The barber was tinkling the metal to canvass for business.

理发师在胡同中敲着唤头招揽生意。

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The party decided to canvass for support of its new policy.

党决定争取民众对它的新政策的支持。

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After a quick canvass of the governors present, I told Strauss the vote would be twenty to four for Carter.

我对在场的各位州长进行了一番简短的游说拉票，接着，我对施特劳斯说，在24个人当中，有20人会投票支持卡特，另外4人不支持。

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But then the man who thought the two MLAs were on the right track added "and you can say that came from a republican", which also was not necessarily that heartening if you are planning to canvass for votes around unionist areas of Lagan Valley or South Down.

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Normally he works on an A4 sized canvass but for Imax it had to be four times this size.

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