During the Lancaster House conference, Britain had proposed that, since the resources it was able to give Zimbabwe would be inadequate, it could help Zimbabwe sponsor a donors' conference to solicit aid for land development and reconstruction.
By E. J. Kahn The New Yorker, July 22 , 1939P. 9 0Persofality of Countess Alexandra Lvovna Tolstoy, daughter of the author, and her plans to solicit aid for two million Russian refugees through the Tolstoy Foundation for Russian Welfare and Culture of which she is the head.
In 1770 he became an agent for the colony of Massachusetts, and in 1776 he, Benjamin Franklin, and Silas Deane were appointed by the Continental Congress as commissioners to negotiate an alliance with France and to solicit aid from other European governments.
In what was emblematic of the wider tensions over the issue of aid distribution, an argument broke out in the village between the soldiers, who said any foreigner was suspect, and the village headman, Myint Oo, who solicited aid from the visitor for the rebuilding of a school flattened by the cyclone.
Augustine was the prior of Gregory's own monastery in Rome and Gregory prepared the way for the mission by soliciting aid from the Frankish rulers along Augustine's route.
The Brotherhood, meanwhile, was alternately suffered to exist and then violently suppressed — a game of cat-and-mouse that was played in part to solicit American aid for the Egyptian military.
In 1941, that organization "solicited financial aid for those individuals" who had fought with the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War.
It was agreed to solicit Soviet aid in ending the war.
To allay fears of disease, death, starvation, cold, injury and pain, we solicit the aid of greater powers.
Wald, to help finance the settlement she envisioned, solicited the aid of Lower East Side German Jewish community leaders, asking them, "Have you ever seen a starving child cry?" Her appeal came to the attention of the American financier and philanthropist Jacob Schiff, who donated three Federal-style row houses he owned on Henry Street and had them converted into buildings for public use.
The president in his State of the Union address earnestly solicited Republicans' aid in shaping legislation while he, in effect, asked that they exchange activism for their present intransigence and participation for passivity.
