How To Use Canvass In A Sentence

  • Liberal Democrat canvass returns looked great. Times, Sunday Times
  • The council has been canvassing local opinion/local people to get their thoughts on the proposed housing development.
  • Dairy Crest are suing Mr Rollings for damages, claiming he canvassed for custom while he was still working for them.
  • The more civilised make up of canvass or "gunny bags" stuffed with hay and provided with cross bars, a rude packsaddle, which is admirably calculated to gall the animal's back. First Footsteps in East Africa
  • And he aims to ensure he wins in Greece by spending the next month canvassing for votes in rival countries. The Sun
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  • Your only comfort lay in the forced reflection, that, real as he looked, the poor caitiff was but imaginary, a bit of painted canvass, whom no delirium tremens, nor so much as a retributive headache, awaited, on the morrow.
  • A healthy living co-ordinator will go to bingo sessions to canvass ideas for a £1 million healthy living centre in Allerton.
  • Liberal Democrat canvass returns looked great. Times, Sunday Times
  • Retailers, mainly garages and newsagents, have already privately canvassed staff on whether they would be willing to work on the Sabbath.
  • The more civilised make up of canvass or “gunny bags” stuffed with hay and provided with cross bars, a rude packsaddle, which is admirably calculated to gall the animal’s back. First footsteps in East Africa
  • Using the services of a telephone research company in Southend, his company has canvassed voters in marginal seats. Times, Sunday Times
  • Every four years, when Michael Bloomberg runs for Mayor, the Big Apple is transformed into a winter wonderland where it's Christmas all year round — at least for the consultants, ad salespeople, canvassers, caterers, and hangers-on whom the mayor employs. Quantitative electioneering
  • Earlier this week, police canvassed patrons of a rural general store and a doughnut shop northwest of the city, where two calls were made to Cecilia's home from pay phones on the morning of her disappearance.
  • "We were hopeful when we were going round Walcot canvassing, " he said.
  • Instead of staying indoors, healthily watching a black and white screen – Grandstand, Hancock, Terry and June – they were out canvassing, attending ward meetings, collecting ministers' autographs, drafting position papers and generally behaving in a way unbefitting to young persons. The Ed Balls roadshow: enough to make you weep
  • By canvassing text votes, it gives Afghans a blast of popular democracy as well as promoting unity between tribes and ethnic factions. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Geraldton City Council will canvass its electors on a proposal to amend local burning by-laws.
  • The Broward County Canvassing Board was able to identify a vote for president in essentially 1 out of every 4 of the ballots that the canvassing board looked at that had started out as an undervote or nonvote. CNN Transcript - Special Event: Gore Legal Legal Team Holds News Briefing - November 30, 2000
  • The interaction of public and private law in Australia canvasses a range of proposals for reform to the child welfare system in Australia.
  • Dr Hutchison said the division's approach to date had been to canvass local doctors and look at ways it could improve access to medical services in Geraldton for the benefit of the whole community.
  • A canvass was set up on the easel, paints on the table alongside.
  • But there was a scattergun effect even in the more efficient Conservative campaign where millions were spent on direct mail and telephone canvassing of the swing voters.
  • The need for the anticipated infrastructure is reflected in various decisions, which I canvassed in Nikolovski, supra.
  • A new Daily Echo survey, which canvassed opinion across a wide cross-section of residents, reveals housing tops the list of local wishes by a mile.
  • He owed his success largely to the votes of the Anglican clergy, who came in droves to support him, but his ‘colloquial facility’ was an asset in his canvass of the residents.
  • Now the Bush administration says that a government canvass of laboratories has turned up more than 60 stem cell lines.
  • They enforced the necessity of uniform assentation, in order to lull the Mirabeau party, who were canvassing for a majority to set up D'ORLEANS, to whose interest Mirabeau and his myrmidons were then devoted. Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe — Volume 6
  • Wearing a camel coat he was canvassing voters as they went to cast their ballot. Times, Sunday Times
  • WORDS OF SIMILAR SOUND: canvas (cloth) principle (rule) canvass (all meanings except _cloth_) principal (chief) capitol (a building) stationary (immovable) capital (all meanings except _building_) stationery (articles) counsel (advice or an adviser) miner (a workman) council (a body of persons) minor (under age) complement (a completing element) angel (a spiritual being) compliment (praise) angle (geometrical) 205. Practical Grammar and Composition
  • Led by a police band, crowds of marching people will be canvassing support for this cause or that cause. Times, Sunday Times
  • The banks will canvass shareholders' opinions next week. Times, Sunday Times
  • One of the places in which Dawg lives is Chiapas State where the term "gringo" is considered a racial epithet so when you are looking around down there for Dawg to buy me some cerveza, please refrain from canvassing locals for the "fat gringo from Alabama often seen hanging out in the barrio plaza" or they might think you are disdaining me. S.O.S.E. Security - Chapala
  • Using the services of a telephone research company in Southend, his company has canvassed voters in marginal seats. Times, Sunday Times
  • However, Shanghaiist must confess that when six female Shanghainese friends were canvassed regarding their interest in the programme, some had never heard of it, and only one had ever watched it.
  • Those two toerags are canvassing for what they believe is going to be a bodiless war.
  • This was my first experience of canvassing and it all seemed completely pointless. Times, Sunday Times
  • They have been conducting door-to-door inquiries and canvassing people in the area of the river and canal network.
  • Now the group is under fire after an investigation revealed dozens of their "canvassers" - were ex-felons, some still on parole. Is the '08 Election In Process of Being Hijacked?
  • It is wholly untrue to suggest that I have canvassed shareholders for their support on a rights issue. Times, Sunday Times
  • The campaign, organised by Lechlade farmer Charles Mann, will involve canvassing voters on doorsteps, distributing leaflets and putting up Tory posters.
  • The way he strokes the ball around a football pitch is akin to the way his compatriot van Gogh stoked a paintbrush over a canvass.
  • It is to establish clear blue water between their principles and ours; and it is to develop and proselytize a coherent and creditable liberal alternative to the economic vandalism now to be canvassed at us by Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and their ilk. David Coates: Sanity in a Time of Madness
  • A day of canvassing often ends with a night of phone calls to solicit more support. Times, Sunday Times
  • The judge heard those witnesses on more issues than were canvassed in this appeal.
  • Wind and wave power are now being seriously canvassed as the solution to our energy problems.
  • Such findings on the canvass were what kept me going.
  • You're speaking corresponding with someone who is outraged by the actions of ACORN, who wonders, when he votes, if his franchise has been made irrelevant by the fog of false data created by their "canvassers"; with someone who is outraged that his taxes go to support professional rabble rousers with no demonstrable purpose except to foment unrest. Jeffrey Rosen on the two important race cases that will be argued in the Supreme Court in the next few days.
  • Wind and wave power are now being seriously canvassed as the solution to our energy problems.
  • By canvassing text votes, it gives Afghans a blast of popular democracy as well as promoting unity between tribes and ethnic factions. Times, Sunday Times
  • They opened the tailgates to the trucks and pulled off a large protective canvass.
  • He has also canvassed for the party. The Sun
  • His carved plywood canvasses are acutely reminiscent of fossil imprints layered in geological strata.
  • In a comprehensive canvassing of court decisions based on teacher evaluation for compe tency, I found that the defendant districts prevailed in more than a 3-to-1 ratio, and that there was no significant difference between the outcomes for nontenured as compared to tenured teachers. The myth of teacher tenure
  • Police canvassed the neighborhood but didn't find anyone who knew the man.
  • Using the services of a telephone research company in Southend, his company has canvassed voters in marginal seats. Times, Sunday Times
  • And since I'm considered a "veteran" canvasser by this point — I've been with the office almost a year — and since I had a good night and met my fundraising quota for the week by Wednesday, no less, I figure, why not go ahead and tell Trent. Takin' a Break
  • His twitterview today with Jake Tapper is full of examples as he talks about Iran not so much as an actual country full of actual people doing actual things in a difficult situation, but instead as a kind of phantasmagoric canvass onto which we should paint a tableau of American hubris and militarism. this Tweet: Center for American Progress Action Fund
  • John Poynter's rich history of Alfred Felton's life and times is a large illustrated book which also canvasses the many debates around the bequest.
  • They spend their nights not in front of fire and telly, but walking the rainswept streets canvassing votes, or in draughty committee rooms hammering out policy.
  • It is now canvassing views on a raft of other reforms aimed at reducing costs and cutting the time it takes to conduct investigations. Times, Sunday Times
  • By canvassing text votes, it gives Afghans a blast of popular democracy as well as promoting unity between tribes and ethnic factions. Times, Sunday Times
  • Luscious and rich, the very painterliness of the paint imbues the canvasses with a powerful visual impact that transcends the ordinary.
  • Meanwhile, efforts to canvass those with alternative seating arrangements yesterday were rebuffed by the racecourse. Times, Sunday Times
  • In a country where it is illegal to organize many types of public meetings, fans formed booster clubs and canvassed malls to court prospective voters.
  • In the First Meditation Descartes canvasses beliefs of various kinds he had formerly held as true and finds himself forced to conclude that he ought to reject them, that he ought not to accept them as true.
  • Here was a type of the travelling canvasser for a manufacturing house -- a class which at that time was first being dubbed by the slang of the day " drummers.
  • A party that behaved pretty much as if it did not need the Muslim vote is now actively canvassing it.
  • We meet in a café in Barnsley's town centre where he has been canvassing for votes. Times, Sunday Times
  • On a canvassing run with a union shop steward who buses dishes at a local restaurant, the going was rough.
  • Heseltine's campaign team, having been canvassing backbenchers for several weeks, had already developed a considerable momentum.
  • The hog is all nature, the ship is all art, “coarse canvass,” “blue bunting,” and “tall poles;” both are violently acted upon by the wind, tossed here and there, to and fro, and yet nothing but excess of hunger could make me look upon the pig as the more poetical of the two, and then only in the shape of a griskin. Life of Lord Byron
  • All nominations were considered and invitations were issued explaining the procedures and the extensive canvassing of staff views entailed in the process. Times, Sunday Times
  • These may be called the cringing canvass and the flouting canvass. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams.
  • The supermarkets are being canvassed for their views and I'm sure are heartily in favour of pocketing the change, but will still be glad of the captive market the vouchers assure them.
  • They were busy canvassing and drumming up sentiment against the new government.
  • He has also canvassed for the party. The Sun
  • Changes to the proposals may be considered after the arguments have been fully canvassed by the select committee.
  • It urged candidates and canvassers to avoid handling or helping voters complete their postal ballot papers.
  • • The major claim currently being canvassed by the incoming Republican House majority is that federal spending must now be cut quickly and significantly -- a cut of $100 billion is regularly cited -- in order both to stimulate private-sector economic growth and to free future generations from an unacceptable level of federal debt. David Coates: Sanity in a Time of Madness
  • The cost of newspaper advertising and canvassing literature before the starting-gun is fired is enormous.
  • First time Fianna Fail candidate Michael McNamara from Achill is understood to be the first candidate to launch an official canvass in preparation for next June's elections.
  • After the body was found, teams of gardaí returned to canvass those people in the area around where Robert disappeared.
  • She pledged that, as promised on the doorsteps, during the canvass, she would now be going back to talk to people and would be listening to what they had to say.
  • Liberal Democrat canvass returns looked great. Times, Sunday Times
  • The vessel labouring very much in a heavy sea, had not a stitch of canvass on her, and her bare mast tapered into the air like a cocoa-nut tree that had been discrowned. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
  • Several suggestions as to its nature were put forward, and several plans of action were canvassed.
  • The move is to ensure that every member standing for re-election knows how to respond if they are quizzed by residents, while out canvassing for votes during the upcoming June elections.
  • By 1999, they were canvassing the idea quite openly.
  • What, Michael wondered, would the voters of Kerry make of it if he was to enlist the services of the delightful duo to help with the canvass during the 2004 local elections?
  • Meanwhile the battle for votes in the area has intensified, with teams of canvassers from all parties converging on both town and country in search of support.
  • The duties of this "hard-worked" functionary consist of the checking of the Parliamentary voters list of his ward, once every two years, and of acting as chief canvasser and election agent for the Ministerial candidate, who, however, is usually returned unopposed; and for these onerous duties he is rewarded by an ungrateful Government with the "beggarly" salary of �0 a year. Chapter XXIV
  • Only the Dutch and German governments were actively canvassing such changes.
  • He had tiny, spindly arms, but ones deeply etched with the criss-cross of muscles held only slightly in check just below the taut canvass of his skin.
  • On all previous form, the new appointee will not be any of those canvassed in the press.
  • For example, last Saturday the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) had a National Day of Action that engaged volunteer-staffed canvasses in contested Congressional Districts across the country. Robert Creamer: Four More Reasons Why Democrats Will Retain Control of House and Senate
  • Mercifully, commenter "harumph" pops by with a futile attempt to restore sanity: "Coleman's lead eroded all day Thursday as the Canvassing Board considered a pile of challenges brought entirely by the Coleman campaign. Fat nigger jokes, SDA-style.
  • Her noble friend canvassed for her as if it were a county election of the good old days, when the representation of a shire was the certain avenue to a peerage, instead of being, as it is now, the high road to a poor-law commissionership. Tancred Or, The New Crusade
  • The council has been canvassing local opinion/local people to get their thoughts on the proposed housing development.
  • He has been canvassing opinion on the issue.
  • The question of what to do was answered for me one day when a canvasser from the white opposition Progressive Party (now called the Progressive Federal Party) came to the front door to sell the virtues of his party. Chapter 1 - Recruitment
  • Just a few hundred yards away, however, Bob and Roseanne, a middle-aged couple who declined to give their surnames, were about to start a door-to-door canvass for the president.
  • I recall an incident when I was canvassing for Labour in that general election campaign.
  • A great hunger for corncake swept through that part of the state; and in our own little neighbourhood a searching canvass of the resources of the five log farm-houses followed. Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
  • So at dawn on New Year's Day the Senate formally appointed Lucius Valerius Flaccus Princeps Senatus the first interrex and those men who intended to stand for election as consuls and praetors went into a flurry of hasty canvassing. Fortune's Favorites
  • He has called rallies of Labour Party members, canvassing a boycott of parliament and suggesting continued international sanctions against the government.
  • The Federal Opposition says most students would get a second-class education under plans canvassed by the Government's higher education review.
  • This is a curiously masochistic explanation and not one available to the restaurant in the Scottish parliament, that this week canvassed its customers as to why it was rubbish and nobody used it.
  • Led by a police band, crowds of marching people will be canvassing support for this cause or that cause. Times, Sunday Times
  • They've been canvassing shareholders who think they should at least have an opportunity to look at an offer. Times, Sunday Times
  • How many British women reading this have had their opinion canvassed by male colleagues only to find it overlooked in practice? Times, Sunday Times
  • The 40 canvasses, watercolours, drawings, photographs and sculptures all have a Thai ambiance, though not all subjects are landscapes.
  • He felt Gazette readers should be canvassed for their views.
  • Both candidates were putting in an intense canvass in north Cork over the past two days.
  • Volunteers would be trained as campaign managers and canvassers, and leaders would be groomed for campaigns for local office - alderman, city council, state rep - and campaign on credit reform.
  • Ever resourceful, she has even discovered a supplier of prepared canvasses and water based oil paint in Naklua.
  • My mother, as well as an ogress, was a Nevada book-canvasser. CHAPTER III
  • The American widgeon is the constant attendant on the canvass-back duck, so celebrated in the United States for its excellence as an article of food. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
  • And he aims to ensure he wins in Greece by spending the next month canvassing for votes in rival countries. The Sun
  • All nominations were considered and invitations were issued explaining the procedures and the extensive canvassing of staff views entailed in the process. Times, Sunday Times
  • The canvass is a legal process in which local officials literally reconstruct the results of the election one voting machine and one precinct at a time, to ensure that all votes validly cast in the election are counted fairly and accurately. Fairfax GOP head questions vote totals in Connolly-Fimian race
  • The proposal is currently being canvassed.
  • Also included in the exhibition are canvasses by Gauguin and a late ‘Bathers’ by Cezanne.
  • Right in front of my nose a canvass blanket covered a lumpy pile.
  • One of the scenarios presently being canvassed is the possibility of a rapid decline in the value of the US dollar.
  • Chefs Kuni and Yasu, both chatty artists, carve edible canvasses that are spectacular feasts for the eyes.
  • We canvassed chefs across the nation and collected recipes for five of the juiciest, sloppiest and tastiest burgers out there, from a beautifully trashy central Texan contender to a cheesy, double-stacked classic, to a red wine- and butter-basted Vegas beauty that's all but guaranteed to get beefy goodness all over your lap. Flavor-Bomb Burgers
  • Led by a police band, crowds of marching people will be canvassing support for this cause or that cause. Times, Sunday Times
  • On Friday 1,000 protesters converged on the Miami-Dade County Hall to protest the canvassing board's refusal to complete a manual recount of votes.
  • Don't try the 'if we all felt like that one' because my canvassee (?) doesn't believe in telepathy ..... The Highs and Lows of a Political Canvasser
  • All but the new boys obeyed, and the two "canvassers" were very hard put to it for a while, and might have fared yet worse, had not The Cock-House at Fellsgarth
  • He started door-to-door canvass on April 28 and as happened him on previous occasions, his car conked out just then.
  • When she returns to work at Kingston's John Lewis department store on Monday when her maternity leave ends, she intends to canvass the support of her colleagues in the staff magazine.
  • When the canvass was over, Edison knew exactly how many gas jets there were in every building in the entire district, the average hours of burning, and the cost of light; also every consumer of power, and the quantity used; every hoistway to which an electric motor could be applied; and other details too numerous to mention, such as related to the gas itself, the satisfaction of the customers, and the limitations of day and night demand. Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1
  • At election times on the canvass, her warmth and good nature struck a chord with most who met her.
  • Apart from three framed canvasses, two of which are hung on the walls here, I have nothing more than a few bundles of disorganised and ill-assorted sketches.
  • The Government has been canvassing a range of options to encourage parents to pay off child support debts.
  • Very simply, this matter has been extensively canvassed by the Education and Science Committee.
  • We are going to be out there to canvass every vote and prove to people that we should be in there representing this part of the county.
  • Certainly Denis Burke has, I guess you could say, made a concerted effort certainly in recent years and certainly recent month as far as canvassing the Indigenous vote.
  • Wearing a camel coat he was canvassing voters as they went to cast their ballot. Times, Sunday Times
  • Perhaps your committee should canvass its members about what they want from the club, instead of assuming that they know.
  • A decade ago Greenpeace Canada was roundly condemned by unionists and social justice groups when they fired a number of workers who were trying to organize the canvass office.
  • He says they've also canvassed the idea of posters and leaflets in waiting rooms warning that sexual relationships between doctors and patients are forbidden.
  • He has also canvassed for the party. The Sun
  • In the latter case, a foreign corporation, which had not been issued a license to do business in Washington, but which systematically and continuously employed a force of salesmen, residents thereof, to canvass for orders therein, was held suable in Washington for unpaid unemployment compensation contributions in respect to such salesmen. The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952
  • The only recurring mechanical problem uncovered in my informal canvass of enthusiasts was mainspring breakage.
  • People are being canvassed for their views on the proposed new road.
  • I am a bit dismayed that both Richard & I were tagged by some in the debate as biased or "canvassed" or whatever the term is, when I think we both acted in good faith … but there are plenty of folks on the AfD discussion who have pointed this out. Raph's Website
  • The banks will canvass shareholders' opinions next week. Times, Sunday Times
  • One by one, like a flight of swallows, our more meagrely sparred and canvassed yachts went by, leaving them wallowing and dead and shortening down in what they called a gale but which we called a dandy sailing breeze. A Collection of Stories
  • The blue canvass is one that I won in a photography competition. Painting Sweet Dreams
  • The entire process of counting and verifying ballots, called the postelection canvass, must be completed by Nov. 30. SFGate: Top News Stories
  • He spoke to his bank manager, potential investors and friends to canvass opinions. Times, Sunday Times
  • We meet in a café in Barnsley's town centre where he has been canvassing for votes. Times, Sunday Times
  • They canvassed for her and helped her to win this election.
  • Now by contrast, in Palm Beach County, the canvassing board in Palm Beach County only identified approximately 8 percent, that is 92 percent of the ballots, the undervote, or nonvote ballots that the Palm Beach County canvassing board looked at, only about 8 percent were identified as votes, and 92 percent remained nonvotes. CNN Transcript - Special Event: Gore Legal Legal Team Holds News Briefing - November 30, 2000
  • His use of vast unframed canvasses to capture the vibrancy of the African veld, is said to be ‘extremely powerful’.
  • In a hearing scheduled for the morning, he must now decide whether to grant a request from the Florida Democratic Party that he order the canvassing board to also count so-called dimple ballots, ballots which were not fully punched out by the voters. CNN Transcript - Special Event: The Florida Recount: Democrats and Republicans Maneuver for Political Advantage - November 14, 2000
  • They've been canvassing shareholders who think they should at least have an opportunity to look at an offer. Times, Sunday Times
  • He has already conducted an extensive canvass of the Killarney area and he has been concentrating his efforts on the Fossa area during the past week.
  • Chefs Kuni and Yasu, both chatty artists, carve edible canvasses that are spectacular feasts for the eyes.
  • It is now canvassing views on a raft of other reforms aimed at reducing costs and cutting the time it takes to conduct investigations. Times, Sunday Times
  • Congress; is next seen canvassing his adopted State in rivalship with the accomplished orator Stephen A. Douglas for the Senate of the Victory and Mourning
  • Not content to wring their hands and cry 'Woe is us,' everyday citizens researched the issues, organized to educate their neighbors, held rallies, made speeches, petitioned and canvassed, marched and marched again. Miles Mogulescu: Where Does the #Occupy Movement Go From Here?
  • Sometime during the years that followed, a canvass was taken by specialists in economics that showed there were about 350 economic journals in the world.
  • A day of canvassing often ends with a night of phone calls to solicit more support. Times, Sunday Times
  • One of Salmond's favourite anecdotes is how his dad switched to SNP, appalled by the rudeness of a Labour canvasser who called them Scottish Nose Pickers. Alex Salmond: Scotland's new superhero | Observer profile
  • The organisation - which represents tourism operations throughout the county - canvassed its members over the last few weeks.
  • The moment that the worthy Charcoal-burner is canvass'd over in conversation he appears to my fancy to loose a part of that singular interest he so promptly and forcibly claims in your recital of his history. Letter 119
  • She canvassed for insurance during her spare time.
  • Before fixing up the cupboards the walls should be made perfectly dry, and, if they are not so, they should be battened, that is, covered with canvass strained over slips of wood nailed to the walls, strong brown paper being afterwards pasted over the canvass. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
  • The presidential candidate comes out of the closet when he is canvassing for the homosexual'votes.
  • She canvassed for insurance during her spare time.
  • Mr Smith said he picked up more than 20 complaints of thefts, vandalism, assault and criminal damage while he was out canvassing for votes before the recent elections.
  • There had to be enough canvass up to give us drive and steerage way but not enough to speed us along faster than the following waves.
  • And he aims to ensure he wins in Greece by spending the next month canvassing for votes in rival countries. The Sun
  • Failure to take meaningful account of the opinions of the people you canvass is a sure way to engender cynicism.
  • While the DAA has not canvassed the idea of switching ownership to Failte Ireland, Gary McGann, its chairman, has made no secret of his desire to sell its interest in GSH.
  • Scrapping their role is not being canvassed as a solution in America.
  • His style is to be inclusive and he canvassed opinion from fellow senior players while talking individually to the squad. Times, Sunday Times
  • The banks will canvass shareholders' opinions next week. Times, Sunday Times
  • They were not referred to, from my rereading of the commentary, so I am surprised that the amendments he is proposing this evening have not been previously canvassed.
  • It is now canvassing views on a raft of other reforms aimed at reducing costs and cutting the time it takes to conduct investigations. Times, Sunday Times
  • Twitter is the latest instance in this ongoing process of pouring the content of hundreds of millions of minds onto a global cyber-canvass, the commixture becoming something new and unpredictable. Peter Daou: The Philosophical Significance of Twitter: Consciousness Outfolding
  • A day of canvassing often ends with a night of phone calls to solicit more support. Times, Sunday Times
  • Lord Wilberforce examined the interests which an insurance-broking business might have in preventing an employee canvassing its clients once he had left.
  • They've been canvassing shareholders who think they should at least have an opportunity to look at an offer. Times, Sunday Times
  • And just as background, in the 20 percent of the precincts that were counted manually in Miami-Dade, the Miami-Dade Canvassing Board identified a legal vote in approximately one out of every four undervote or nonvote ballots that it reviewed. CNN Transcript - Special Event: Leon County Circuit Court Hears Arguments in Election 2000 Contest - December 2, 2000
  • This did not deter Fitzsimons from canvassing the possibility of the Greens formally entering government with Labour after the next elections - due later this year.
  • On Friday he was canvassing on the Thames View Estate dressed in a brown moleskin suit, white shirt, beige tie and polished shoes.
  • When canvassing for the general election, Cllr Charlie Byrne found some local residents in the area didn't seem to know what was going on and others were not greatly concerned.
  • They are canvassing everywhere.
  • I've been out canvassing for the Labour Party every evening this week.
  • Just as much as anyone else, he should be prepared to deliver lectures in draughty halls, to chalk pavements, to canvass voters, to distribute leaflets, even to fight in civil wars if it seems necessary. Writers and Leviathan
  • Many had opposed early elections for that reason, arguing that they should be given more time to canvass. Times, Sunday Times
  • Of the various proposals canvassed, a system of compulsory employer and employee contributions was consistently the most popular.
  • I think both Michael and I were pretty crushed by the oppressive response that the ideas canvassed in the Discussion paper received.
  • They'll work the phones and canvass the neighborhoods, and on election day, they'll send flushers out to drag voters to the polls.
  • PC Rhodes canvassed members of her family, as ordinary members of the public, before she decided to open the clinic.
  • Among other options, it canvassed the idea of a reduced ‘core’ NHS, with patients able to pay extra for faster treatment and non-core services.

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