Sentence examples for life sought from inspiring English sources

He married his stepsister Ellen, and for the rest of his life sought to please Thomas Ewing, a leading barrister of the day.

In recent weeks, Mr. Bhatti, despondent about the murder of Mr. Taseer and fearing for his own life, sought advice on how to persist in his campaign for tolerance in the face of such threats.

"The network was starting to take hold," Mr. Mullins continued, and so was the rustic professor's life sought by Dean Sutin, whose wife, Margaret M. Lawton, was also on the faculty.

Men who followed "Yeken Kignit" and a similar program called "Dhimbibba" ("Getting the best out of life") sought to be tested for HIV at four times the rate of non-listeners, while the demand for contraceptives rose 52 percent among married women who listened to the programs.

" 'Defiance' celebrates strong men (who in real life sought no such glory) at the expense of those whose weakness — whose inability to fight back, or to stay alive — was not a moral failure but a fact of history," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times in December.

Mr. Shabazz, 28, spent much of his life seeking to make peace with his past.

A mopey, drug-addled adulterer who drifts through life seeking meaning doesn't leave that legacy.

Following that life, he crawled back to the monastic life, seeking succour for his troubled soul.

We do this in many areas of life, seeking shortcuts or mental tricks we can use to find an answer.

ARWA, a researcher at Oxford University, spends her working life seeking out the causes of blood-borne diseases.

I have lived my life seeking new adventures, always eager to bring my "treasures" back to my hometown.