Sentence examples for raiser from inspiring English sources
noun
A person or thing that raises.
- She is a raiser of gerbils.
It's a justifiable revenue raiser, so a rash of competitor imitations seems inevitable.
As well as being a skilful raiser of money, Mr Pusey was a reformer.
Then the tax will be an effective revenue raiser, much more efficient than a tax on income.
The presidential vote is widely seen as a curtain-raiser for a parliamentary election in October.
The dirty protest was the curtain-raiser for the IRA hunger strike under the Thatcher government, which seriously undermined the SDLP, partly because of the sympathy for IRA political violence rather than SDLP constitutional tactics that Mason's policies helped create among Catholics.
Berezutski or Igor Denisov were the alternatives and the manager confirmed the former's appointment only 24 hours before their curtain-raiser.
Sylvia Gellburg is traumatised, as if she knows this is only a curtain-raiser to the horrors to come.
The fixture was a gentle curtain-raiser, pitting the winners of last year's county championship (Durham), against an invitational XI playing for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the prestigious club that owns Lord's.
Mrs Clinton surrounded herself with familiar faces from her White House years people like Mark Penn, her chief strategist, Terry McAuliffe, her chief fund-raiser, Howard Wolfson (one of the least helpful spokesmen this newspaper has ever encountered) and, of course, her husband.
He is a prolific fund-raiser, and has created a network of activists over the years that will enthusiastically promote his cause.
Even before the applause died down, however, one former CSU leader turned aside and privately said he worried about a different party.For the biggest news in that Bavarian election, regarded as a curtain-raiser for Germany's federal poll on September 22nd, was the electoral disaster of the Free Democrats (FDP).
