Sentence examples for encouraging votes from inspiring English sources

Just a week after meeting and nearly endorsing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at his Montreat, N.C., home, an ailing Rev. Billy Graham is encouraging votes for candidates supporting "biblical values" that include opposition to gay marriage.

As my colleague Robert Worth reports, Iran has sought to portray the protests after the last election as a Western plot, encouraging voting on Friday to prove that alleged efforts to undermine Iran by so-called arrogant powers have failed.

Still, TV stations are playing PSAs encouraging voting, and the streets are filled with Sisi campaign posters emblazoned with the pat campaign slogan, "Long Live Egypt".

Last month, Mr. Roh said he would do everything within the law to encourage votes for the upstart Uri Party in the elections scheduled for April 15.

Expected good weather will help encourage voting though.

Dr. Barry Wall, director of the forensic service at the mental hospital, said the hospital encouraged voting when possible.

The unique Israeli two-ballot system (one ballot for prime minister and another for a party) encouraged voting for small special-interest groups.

Impersonal techniques — generic direct mail, phone calls from paid, script-reading workers — did little to encourage voting, but chattier, more inquisitive phone calls from volunteers were effective.

Nandy, who, at 32 is one of the youngest parliamentarians, added that lowering the voting age would also encourage voting habits earlier in life.

Wisconsin Right to Life held that Congress could only restrict spending on campaign ads that directly encouraged voting for or against a particular candidate.

Democrats said that the three feeds, or community meals that featured American Indian fry bread and chili were legal campaign rallies trying to encourage voting in a community where turnout typically is low.