Sentence examples for partly seeking from inspiring English sources

By backing the tests, Mrs. Merkel was partly seeking to assuage public concern ahead of a sensitive election on Sunday in the state of Baden-Württemberg, where there are a number of reactors.

As these brown bits of sustenance pause on water's surface, then begin their dreamlike descent to those Fruity Pebble rocks, I think of the sugary tea and cinnamon toast that my mother, 10 years gone, would serve me when I stayed home from school, partly sick, partly seeking reassurance that she would always, always be there when I needed her.

The reason for this is to be partly sought in the relatively high costs related to the development of a diagnostic system.

The study might partly seek to answer the above questions, and also provide policy makers and concerned people more information about residents' attitudes toward environment and natural resources as well as the benefits of biodiversity conservation.

Mayor Young maintained power and popularity despite economic decline, however, partly by giving blacks a sense of pride and partly by seeking to rally city residents against the mostly white surrounding communities, calling them the "hostile suburbs". But in this election things are different.

But Alice was accustomed to attacking a problem partly by seeking out the people who knew the most about it.

The JOBS Act is an annoyingly named piece of legislation that purports to create jobs partly by seeking to increase the number of initial public offerings.

Golding became a writer partly to seek revenge.

The family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area when he was 5, partly to seek treatment for his asthma.

Partly, Cameron seeks to purge the humiliation of losing the Commons' vote on bombing Syria in the last parliament.

I have come here partly to seek reassurance that the unthinkable will not happen again, this time at the very heart of Europe.