Sentence examples for in gaining support for from inspiring English sources
Urban was also effective in gaining support for reform among the cities of northern Italy.
For years -- as Atlantic City decayed, hotels imploded and tourists looked elsewhere -- politicians and businessmen invested much of their time, energy and money in gaining support for legalized gambling to attract the dwindling visitors.
Once an attack has commenced, effective, and possibly direct, communication with major shareholders may be crucial in gaining support for the board's position versus that of the activist attackers.
The challenge in gaining support for public actions aimed at disease eradication is that they are never economically efficient when only the current generation is considered.
The fact that job losses are concentrated while gains are diffuse (lots of small job gains spread across our enormous economy) is why political influence (crony capitalism) is so often successful in gaining support for protectionist policies.
After the war, he played a major role in gaining support for Truman's attempts to rebuild the global economy, and reposition the US geopolitically.
Bowdoin was instrumental in gaining support in the provincial assembly for an expedition to Newfoundland to observe the 1761 transit of Venus across the sun, and in the same year published a treatise suggesting improvements to the telescope.
In terms of gaining support for ThriveGulu, she said, "We did newspaper articles and a lot of promotion but 80percentt came from people that had directly linked through my Twitter page".
Yet Carruthers, one of the pioneers in his field, is gradually gaining support for his beliefs after years of isolation.
A citizens' effort in Iowa headed by a local activist, Kevin McLaughlin (full disclosure: Kevin played a key role in my presidential campaigns), is gaining support for an exciting variation of the flat tax for the Hawkeye State.
Campaigners in America, Britain and other countries are gaining support for a way of making the fruits of corruption even harder to enjoy: the public imposition of visa bans and asset freezes on foreign miscreants.
