Sentence examples for counted on the support from inspiring English sources
As for him, "I churned out leaflets and counted on the support of the working class".
"They didn't allow me to enter the Presidential palace for three months!" After the coup, Sisi counted on the support of the Egyptian media.
Not so long ago, he could have counted on the support of SADC leaders, many of them fellow veterans of anti-colonial struggles.
The Patriots counted on the support of the French, but the government at Versailles, then entering the final financial and political crisis of the monarchy that erupted in the Revolution of 1789, could give no more than verbal encouragement.
William C. Thompson Jr. is the sole African-American among the leading candidates for mayor of New York City, and he has long counted on the support of black voters to propel him to victory in a crowded Democratic field.
Prime Minister Bruce Golding, whose Jamaica Labour Party has long counted on the support of gunmen inside Coke's stronghold in the Tivoli Gardens slum, opposed the US extradition request for nine months before doing a U-turn under growing public pressure that threatened his political career.
Besides his own faction, the second-biggest (see chart), he can count on the support of only one other, that led by Taku Yamasaki.
He had a decided financial advantage in both states, outspending the Clinton campaign more than two to one, and he could count on the support of powerful unions and the endorsement of a string of big-city mayors.
At least for now, he can count on the support of Lionel Jospin, the prime minister, a former education minister and one of Mr Allègre's oldest friends.
