Sentence examples for bureau sought from inspiring English sources

A spokesman for the Chinese statistics bureau sought to play down the disappointing data Monday.

Under his leadership, the bureau sought to measure more than the basic skills gauged by state-mandated exams.

While the bureau sought information specifically about private loans, some comments indicate that borrowers are often unsure about whether their loans are federal or private.

The bureau sought the wiretap on Mr. Page because of his previous contacts with a Russian intelligence officer in 2013 and material in the dossier.

The bureau sought voluntary interviews last year with 5,000 Arab-Americans in its antiterrorism effort, and agents are focusing on several thousand Iraqis in the United States in voluntary interviews and secret surveillance as Washington moves toward a possible war with Iraq.

That letter to the court in particular stands in contrast to the FBI's amicus from San Bernardino victims represented by former federal judge Stephen Larson, which the bureau sought before it had even moved to compel Apple to unlock the iPhone.

The black bars obscuring the specific kinds of data the FBI sought from Merrill in 2004 will lift, revealing categories of information the bureau seeks to acquire outside the normal warrant process.

The latest session is scheduled for Thursday as the committee chairman, Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, and Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, a Republican critic of the bureau, seek to remedy what they contend is a failure by Congress to scrutinize the bureau.

-- "FBI leaders are warily trying to navigate their way through the politically charged background-check investigation into … Kavanaugh, as the bureau seeks to protect itself now — and after the midterm elections — from what could be fierce congressional criticism," per Devlin Barrett, Matt Zapotosky, Carol D. Leonnig and Tom Hamburger.

When a functional bureau seeks the cooperation from other functional bureaus, because various functional bureaus have different power statuses within the government, some cooperating bureaus are more prominent or some bureaus are unwilling to cooperate due to relevant interests, then friction will occur.

The bureau has sought comment and criticism of its proposal.