Sentence examples for formally seeking from inspiring English sources

They had known each other socially, but now Obama was formally seeking to hire him as a consultant.

The former prime minister had written to the government in April formally seeking support for his candidacy.

Then take a 47-year-old politician who neither holds office nor is formally seeking it; she's just giving speeches, doing TV, putting bread on the table.

Drug makers have previously been allowed to distribute reprints of articles supporting off-label uses, but only with F.D.A. permission and only if they were also formally seeking approval of those uses.

The money was supposed to pay for the development of the Yucca Mountain repository, about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, but the Energy Department said last month that it was formally seeking to withdraw its application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to operate the site.

The Guardian has formally sought the release of the Operation Russell report under freedom of information legislation.

He formally sought permission from Judge Brinkema to go pro se — to represent himself in court.

Portugal, which, like Ireland, has not formally sought a bailout, could tap European funds for an additional amount, officials said.

The envoy, Pedro Riera Escalante, former Cuban consul in Mexico City, broke with his government and formally sought political asylum in the fall.

If he decides to formally seek the nomination, NBC would be compelled to rethink any plans for a fall season of the program.

Those Tibetans say the exile movement should formally seek independence for Tibet rather than negotiate for greater autonomy in western China.