Sentence examples for directly seek from inspiring English sources

"We don't have any litmus-test questions," he said, meaning the kind that directly seek answers to how a person would vote on a given issue like abortion.

Richard A. Daynard, the director of the Tobacco Products Liability Project at the Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, said he believed that the Castano Group could directly seek fees in only one of the later round of cases.

But Raymond, through his anti-heroic alter ego, makes the point again and again that there must be someone to speak for the dead, to answer the bellow of justice from beyond the grave even if they didn't directly seek him out.

But Goldin pointed out, too, that state laws like the Fair Pay Act — and, at the national level, the Equal Pay Act — play a valuable role in addressing pay inequities within firms, even if they don't directly seek to reform industries or the workforce as a whole.

As an employment-focused program, CEO did not directly seek to target cognitive behavioral skills in the way that CBT programs do.

This approach would also have the benefit of allowing private corporations directly seek remedies from the Chinese government through arbitration instead of having to persuade the US Trade Representative to take the case to the WTO.

It attacked Amazon directly, seeking to build a national network of warehouses while offering a similarly broad selection of goods.

Not since the Korean War has the central bank directly sought to manage specific long-term interest rates.

There is no evidence that he directly sought to influence his former colleagues or other government officials in ways that would have required him to register as a lobbyist or could have run afoul of the restrictions on former lobbyists entering the Obama administration.

It's difficult to advance beyond stereotypes when assessing who players are likely to be at this stage, but for a title like Monster Hunter, which hasn't received as much Western mainstream press and hasn't yet become part of mass popular consciousness, the game plays to a niche audience of people who have directly sought it out because people they know and respect are talking about it.

The ads had apparently targeted a range of political — and socially divisive — issues, rather than directly seeking to promote individual candidates.