Sentence examples for enlisting supporters from inspiring English sources

Entergy Nuclear, the owner of the plant, has been very skillful at making allies and enlisting supporters.

But the writer details the difficulties that he and his comrades have been experiencing, both in combating American forces and in enlisting supporters.

Last week, Brown piggybacked Twitter's "throwback Thursday" meme, enlisting supporters such as Arianna Huffington and Miranda Hart to post photos of themselves as schoolgirls in support of the 31 million girls worldwide who are denied an education.

She rapidly took on the roles of both strategist and media and community liaison with the park's committee, displaying a great skill for community organising – enlisting supporters both small and large, from local children to prominent neighbourhood residents such as Eleanor Roosevelt.

But Goodwyn warned of the obstacles such a movement inevitably faces: "cultural roadblocks," the difficulty of enlisting supporters, educating them, and encouraging them into action, and the powerful forces arrayed against movements of this kind.

The president tried to enlist supporters to engage in the fight directly.

Daniel's clan realized that it would have to enlist supporters from other villages.

That's what has been known as the ground game, the old-fashioned shoe-leather effort to identify and enlist supporters.

The youths that trashed Budapest in 2006 relied on blogs to enlist supporters, and distribute an audio recording of the prime minister admitting government corruption.Hungarian blogs were also used to aggregate visual evidence of police brutality.

President Obama sought on Friday to enlist supporters to mount a public lobbying campaign on behalf of gun control in the wake of the mass killings in Newtown, Conn., suggesting that Congress would listen only if forced to by a populist backlash to gun violence.

The new version uses aspirational language to enlist supporters to join a battle for a better world.