canvasser

Examples of canvassed

canvassed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Constituency activists mailed party literature to local voters; distributed leaflets and posters from door to door; and canvassed voters on their doorsteps.
Alternatives to the new welfare are canvassed in the final section of the paper.
In 1992, 31 per cent of voters and 10 per cent of non-voters were canvassed.
If one is more optimistic, then the two responses canvassed above will seem more persuasive.
Australian policy stakeholders were canvassed to assess their perspectives on the challenges and the nature of disinvestment.
Yarmouth indicated his irritation that people other than his chosen candidates, who were 'persons of undoubted loyalty ', were being canvassed.
Explanations of this wave of divestments have been widely canvassed but hardly tested.
However, exposure to the telephone canvass did not have as much impact on chances of being canvassed on the doorstep.
A number of reasons will be canvassed to explain this.
Respondents may recall being canvassed by the party they supported, but not by the other parties.
Similarly, a minority of those who remembered being phoned by a party also recalled being canvassed in person.
There is a lot of material to be canvassed in the base.
Raters' views regarding the effectiveness of the training were also canvassed.
In addition to the possibility just canvassed in connection with concepts of individuals and of eventtypes, there are at least two further possibilities.
Of the major motor areas canvassed in such studies, only primary motor cortex is (usually) conspicuously silent during motor imagery.
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