enlistment

Examples of enlisting

enlisting

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

But his lengthy invective depended on enlisting a throng of sympathetic critics behind him by denying a popular, female audience.
The new regime exerted itself in enlisting for itself wealth coupled with talent.
This was a novel way of enlisting audience participation.
That is, modelling aims to make the process of producing predictions from hypotheses more effective by enlisting the aid of an analogical mechanism.
These staff began to build support for their efforts at the local level by enlisting the help of both individuals and organizations.
To date, service provision remains predominantly top-down but does emphasize the importance of enlisting community support and community networks.
This practice centers on the enlisting of the machine or any commercially produced object.
Enlisting lawyers or trades unions to challenge unfair practices was regarded as risky, since it could alienate clients and sour partnerships.
This was an advantage of enlisting at the headquarters site of the unit's pay office.
Many had joined before 1914 but their numbers were swelled by their friends and colleagues enlisting in the first rush of wartime patriotism.
In practice, this enlisting of a higher power in the healing of malady may play out in a couple of ways.
In addition, its rewards are more competitively fought for, and show signs of enlisting communal and regional identities in their pursuit.
Such research was necessary, among other reasons, in order to make informed decisions when enlisting recruits for industrial and agricultural labor.
Inescapable suffering, which is frequently reported in palliative care settings, can be the means by which caregivers and family members find meaning by enlisting an attitudinal change.
Fox alludes elliptically to a state in which research on quality of care drew attention to obesity, but enlisting the schools in the service of healthier eating meets resistance.
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