Sentence examples for to drain support from inspiring English sources

The party appeared to drain support from the Communist Party with nationalistic appeals.

Though Israel was trying to drain support for Hamas, he said, violence will make Palestinians only more defensive.

A start-up party led by disgruntled former Conservative member of Parliament (and former cabinet minister) Maxime Bernier is set to drain support from his old crew.

The program is intended to drain support for the militant Kurdish group, the Kurdistan Workers Partyy, by improving the lives of Turkey's impoverished Kurdish minority, Mr. Erdogan said in an interview with The New York Times on Tuesday.

During a heated debate on the House floor late Wednesday afternoon, one of the Amash amendment's lead opponents, intelligence committee chairman Mike Rogers, pledged to insert "additional privacy protections" to the bulk phone-records program in his forthcoming intelligence authorization bill as a way to drain support from Amash.

Mindful that Mr. Bush drew under 50percentt of the vote last time -- and that there may be no third-party candidate to drain support from the Democrats this time -- Mr. Bush's advisers have been moving to expand their appeal among Hispanics, women and independent-minded suburbanites, and then turn those voters out at the polls.

He dismissed suggestions that it was in the interest of the SNP to introduce policies in Scotland which "stirred up resentment" in England in order to try and drain support for the Union.

Johnson had the most ambitious legislative agenda of any President since F.D.R. (his idol), and he explained to King that he was worried that Southern opposition to more civil-rights legislation would drain support from the War on Poverty and hold up bills on Medicare, immigration reform, and aid to education.

US and British diplomats have suggested that federalism will be fudged enough to bring mainstream Sunnis on board and drain support from the resistance.

As a matter of mathematics, aides to Mr. Giuliani and Mrs. Clinton are wary of candidates who could drain support away.

Democrats say Republicans fear that a censure alternative would drain support away from impeachment, particularly from about 20 to 30 undeclared Republicans.