Sentence examples for trying to get support from inspiring English sources

We knocked on every door just trying to get support".

"I was trying to get support for my founders' main issue, which was the horse carriage issue," Mr. Levenson said.

"But I've never had such a positive response as when trying to get support for the community land trust.

"I live in D.C., but I'm a Colorado grad, and I'm trying to get support for a college football playoff," he told a group near Folsom Field.

Within Syria itself the agency has faced the major challenge of trying to get support to Palestinian refugees stuck in the Yarmouk refugee camp.

We were out trying to get support ; Prince William and David Cameron were out there, too, and I said to Becks: 'We are the only country doing this.

Meanwhile Defense Secretary William Cohen tries to get support for possible bombing of Iraq.

"I'm not willing to light my hair on fire to try to get support," Mr. Romney said.

In 1975 he tried to get support for using the technology behind identity cards as a means to counter terrorist activity.

This year, for instance, Denmark's prime minister failed when he tried to get support, in a referendum, for joining the euro.

But with a fragmented Portuguese Parliament, "political stability could become a challenge very soon, possibly as early as next year as the government tries to get support in Parliament for the 2017 budget," said Antonio Barroso, an analyst at Teneo Intelligence, a London think tank, in a note that was based on the preliminary results.