Sentence examples for elicit support for from inspiring English sources
Charles Deister, a spokesman for Gov. George E. Pataki, dismissed Mr. McCall's proposal as a ploy to elicit support for his anticipated run for governor in 2002.
Favre's current status is also different from Joe Namath's when he was summoned to elicit support for the Jets' failed plan to build a stadium in Manhattan.
A12 Vice President Dick Cheney encountered opposition from King Abdullah II of Jordan on a mission to elicit support for a possible military campaign against Iraq.
Unite has attempted to elicit support for industrial action from around the world, and has held talks with bosses from the Teamsters union, which boasts 1.4 million members, in Washington DC, after which Teamsters bosses said they would not rule anything "in or out" when it came to supporting the British strike.
Focusing on the "Protected Countryside," the major land-use designation in the Plan that structures the Greenbelt framework, we explore tensions between abstract ideals of countryside used by policy makers to elicit support for the Plan and people's lived experience of material landscapes of the peri-urban fringe.
His photograph of Churchill was taken during the British prime minister's 1941 visit to Ottawa to elicit support for the war effort against Germany.
Eliciting support for a conspiracy theory was complicated by the fact that both of the shooting victims were black, as is Mr. Al-Amin.
A meeting in May between council officials and owners of the city's numerous massage parlours elicited support for the idea.Until recently the idea of legalising the trade in paid sex would have been politically unimaginable.
Netanyahu insulted the President at the White House last Thursday and then again in the halls of Congress by eliciting support for policies Obama rejects.
Strategic framing, which draws on concepts from discourse analysis, has been applied in eliciting support for public issues that are often not a priority for governments or are controversial.
As a guest of the LBF, I felt obliged to elicit support from the Prime Minister for the book trade, which is worth more than £5bn annually to this country.
