Sentence examples for designed to garner from inspiring English sources

The goodies doled out at the Oscars, the Emmys and the Golden Globes are designed to garner publicity, and therefore sales.

Supporters of the voluntary McConnell-Schumer approach say it is better designed to garner broad support and still achieve many of the same results.

Bo, the maverick princeling, turned a brutal anti-mafia campaign in the southwestern metropolis of Chongqing into an instrument of personal power designed to garner popularity through swift "justice" and to eliminate political rivals.

The difficulty here is that the pledge given to the National Union of Students not to vote for any increase in tuition fees in the coming parliament was in truth a pretty grubby act designed to garner some student votes.

Rather, the aim of the document appears to be designed to garner support for Ipso, a regulator set up by the big newspaper corporations against the express intent of Leveson recommendations.

As Mr. Klingert writes, the attack on Tuesday was a propaganda effort, as have been past strikes on highly secure locations in Afghanistan, and in that, it was largely successful: Today's attack is specifically designed to garner as much media attention as possible, as were the Intercontinental Hotel and the British Council raids.

Political ads designed to scare seniors to garner their votes usually include images of elderly men and women, even though the claims being made pertain to proposed changes that wouldn't affect seniors today.

In addition to offering a narrative of her sufferings during the Cultural Revolution, Jen puts her, in the last (and completely extraneous) hundred pages, through a series of horrors that seem designed solely to garner pity for this nanny version of Eve Harrington.

Nonprofits can apply to attend a summit designed to help the organizations garner online involvement.

It's unclear if any of the attacks were coördinated, but their timing, audacity, and apparent strategies — each seemed designed to inspire widespread fear, garner international media attention, and strike at a critical element of the targeted country — suggested political guidance, or at least inspiration, by ISIS.

Rat-eyed, thin-lipped parents self-tutored (sometimes there is no decent substitute for proper schooling) in controlled blubbing began killing their children in elaborate ways, ways specifically designed to baffle authorities and garner sympathy for themselves.