Sentence examples for gain considerable support from inspiring English sources

Yasir Arafat's Tanzim militia firing light weapons, enabled the Palestinians to gain considerable support and sympathy throughout the world.

If the party is to win a majority of the votes in Parliament during the next election, it will have to gain considerable support in Quebec.

Trials were discarded and repeated if the participant (1) did not touch the line with the reach foot while maintaining weight bearing on the stance leg, (2) lifted the stance foot from the centre grid, (3) lost balance at any point during the trial, (4) did not maintain start and return positions for one full second, or (5) touched down the reach foot to gain considerable support.

They gained considerable support from ruling families and merchants.

In Persia itself a certain Vahyazdata, who pretended to be Bardiya, gained considerable support.

The findings also seemed to strengthen the hypothesis, which has gained considerable support in recent years, that some dinosaurs were ancestors of today's birds, which are warmblooded.

The bill, which is opposed by the White House, now moves to the Senate where a similar version has gained considerable support but where a coalition of schools, churches, musical artists and major religious organizations hope to stop it.

This theory has gained considerable support among a wide range of prominent people, including TMZ's Harvey Levin, forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht, criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos and professional beach volleyball player Misty May-Treanor.

The revisionist approach has gained considerable support among contemporary just war theorists, but news of this shift has scarcely reached beyond the small community of academic philosophers and scholars who work on these issues.

But the Conservative government of Stephen Harper has gained considerable support in its losing efforts to uphold the niqab ban, which it first promulgated in 2011, most recently when it announced its intention to appeal the latest loss to the supreme court.

As an outspoken member of what had been the minority on the council this past term, Ms. Hillgen has gained considerable support from residents for her no-nonsense approach on a frequently bickering 11-member council that had three resignations including one member, Michael Singh, who was forced off when it was learned he wasn't a United States citizen.