Sentence examples for and seeking to transform from inspiring English sources

Five hundred years after Cortés, neo-conservative adventurers are leading us eastward and seeking to transform the Middle East.

This is a good example of a wider tension in violence prevention work with men, between meeting men 'where they are' on the one hand, and seeking to transform the gendered identities and relations among men which sustain men's violence against women on the other.

The plan also cuts $913bn from Medicaid and seeks to transform the program into lump-sum payments to states, referred to as block grants.

The reformer is a figure who stands within a religious tradition and seeks to transform or revitalize it in the light of his own experience and insight.

An early convert to ­filesharing, he has declared the album format dead, and seeks to transform the CD of a dozen or so songs from a set-in-stone, finished artefact into the ­starting point for an ever-growing ­virtual ­product.

Evans succeeded him and sought to transform the group into a political power.

The real threat to Burmese Buddhism is from within, from religious extremists who subvert our religion's nonviolent underpinnings and seek to transform it into a force of hate and intolerance.

"A green-collar job is in essence a blue-collar job that has been upgraded to address the environmental challenges of our country," said Lucy Blake, chief executive of the Apollo Alliance, a coalition of environmental groups, labor unions and politicians seeking to transform the economy into one based on renewable energy.

He brought in Jenny Holzer and Donald Judd to energize the displays of Biedermeier furniture, Mamluk carpets and assorted applied arts in what had become a fusty storehouse founded as an imperial entity in 1864; organized surveys of Soviet art; opened an art center in Los Angeles; and is seeking to transform one of Vienna's Nazi-era antiaircraft towers into a contemporary art space.

For example, in the case of interventions on energy system there is still a separation between interventions seeking to reconfigure consumption patterns, mostly in the built environment, and interventions seeking to transform the systems of energy production.

Then there are disruptive influences that percolate up from below: changing customer preferences and, even more important, outside visionaries seeking to transform and modernise the industry.