Sentence examples for eager to extract from inspiring English sources

He seemed eager to extract a connection between his earliest influences and his current life as a diplomat.

Pentagon officials are eager to extract the United States from a third armed conflict in a Muslim country as quickly as possible.

For New York's technology community, eager to extract itself from Silicon Valley's shadow, Friday's fund-raiser for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee at a penthouse loft in NoHo was a heady taste of power.

It now appears unlikely that other lawmakers eager to extract conditions aimed at promoting competition and increasing service to out-of-the-way cities will be able to attach more than a few token conditions to the rescue bill.

Yet the foreigners still flocked to foggy, cosmopolitan London from Europe and the New World: painters, writers, exotic dancers, sportsmen, fortunetellers and cultural speculators, eager to extract cash and inspiration from what Emerson called "this magnificent machine," Britain at the height of its imperial power.

Particularly telling will be a decision on whether to give a go-ahead to companies eager to extract natural gas from shale rock, a method currently being explored in northern England, said Kevin Anderson, a professor at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Manchester.

Companies are also eager to discover and extract more H2O.

With Republican leaders eager to show they have extracted concessions from the talks, this could be another one.

When the Treasury began discussing the program's outlines, Mr. Barofsky said he became concerned that it would open the door to fraudulent foreclosure rescue schemes, in which large upfront fees could be extracted from desperate borrowers eager to participate in what was supposed to be a free government program.

Earlier cases at the tribunal have demonstrated that an uncooperative defendant, acting as his own lawyer, can extract concessions from a court eager to appear fair.

Other memorial websites are schlocky, loaded with funeral home pop-up ads or all too eager to let you post content before extracting fees.