solicit votes
Example Sentences
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In this era of advertisement, where universities build platforms and solicit votes for players, this is a rare strategy.
From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2012
It had given Japanese politics a new look; at parliamentary elections for the first time in history, candidates for office had gone hat in hand to solicit votes from ordinary folk.
From Time Magazine Archive
And the very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of unworthiness for national office.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
And when extraordinary emergencies occurred, the prince needed not to solicit votes in parliament, either for making laws or imposing taxes, both of which were now became requisite for public interest and preservation.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by Hume, David
OBS.—This meaning arose from the habit of candidates for office in Rome going around to solicit votes: hence, aspiration for office, and finally, aspiration in general.
From New Word-Analysis Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words by Swinton, William
