Sentence examples for desperately promoting from inspiring English sources

The Chinese government is spending billions on "soft power" initiatives, desperately promoting cultural exchanges with the west, with the goal of presenting itself as a civilised nation.

I've been desperately promoting an obvious solution since the Newtown massacre: a counter-lobby to take on the National Rifle Association, dollar for dollar, using their own grotesquely successful tactics to bring them down.

The Michigan legislature recently passed a proposal that Tracy Pease desperately promoted for more than seven months.

Further, as Congressional leaders from both parties have traipsed around the Capitol all week trying desperately to promote an agreement with a deadline just days away, Mr. Cantor has stayed largely out of the fray.

I won't be able to cover all of these companies in my short time on the ground in Las Vegas next week, soI thought a brief overview of just some of the PR pitches I've received would serve as a teaser to what companies are trying desperately to promote.

A loyal longtime employee, Joe hopes desperately to be promoted to manager by his strict, by-the-book boss, Norm Duncan James RebhornNorm Duncan James Rebhorn

The All-Star Game is a party, a celebration of 60 of the best players in the majors, and that is what baseball desperately wanted to promote today.

Since Sept. 11, she has been promoting natural wellbeing, which she feels is desperately needed in our society.

Prince Charles, alongside promoting organic biscuits and the Book of Common Prayer, is desperately concerned that pubs should survive.

Engagement will expose developing countries' firms, workers and governments to the higher labor standards that prevail in wealthy nations, promoting the improvements that workers around the world so desperately need.

I have suggested to Bob on several occasions that his statements depicting antipsychotics as mostly harmful may have the unintended consequence of promoting relapse in patients who are scared off the meds they desperately need.