Sentence examples for to acquire support from inspiring English sources

Last year, the German news magazine Der Spiegel accused them of setting up a slush fund worth €6.7m (£5.6m) that was used to acquire support from Asia for the World Cup vote in June 2000, with money provided by the former Adidas chief executive Robert Louis-DRobert.

SSC seems to have become one of the preferred mechanisms for developing countries to acquire support and to increase their influence in the international scene (Woods 2005; Kragelund 2008; Brautigam 2009; Mawdsley 2012; Quadir 2013; Burges 2014).

The system transforms static expert profiles into collaborative procedures that allow investigators both to acquire support and to share expertise.

Access to the SI cannot be assumed to be persistent; the reader has to interpret each parochial landing page for the mechanism to acquire supporting information, then download and store it locally.

"We are making all efforts to collect data on the intensity and scope of destruction, in order to acquire funding and support for reconstruction of these buildings".

Savimbi paid Black, Manafort, Stone, and Kelly, a lobbying firm based in Washington, D.C., $5 million to lobby the Federal government for aid, portray UNITA favorably in Western media, and acquire support among politicians in Washington.

La Vengeance remained out of action for months due to difficulties in acquiring support needed to repair the frigate from the Dutch officials there.

"Not least of these reasons is due to its expected ability to come up with the funding to acquire and support Saab, something which seems to have been lacking in Spyker's bid," he said.

As a graduate student, he received support from NGS, which he was able to use as a springboard to acquire postdoc support through the NGS Conservation Trust.

Women experience the pressures of child rearing; because of their lack of work experience, many are in a disadvantageous position in the job market and need to acquire financial support by means of remarriage.

However, in order to acquire this support, corporations constantly try to ensure that they operate within the bounds and norms of society (Deegan, 2002) and must disclose specific information to convince society that their activities are legitimate and beneficial (Alawi and Rahman, 2011).