Sentence examples for was canvassed for from inspiring English sources

A few weeks ago, a former NME editor was canvassed for his opinion on the Strokes.

A set of questions on treatment seeking and expenditure was canvassed for those who reported morbidities.

Mr. Branson was canvassing for names to run it.

I was canvassing for the Lib Dems before the election.

When I was canvassing for a byelection in Stoke last year, I met many people who had never voted before the referendum.

I was canvassing for an environmental nonprofit that was pushing for a long-overdue citywide recycling program, and we drove for hours to reach our neighborhood targets.

After the semifinals, in the handshake line, Weiner, who'd given up seventeen goals to our team in two games, was uncommonly friendly and solicitous, as though he was canvassing for the beer-league vote.

Brammeier told me that she wants to improve the community for her daughter: "She was on my back when she was three months old, and I was canvassing for Obama".

By the mid 70s Read's leftwing politics had migrated to mainstream Labour party allegiance, but he fell out with the party over Europe and was canvassing for the Liberals when he voted for Mrs Thatcher at the 1979 election.

In a private meeting, a senior White House official said, Mrs. McAleese told Mr. Obama that her son, then living in the United States, woke her by phone early one morning in 2004 to tell her he was canvassing for a young politician that he believed would one day be elected president.

So if I was canvassing for the Obama campaign, I could knock on someone's door, then I'd follow the script to introduce myself and ask them about their thoughts on the race.