How To Use Canvassing In A Sentence
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The council has been canvassing local opinion/local people to get their thoughts on the proposed housing development.
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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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"We were hopeful when we were going round Walcot canvassing, " he said.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Wearing a camel coat he was canvassing voters as they went to cast their ballot.
Times, Sunday Times
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Led by a police band, crowds of marching people will be canvassing support for this cause or that cause.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Those two toerags are canvassing for what they believe is going to be a bodiless war.
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This was my first experience of canvassing and it all seemed completely pointless.
Times, Sunday Times
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They have been conducting door-to-door inquiries and canvassing people in the area of the river and canal network.
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The campaign, organised by Lechlade farmer Charles Mann, will involve canvassing voters on doorsteps, distributing leaflets and putting up Tory posters.
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A day of canvassing often ends with a night of phone calls to solicit more support.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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A party that behaved pretty much as if it did not need the Muslim vote is now actively canvassing it.
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We meet in a café in Barnsley's town centre where he has been canvassing for votes.
Times, Sunday Times
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On a canvassing run with a union shop steward who buses dishes at a local restaurant, the going was rough.
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Heseltine's campaign team, having been canvassing backbenchers for several weeks, had already developed a considerable momentum.
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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
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They were busy canvassing and drumming up sentiment against the new government.
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The cost of newspaper advertising and canvassing literature before the starting-gun is fired is enormous.
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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.
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By 1999, they were canvassing the idea quite openly.
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Only the Dutch and German governments were actively canvassing such changes.
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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.
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The council has been canvassing local opinion/local people to get their thoughts on the proposed housing development.
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He has been canvassing opinion on the issue.
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I recall an incident when I was canvassing for Labour in that general election campaign.
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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
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He has called rallies of Labour Party members, canvassing a boycott of parliament and suggesting continued international sanctions against the government.
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Led by a police band, crowds of marching people will be canvassing support for this cause or that cause.
Times, Sunday Times
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They've been canvassing shareholders who think they should at least have an opportunity to look at an offer.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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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
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Led by a police band, crowds of marching people will be canvassing support for this cause or that cause.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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The Government has been canvassing a range of options to encourage parents to pay off child support debts.
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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.
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Wearing a camel coat he was canvassing voters as they went to cast their ballot.
Times, Sunday Times
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We meet in a café in Barnsley's town centre where he has been canvassing for votes.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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They've been canvassing shareholders who think they should at least have an opportunity to look at an offer.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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A day of canvassing often ends with a night of phone calls to solicit more support.
Times, Sunday Times
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The presidential candidate comes out of the closet when he is canvassing for the homosexual'votes.
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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.
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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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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
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A day of canvassing often ends with a night of phone calls to solicit more support.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lord Wilberforce examined the interests which an insurance-broking business might have in preventing an employee canvassing its clients once he had left.
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They've been canvassing shareholders who think they should at least have an opportunity to look at an offer.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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.
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On Friday he was canvassing on the Thames View Estate dressed in a brown moleskin suit, white shirt, beige tie and polished shoes.
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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.
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They are canvassing everywhere.
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I've been out canvassing for the Labour Party every evening this week.
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Disability strikes indiscriminately, even politicians aren't excepted, so please when they appear at your door canvassing for votes, ask what plans they have to bring the date forward.
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‘Ninety-nine percent of that has gone toward person-to-person canvassing,’ said Joy, who showed me around.
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It's a bit of a bummer - we've had a full time crew out canvassing, full time in this constituency for a month now.
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They forbade ‘political speeches, harangues, or canvassing among the troops.’
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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
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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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Wearing a camel coat he was canvassing voters as they went to cast their ballot.
Times, Sunday Times
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The council has been canvassing local opinion/local people to get their thoughts on the proposed housing development.
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The network also works at educating the public through visiting schools, canvassing neighbourhoods, attending community events, and more.
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Auditor Karen Flynn, Prosecutor Russ Hauge, and Commissioner Chris Endresen would be well advised to keep their distance to avoid spatter from the lawsuit and Canvassing Board hearing.
Sound Politics: Residency Lawsuit Against Kitsap Commissioner Josh Brown Moves Forward
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I'm canvassing for the Conservative Party.
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He revealed that the party had made more than a million telephone calls canvassing voters in key seats and had sent free videos to target voters - topped and tailed with messages from the local MP.
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She is loved in Vauxhall constituency for it - I have been out canvassing for her and to all intents and purposes it is the Kate Hoey vote that we were getting out not the Labour vote.
Archive 2008-02-10
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The turnout is crucial and both sides were canvassing frantically on Friday night to get electors to use their votes on the EU's Nice treaty.
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I've been out canvassing for the Labour Party every evening this week.
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He spent the whole month canvassing for votes.
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A day of canvassing often ends with a night of phone calls to solicit more support.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Members of Parliament are spending the weekend canvassing opinion in their constituencies.
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Proffitt has been canvassing the area since 2009 in hopes of finding enough money managers, chief executives and $800,000 in start-up funding to open the Lancaster Stock Exchange, or LanX for short.
Stock Exchanges for Local Businesses
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We left ourselves with two weeks to fight the election, the other parties have been out canvassing for five or six weeks.
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The network also works at educating the public through visiting schools, canvassing neighbourhoods, attending community events, and more.
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Each award has a three-member canvassing committee that solicits new nominations and encourages renominations.
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This was my first experience of canvassing and it all seemed completely pointless.
Times, Sunday Times
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He spent the whole month canvassing for votes.
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They've been canvassing shareholders who think they should at least have an opportunity to look at an offer.
Times, Sunday Times
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McDowell must have the gift of bilocation, because he appeared at the door of another Last Post spy in Ranelagh that night between 9pm and 10 pm canvassing.
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Our lodger is busy canvassing for her candidate and I kind of envy her youthful enthusiasm and lack of cynicism.
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The council has been canvassing local opinion/local people to get their thoughts on the proposed housing development.
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Party workers are busy canvassing local residents.
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There was little fanfare or heated canvassing among candidates, and even the democratic camp, which had put up nine hopefuls, was short of publicity stunts.
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We meet in a café in Barnsley's town centre where he has been canvassing for votes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wearing a camel coat he was canvassing voters as they went to cast their ballot.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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A day of canvassing often ends with a night of phone calls to solicit more support.
Times, Sunday Times
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Led by a police band, crowds of marching people will be canvassing support for this cause or that cause.
Times, Sunday Times
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This will give us an elimination list for the registration campaign, as well as a foundation for the 2005 election canvassing that follows.
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Canvassing lists should be sorted by side of street in cul-de-sac or one-way road situations; and climbing numbers when you are making a loop.
Waldo Jaquith - Virginia Democratic list management software.
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The board used a flexible standard that said totality of the circumstances when it clearly appears a chad is separated from the card or, in circumstances where it's not separated from the card, the remainder of the ballot appears to reflect the same type of intent from vote to vote, and the example is -- and you may have seen this from interviews from the chairman of the canvassing board on -- on television -- where an imperfectly punched ballot was reviewed by the canvassing board, known as the indented chad or the dimpled chad, and the canvassing board saw no other evidence of that type of indentation throughout the remainder of the voting, the board determined that the intent to vote was not fully formed and provable for that presidential race and, therefore, it did not count as a vote.
CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: The Florida Recount: Duval County Officials Prepare for Recount - December 9, 2000
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And to make that canvassing easier, the committee provides a multimedia tool for the canvasser that allows them to answer voter questions with video and detailed bullet points should the sell be needed.
A Virtual Arms Race: How Online Campaign Expenses Have Skyrocketed In 2010
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Canvassing for the leadership contest degenerated into a vicious campaign in which all kinds of foul means including promise of office and bribery were resorted to.
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It is already canvassing fans on whether the club should play without the company logo on its shirts or seek another sponsor.
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We meet in a café in Barnsley's town centre where he has been canvassing for votes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then they proceeded to what they called the canvass of the votes in the Legislature, not canvassing legal returns of voters in any legal form, but a canvass on the ground of newspaper reports, wild guesses, and forged affidavits.
The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland
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I have detected no nastiness or bitterness on the doorstep during my canvassing all over Britain.
The Sun
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The US has been canvassing support from other Asian states.
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As this summer's local elections are fast approaching it will not be too long before we are inundated with politicians canvassing for votes and informing the electorate of the issues they need to concern themselves with.
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As he accosted parents outside a school in Rotherhithe with a final piece of canvassing yesterday afternoon, he predicted his party would get the most seats since 1923 and the biggest share of the vote since 1983.
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The beige moulded shop-fittings remained, but the knickers and negligees made way for campaign posters and canvassing rotas and, on a plinth where the cash register once stood, a vase of red roses, which proceeded to bloom.
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Last fall, I spent seven weeks in the suburbs of Madison, Wisconsin, canvassing undecided voters for John Kerry.
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My friend had met Mr Dowd before when he had turned up at her doorstep canvassing for votes.
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A day of canvassing often ends with a night of phone calls to solicit more support.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wearing a camel coat he was canvassing voters as they went to cast their ballot.
Times, Sunday Times
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Richard Gardiner has become a fieldsman with responsibility for outside canvassing, giving advice to farmers on the best ways of placing their stock and generally promoting the company.
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He said that probable candidates were obviously canvassing for votes from affiliates.
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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
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The council has been canvassing local opinion/local people to get their thoughts on the proposed housing development.
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While canvassing, it's impossible to tell which way people will vote.
