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Most of them did so to make a political point and to gain publicity.

I think they thought it was a way to gain publicity for their petition.

However, he does accept the word only gained publicity through journalism.

The project gained publicity in local newspapers and radio stations.

Several issues relating to immigration gained publicity in the early years of the century.

Is it an attempt to gain publicity to influence a pending court case?

Regardless of how it happened, the incident gained publicity quickly.

Network executives also said that the church might have been more interested in gaining publicity.

It was looking to gain publicity to help increase sales of its roof repair products.

"And we are gaining publicity and interest now because of our growth."

All the parties concerned gained publicity which they would probably not have achieved otherwise.

Cynics, though, might say these are attempts to gain publicity.

There are other ways to gain publicity and get the message accross.

Its basic purpose is to help newer artists who are not very popular to gain publicity.

But surely there are easier - and safer - ways to gain publicity.

To the general public, it looked like a cheap and particularly horrendous way of gaining publicity.

According to Riggs, the band's management censored the image themselves to gain publicity.

Skeptics say he has made a career of gaining publicity by losing races.

"They tried to exploit the Louima case" to gain publicity.

The issue first gained publicity in 1971, when 10 bodies were found during construction work for a water mains.

The association gained publicity in the spring of 2006 when it published the Muhammad-cartoons on its web site.

For unknown reasons such temples have not gained publicity even though those who know the temple visit it very often.

Instead, he gained publicity from small, local-based newspapers and media outlets.

The announcement of a female driver gained publicity for the Brabham team.

Penny Ann was often accused of trying to gain publicity more so than mounts.