Sentence examples for swing support to from inspiring English sources

Another Russian-backed offensive in the east would damage Mr Poroshenko's credibility with voters and could swing support to nationalist parties, leading to a fractured parliament incapable of reform.

Conor Burns, the Tory MP for Bournemouth West, who has been battling against parliament becoming involved in regulation of the press, said that he believed Cameron faced an "uphill battle" to swing support to his plans as around 20 of his colleagues will potentially rebel against the Tory whip.

But Riordan's endorsement, much fought over by the two candidates, appeared to do little to swing support to Villaraigosa.

It ushered in a period of unstable governments as Fortuyn's former supporters swung support to a variety of would-be successors, and a groundswell of sentiment against Muslim immigrants intensified.

Day first announced his intention to resign on 17 October but then suggested he might stay on until November to swing support behind his preferred replacement, Rikki Lambert, or to vote on the Australian Building and Construction Commission bill and other legislation himself.

Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa, the Asian Football Confederation president, will travel to Zurich this week hoping to swing support from most major confederations, including Uefa.

The site developer, Aby Rosen, a German-born businessman who owns several other important buildings in Manhattan, including Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building, has made a last-ditch attempt to swing support behind the Foster proposal.

At best, they can swing support from a candidate they oppose to the most popular candidate they find acceptable.

In Ghazni, local officials have greeted the belated construction work with tangible relief, hoping it will swing support behind the government and away from the Taliban.

Prince Ali called on individual FAs to make their own decisions and insisted he could swing enough support to win.

Second, although Gingrich received a surprise endorsement from Herman Cain on Saturday, the former candidate does not appear to have the sort of profile that would swing significant support to Gingrich.