Sentence examples for they were soliciting from inspiring English sources

"They were soliciting songs and I thought, 'I must write some songs and send them to Mavis,' " he said.

Republicans said they were soliciting high-profile candidates for Senate races in Indiana and Wisconsin, states they had been prepared to write off just weeks ago.

In the late 1990s, several child sponsorship organizations amended their disclosures after a series of articles in The Chicago Tribune revealed that while they were soliciting money to sponsor a specific needy child, that child was not necessarily receiving the money directly.

I've seen the emails they've sent out on me where they were soliciting contributions so that they could shut down that gun-grabbing senator from Pickens, which is where I'm from.

"She never saw those checks, she never knew how they were solicited and she didn't know that anybody was reimbursed," Ms. Luque said.

A party source says the donors approached Leigh asking to donate money to Fox's campaign, not that they were solicited by Leigh.

Now, there was, as I've said before, an anticipation that the relationships built during these sessions might make some of those people more conducive to making financial contributions when they were solicited at a later time.

I attended meetings where the assumption was that the relationships built at these coffees would be such that some of those who attended would be more likely to be receptive at a later time, if they were solicited by the D.N.C.... Q.: Have you had a conversation with anybody about the cost to attend a White House coffee?

The selection of families was based on two complementary procedures: parents were randomly selected on the basis of a population list (meeting our inclusion criteria: age of the child and survey area) and contacted by post, or they were solicited while attending a children's public preventive care centre.

And several advocacy groups surveyed by The Times said they were solicited for suggestions and asked to provide feedback on drafts, in some cases on multiple occasions.

The Ayahuasca Defense Fund (ADF) was founded in 2015 as a branch of ICEERS, six years after they were solicited for advice following the raid of an ayahuasca ritual in Chile.