Sentence examples for representative sought from inspiring English sources

Robert B. Zoellick, the United States trade representative, sought to resolve the dispute without an appeal.

Mr. Liu and Bill de Blasio, the public advocate, both abstained when the mayor's representative sought to continue disclosing all names, and the mayor's office agreed to a new proposal to withhold some of them.

Both the commerce secretary, Carlos T. Gutierrez, and Susan C. Schwab, the United States trade representative, sought to assure the Chinese that appealing to the W.T.O. to adjudicate disputes, or imposing duties on Chinese goods deemed to have been dumped on American markets, were not acts of bad faith.

Mr. Soltanieh, the Iranian representative, sought to portray the discussions in a more positive way, saying that after eight hours of negotiations, the talks would continue at an unspecified date "in order to finalize the particularities of the talks and reach a conclusion," Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

Mr. Turner was not the only representative seeking to capitalize on the drama.

With Promised Land (2012), which starred Damon as a gas-company representative seeking to obtain drilling rights in a rural Pennsylvania community, Van Sant dramatized contemporary disputes over fracking.

In the populist drama Promised Land (2012), which he cowrote with costar John Krasinski, Damon played a gas-company representative seeking to obtain drilling rights in a rural community.

When I received an e-mail from the outgoing CACSW postdoc representative seeking a volunteer to be her replacement, I jumped at the chance.

Republican Ralph Norman, 63, a real estate developer and former state representative seeking to fill the seat that White House budget director Mick Mulvaney vacated, has called for raising Social Security's retirement age and reducing benefits for the top 10percentt of earners.

A week later, on September 1, 2006, the COB's Annual Assembly decided by acclamation that Rio de Janeiro would be the Brazilian representative seeking to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2016.

The players' representatives sought to play down the importance of the decision.