Sentence examples for have sometimes sought from inspiring English sources

Governments of both main parties have sometimes sought to increase the tax take a little but have not succeeded, usually because an economic slowdown cut receipts.

Some thirty thousand North Koreans have defected to South Korea over the years, but politically connected individuals have sometimes sought to put more distance between themselves and the regime.

Where Premier League opponents have sometimes sought to fight fire with fire in this fixture – allowing themselves to be drawn into physical battles – Garcia's Roma had simply passed their way around these opponents.

Chávez officials have sometimes sought to tarnish the opposition by claiming it would curtail the government's flagship social policies such as the Cuban-staffed Misión Barrio Adentro program.

WASHINGTON — Representative Michele Bachmann suffers from migraine headaches so intense that she has sometimes sought emergency medical treatment, but the congresswoman said Tuesday that the condition would not preclude her from serving as president if elected.

The gray rainy day began with a funeral Mass at a working-class Roman Catholic church in Boston where the senator had sometimes sought comfort, without entourage or advance notice.

When one of Mr Lee senior's young inquisitioners suggested that a bit more freedom of expression would make the country stronger, he retorted: "You mean to tell me that what is happening in Thailand and the Philippines is binding the people, building the nation?"Given the PAP's popularity, the opposition has sometimes sought to gain by losing.

Presidents often launch America into armed conflicts without formal declarations of war, and have sometimes not sought any kind of congressional authorisation, for example.

A former gang member said he had helped pay off police and soldiers who had also sometimes sought sexual services themselves, at times keeping the women for days.

The experience has been that RCTs of calcium and vitamin D, while often positive, have sometimes failed to find the sought for causal link.

While writing expert reports for lawyers acting on behalf of Angolans seeking asylum, I have sometimes been astounded by the level of ignorance and inaccuracy in Home Office reports: failing to understand which languages are spoken across the country, for example.