Sentence examples for sympathetic candidates from inspiring English sources

Perhaps the biggest reason for the turnabout is that supporters of gay marriage made an effort last year to elect sympathetic candidates to the General Assembly.

They have also proposed lining up sympathetic candidates to run for positions in the association at its annual meeting in San Francisco next September.

It sent out letters promoting the election and appointment of sympathetic candidates and judges, and wrote annually to members of Congress to ask them to introduce an E.R.A. bill.

In the fall of 2014, as members of the Arizona Corporation Commission, which regulates many of the state's utilities, began running for election, the company contributed to the campaigns of sympathetic candidates, although it declined to say whom it has supported.

In 2008 alone, they spent nearly $5 million to elect sympathetic candidates and, more importantly, to defeat a ballot measure seeking to reduce the prison population through treatment instead of incarceration.

The civil rights movement laid the foundation for the gay rights crusade, which adopted many of its strategies and tactics, including grassroots organizing, protest and civil disobedience, fighting for justice in the courts, lobbying for legislation, and campaigning to elect sympathetic candidates.

Even my publishers questioned him, because he's not an obviously sympathetic candidate.

He's more the sympathetic candidate.

Could a gathering intoxicated by the possibility of imposing permanent change resist the urge to achieve by amendment what decades of lobbying, protesting, and the cultivation of sympathetic judicial candidates could not?

As they did here on Monday night to a sold-out audience of 1,300 at the Great Falls Civic Center, the artists took time between songs to preach this year's dual message: the need to register and vote and to elect candidates sympathetic to the protection of bison.

He said it would be "very careful not to split the vote" and hurt the chances of candidates sympathetic to its aims to reverse some of the coalition changes to NHS services in England.