Sentence examples for earn votes from inspiring English sources

You can earn votes by pointing out that your opponent is even worse than you are, but you can't run a political party that way.

Utah's Mehmet Okur (17.9 points, up from 12.9 last season) will earn votes, but Diaw's contributions helped vault his team to a better record.

A government with a secure five-year term has a chance to earn votes, not just buy them.A better way to save money would be to curb government subsidies on fuel and fertiliser.

And his aim – to earn votes for himself and to destroy the one foreign policy achievement within Obama's grasp – will have absolutely no effect at all on Israeli-US relations.

I soon found out that MPs don't want to communicate with PhD students – they would rather invest their time in conversations with people who will help them to earn votes.

Though any election is invariably a referendum on the incumbent, criticizing Rick Perry's performance in a way that can be construed as speaking negatively of Texas is no way for Hutchison to earn votes.

The melding of pop culture and political leaders continued in the write-in section of the reader poll, where Demi Lovato, Hillary Clinton and Justin Bieber all earned votes.

While the mayor is not running for re-election, Mr. Howell said his church could help candidates, adding that John C. Liu earned votes after appearing at the church last year in his winning bid for city comptroller.

The only difference is that the second is a popular position that earns votes and campaign donations (see Schumer, Chuck).

I would say to those people that if Bernie also realizes his agenda is impossible, he's egregiously misrepresenting himself for the purpose of earning votes, and that should trouble you.

We have to go out and earn those votes.