Sentence examples for raise membership from inspiring English sources

Such outside revenues, Keener said, offset the need to raise membership fees.

Under his leadership, the NRA became overtly political, endorsing for the first time a presidential candidate (Ronald Reagan in 1980), advertising to raise membership and revenues, and spending the money on building a network of congressmen who opposed gun control.

In wealthy or densely-populated areas, for instance, rent can be very expensive, which can require you to raise membership prices to pay for it.

Nowhere has the surge in membership been as great as in Port Washington, where the fire department reports 48 recruits since Sept. 11, raising membership to 300.

Previous EU enlargements it raised membership from six countries to 15 between 1957 and 1995 involved only one or two negotiations at any one time.

After the Seattle assembly, he warned, the organization would begin a new round of global trade liberalization, raising membership hurdles higher.

But most of the job of raising membership falls to the on-air hosts -- people like Michael Bourne, 57, the late-afternoon D.J. Burly and shaggy-bearded, Mr. Bourne wears a St . LouisCardinals baseball cap and has a Ph.D. in dramatic arts from Indiana University.

"What we have found is that the trips encourage members to become more interested in the museum, to raise their membership level and become patrons," she said.

As well as getting the dirty money out of politics, this would force political parties to reconnect with the people, to raise their membership.

The changes would have "massive financial implications" for the party, he acknowledged, but could raise its membership from the current 200,000 to a "far higher number".

(Soon Amazon will raise the membership fee to $99).