Sentence examples for canvassing support from inspiring English sources

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

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

Conservative MPs told the Guardian that Theresa May had been canvassing support among colleagues and was likely to announce her leadership bid in a speech later this week.

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.

The business is currently in its inception phase and we are canvassing support from a whole range of people and businesses.

He has since spent weeks canvassing support himself and handing out flyers outside cinemas, while Hélène Muddiman, who wrote the musical score for the film, has visited Waterloo Station wearing a sandwich board.

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

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

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

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.

The party poured resources into the campaign with the Prime Minister visiting the constituency on two occasions and hundreds of Conservative MPs travelling to the Eastleigh to canvass support.