Sentence examples for endorsed a platform from inspiring English sources

Last week, the Republican Party officially endorsed a platform suggesting that the nation return to a gold standard.

Days after the close of the Republican and Democratic conventions, Black Lives Matter-related groups on Monday endorsed a wide-ranging platform intended to influence political candidates before the November election.

He surprised them by endorsing a progressive platform, which he pursued with enough success to secure him a presidential nomination in 1912.

In 1995 the PDS endorsed a radical social democratic platform but rejected overtly Marxist and communist policies.

The congressman's decision to remain in the race against Claire McCaskill, the incumbent Democratic senator, came the same day the Republican Party's platform committee endorsed a constitutional ban on abortion that does not include an explicit exception for rape.

Colorado Democrats took the calls a step further earlier this year when they endorsed a plan in their party platform to legalize cannabis altogether.

When John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson were nominated as the Democratic ticket in 1960, they made health care for Social Security retirees a major plank in the platform and endorsed a bill in the Senate that in time would become Medicare.

Late last week, Republican Presidential candidate John McCain surprised some observers by endorsing an education platform that had been developed by two staunch Democrats -- the Reverend Al Sharpton and New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein.

Despite Trump's own lack of apparent antipathy toward the LGBTQ community, this year's convention endorsed an extremely anti-gay platform, agreeing that not only was the party against marriage equality, but that it basically approved of conversion therapy, a practice so medically discredited as to be illegal in some states.

That is why Lincoln endorsed a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery, and won re-election on that platform in 1864.

Mr. Obama's platform endorses a similar plan for paid sick leave, which Mr. McCain has criticized.