potential supporters

collocation in English

meaningsofpotentialandsupporter

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potential
adjective[before noun]
uk
/pəˈten.ʃəl/us
/poʊˈten.ʃəl/
possible when the necessary ...
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supporter
noun[C]
uk
/səˈpɔː.tər/us
/səˈpɔːr.t̬ɚ/
someone who supports a particular idea, group, ...
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Local grievances and resentments were carefully catalogued by cadres, and detailed information was harvested on eachpotentialsupporteror recruit for later use.
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The set up networks of activists in every county charged with visiting everypotentialsupporterin a specified neighborhood, especially in the critical last days before the election.
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Getting potential supporters to open those books or inquire about those instruments, however, required that their interests be piqued through widely available advertisements.
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Parties, candidates, or their campaigners do not generally use random dial techniques, but re-contact potential supporters.
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In this manner, they were able to organise a series of festive encounters with potential supporters and build an alliance for the upcoming elections.
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Actors arriving later may find that resources in the environment (for example, potential supporters) are already committed to other patterns of mobilization.
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He stepped up his efforts to rouse potential supporters of repeal.
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The ability of political hostesses to ' inveigle ' potential supporters was crucial to the opposition during their long period in the political wilderness in the late eighteenth century.
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It is their only desire to do justice to those whom they regard as their own potential supporters.
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We are wise to treat those who have not yet come within this new machinery as friends and as potential supporters.
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That number represents the season tickets and other facilities that have been taken up by potential supporters.
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They are middle class, and perhaps potential supporters of the so-called alliance parties.
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I feel that their pigheaded attitude in this area could well be the straw which breaks the camel's back by antagonising millions of their potential supporters throughout the country.
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If any party chose to behave in the way that has been mentioned, it would find those key potential supporters running a mile in the opposite direction.
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Each of the 48 offices was given names of potential supporters that needed to be contacted.
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Their very presence served to undermine trust and scare off potential supporters.
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Jacksons increasing paranoia about infiltration and his distrust of newcomers also drove away many potential supporters, and the group dwindled and faded away.
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