Sentence examples for first seek to from inspiring English sources

Pershing Square will first seek to reorganize the board and next deal with management.

President Obama has embraced their proposal, but has backed away from earlier promises to propose legislation in 2010, saying he would first seek to forge "bipartisan consensus".

The European Union trade commissioner, Karel De Gucht, said in a statement that he and fellow commissioners had agreed in principle to open an antidumping and antisubsidy case, although they would first seek to negotiate a solution with Chinese authorities.

Yet some fail to understand why Turkey did not first seek to continue the role of mediator in Syria.One explanation is simply that Turkey, like so many, believed that Mr Assad's end was nigh.

In place of failed laissez-faire, the new London mayor Sadiq Khan needs to look at rent controls, increased social housing quotients and a requirement that all new developments must first seek to make sales for local first homes.

Her ultimatum is a direct challenge to Miliband after he categorically ruled out any deal with the SNP last week, and may force the Labour leader to defend the constitutional protocols which allow a sitting prime minister to first seek to form a government, even if he leads the smaller party.

The group's leaders first sought to hold their ground.

Israel first sought to prevent reporting of the case in an injunction it sought in March 2010.

The commissioners first sought to cross the Union lines for their meeting on Jan . 29

That question vexed America when it first sought to trade with Japan in the 1850s.

The settlement was less than 1% of the $11bn that the lawsuit first sought to recover.