Sentence examples for marshalling support for from inspiring English sources

Demand Progress, the liberal activism group Swartz co-founded, is marshalling support for Lofgren's effort, and on Thursday endorsed a concurrent investigation by House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif).

Franklin D. Roosevelt to produce a film to help marshal support for the aid the United States was supplying to the Soviets.

These works, he argues, remain highly "impressionistic," allowing the historian "to marshal support for virtually any argument".

(A decade ago, he and his wife, Kathryn Montgomery, a professor of communications at American University, successfully marshalled support for the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act).

"Arab writers have a great fighting spirit," she says, "they seem to be able to marshal support for one another".

Mr. Du tried to marshal support for Mr. Zhao's position that the crisis should be resolved peacefully.

The British prime minister undertook similar diplomatic journeying after Sept. 11, to marshal support for the war in Afghanistan.

"He never came over to me and organized against some decision or said we have to marshal support for this or that," Rumsfeld later told me.

She was also trying to marshal support for the Obama administration's push for sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.

Yet for Mr. Johnson of M.I.T., it merely shows how difficult it is for the United States to marshal support for anything else.

One of the first and most important things Mr. Bloomberg needs to do is marshal support for additional federal funding for New York from Washington, especially among Republican leaders.