Sentence examples for sought their support from inspiring English sources

Italy sought their support against France shortly after losing North African ambitions to the French.

When conservative religious parties swept those parliamentary elections in the North-West Frontier Province, Mr. Musharraf sought their support too.

The three Republican senators from New York City, Frank Padavan of Queens, Martin J. Golden of Brooklyn and Andrew J. Lanza of Staten Island, have all said the mayor has not sought their support for the rescue plan.

Mr Brown said the legislature's Republicans had presented him with "an ever-changing list of collateral demands" as he sought their support to hold a ballot in June that would ask voters to extend a range of temporary tax increases.Safety measuresJapan bowed to the inevitable and said it would decommission four of the nuclear reactors at the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant.

Late last year, Republican leaders, including Gov. George E. Pataki, promised Orthodox Jewish leaders that they would give serious consideration to such a bill as they sought their support for a Republican candidate in a highly contested State Senate race in Rockland County.

I never sought their support because I don't need their money or bad ideas.

Mayor R. T. Rybak of Minneapolis, co-chairman of the Dean campaign in Minnesota, said Mr. Edwards met with some top Dean supporters in the state, himself included, on Saturday to seek their support.

Worse, politicians blatantly seek their support.

Mr. Bush has been telephoning leaders abroad, seeking their support.

Their executives have also met with marketers to seek their support.

The group also plans to flood aldermen's offices with calls and e-mail seeking their support.