Sentence examples for anxious to exploit from inspiring English sources

William Pitt, the British prime minister, was particularly anxious to exploit this opportunity, but could not do so for lack of ready ships and men; some 7,000 troops had been sent to the Caribbean in the preceding winter.

I've never been exposed to this," he says, "I'm really not a very media person". Pusztai says James, on the other hand, was anxious to exploit the media attention.

· The Department for Education and Skills and the Prime Minister's Office are anxious to exploit every opportunity to export British learning and skills expertise across the globe, says an intriguing item in the Association of Learning Providers' newsletter.

Anxious to exploit the anti-German feeling that the medal aroused, the Foreign Office's propaganda department commissioned the department store magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge to mass-produce exact copies, of which 250,000 were sold at a shilling each, with the revenue donated to charity.

The image of the new pint serves two main agendas; those of artisanal craft beer fantasists who think sincerely that "there has never been a better time to be a beer drinker" and political figures anxious to exploit whatever connection remains between the pint and the common man.

Many rural communities depend for water on the Great Artesian Basin, which is Australia's biggest groundwater reserve and lies deep under the region that corporations are anxious to exploit.Fracking involves pumping water, sand and chemicals to fracture the coal seams and bring their mixture of gas and saline water to the surface.

They are more anxious to avoid such humiliation than to exploit fresh opportunities: they regard a state warehouse bursting with grain as a sign of success, and imports of wheat as a mark of defeat.

At a time when the Irish real estate market is collapsing, it was easy for opponents to exploit the fears of an anxious electorate.

The accelerated timetable suggests that his campaign is both eager to exploit a commanding lead in the polls and anxious that voters may blame the incumbent for a souring economy.

Some want to exploit it for sightseeing.

And humans tend to exploit their power.