Sentence examples for were canvassed on from inspiring English sources

In comparison, the support for same sex marriage among the people who were canvassed on the topic by a straight person had increased just 3 percentage points.

Researchers said that immediately after the canvassing experiment, follow-up surveys showed an 8 percentage point increase in favorable opinions of same-sex marriage among people who were canvassed on the topic — up from an initial acceptance rate of 39%.

Another Democratic consultant, Michael Tobman, said that while union support was important, it sometimes also produced a diffuse message, since unions were canvassing on behalf of several candidates.

Supermarket shoppers in Clackmannanshire are to be canvassed on how the council should spend its cash.

She was canvassing one evening on behalf of a new Conservative candidate in Edinburgh North, the seat that her son had to give up in 1973 on coming into his dukedom.

A young man had been canvassing on behalf of one of the candidates (he would not say which one, though he conspicuously avoided female pronouns), but he said that he was planning to vote for a different candidate, whose opposition to stop-and-frisk is more steadfast.

On average, 20 houses were canvassed to find an eligible control subject who agreed to be interviewed.

The Frenchman is canvassing on a reformer's mandate, agreeing to an independent review of the way the IRB is run, a call that Beaumont has joined.

One time she was canvassing on an estate with Richard and a woman asked how she dare bring him there, when there were children present.

She was canvassing on a council estate when an elderly white couple saw her Labour rosette and one of them said: "We're not voting Labour - you hand taxpayers' money to our daughter".

Cabinet ministers were canvassing for support on Friday before the first round of a crucial parliamentary election that will decide whether François Hollande can depend on an absolute Socialist majority and a free hand for his solutions to the economic crisis, or whether he must rely on Green allies or a trickier accommodation with hardline leftists.