Sentence examples for win publicity from inspiring English sources

Even its sponsors acknowledged that the measure was never likely to pass, but was designed to win publicity for the plight of cuddly polar bears.

Mother Jones took advantage of hers to win publicity, and, when a thousand women protested her detention by marching through the city of Trinidad, the general, who in peacetime served Denver as an ophthalmologist, panicked.

Besides the ritual demands for the release of prisoners, hijackings were seen as a swift and powerful way to win publicity for what was then the emerging cause of Palestinian independence.

Many Democrats described the Sharpton candidacy as little more than his latest attempt, this time on the national stage, to win publicity for himself, and contributions to his civil rights organization, the National Action Network.

Mr. Djindjic, who has not appeared on state television since 1994, agreed to take part as an opportunity to win publicity for the opposition, despite the topic of the program, "The Fifth Column," designed to portray the opposition as traitors in the pay of the NATO countries that bombed Serbia.

But Yau and Leung wanted to win publicity for their cause.

Grabbing them wins publicity, as a grab of one's own kind unless the numbers are really large, as recently in Colombia does not.Four Europeans were taken in Iran early on August 15th; negotiations for their freedom were under way this week.

The headline accompanied a commentary by a mathematician, Sun Jingxian, who has won publicity for his claim that at most 2.5 million people died of "nutritional fatalities" during the Great Leap Forward.

Demonstrations and strikes at Walmart and, most recently, a string of fast-food chains have won publicity and spread the idea of workplace organisation, even if results have been thin.

In any event, Democrats and environmentalists are now configuring Mr. Griles as a symbol of alliance between business and the Bush administration, a tactic that has won publicity for the critics and raised consternation in the White House.

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