Sentence examples for count on the solid from inspiring English sources

These are lives played out against an urban landscape morphing so rapidly its human inhabitants cannot count on the solid ground beneath their feet; one character, dispossessed by development, goes on hunger strike and is reincarnated as a giant cockroach that lives at the bottom of a country club swimming pool.

Liberals accommodated their wishes, selling out African Americans in the process, and in return were able to count on "the Solid South" in elections.

She has counted on the solid support of one in five Peruvians.

It can still count on the rock-solid vote of millions of people used to living in its shelter, it receives substantial support from the corporate labor structure, it's very strong in rural areas, its xenophobic and anti-liberal ideology still lingers, and its local bosses maintain ties with the drug cartels and organized crime.

Imagine a President addressing a joint session of Congress on an issue of such moment and framing it in such starkly moral terms, knowing that he could count on some solid support from the opposition leadership.

It used to be that the party could count on solid support from the large Cuban American population who wanted to maintain a tough US stand against Fidel Castro.

What you need to do is provide them with parameters and solid things they can count on, as soon as you have the information.

But since Johnson, the first president of the television era, shoved through an enormous package of legislation in 1965, no president has been able to count on solid partisan backing on the Hill.

Walberg held his town hall meetings in areas where he can count on solid support in the next election -- Hillsdale, Marshall, Jackson, and Adrian -- avoiding more liberal communities near Ann Arbor and Lansing.

Buying, cellaring and drinking Pellegrini Vineyards wines is like doing business with a good banker: You can count on a solid return on your money.

"Fancy" by Reba McEntire (1991) One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun.