrate against City Hall, a shift in the way the public advocate office has been used in the past; and, on Monday, organized a street canvass to encourage New Yorkers to send donations via text message to a Haiti relief fund.

Also important to note, the viewer is not merely migrating from canvass to canvass, waiting for the train of embellished monikers to end.

Apply a base coat of a matte (no shimmer) finish.The base will even out the eyelid space and provide a clean "canvass" to create the cat eye.

Similarly, campaign organizations no longer have to canvass door-to-door to find supporters.

He volunteered to canvass door-to-door for an environmental group.

So the mayor's aides are likely to canvass members to find agreement on legislation that would pass.

The mayor's office organizes a half-dozen nonprofit groups and a small number of National Guard troops to canvass door to door.

I did some canvassing to see what the literati made of such claims.

Meanwhile an old-style Tory came canvassing to Fielding's house.