Sentence examples for seek against from inspiring English sources

The settlement talks have heightened the focus on what remedy the Justice Department and states might seek against Microsoft.

A range of measures – including fines, injunctions or even, ultimately, incarceration – are available for local authorities to seek against any party that persists in breaching planning regulations.

Our resolve must now be expressed through many careful steps, or we will never achieve the victory we seek against Al Qaeda.

The E.U. made global climate control a key plank of its geopolitical strategy in 2001 when President George W. Bush said he would let the Kyoto Protocol languish rather than seek, against impossible odds, to win ratification in the U.S. Senate.

While the action the United States would seek against North Korea was still being debated, one senior official said that Mr. Bush and his aides would ask Russia and China to exercise some "direct leverage" against North Korea by restricting trade.

Despite fresh signs that the plaintiffs have not yet agreed on what sanction to seek against Microsoft, they jointly issued a stinging and disdainful rebuttal yesterday to the company's legal arguments last week that it had not violated the nation's antitrust laws.

The president is seeking, against Congressional opposition, to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour.

But that is quickly changing, based on the rising number of investigations and the penalties being sought against restaurateurs.

"We agree with the European Commission that injunctions should only be sought against unwilling licensees," Ms. Dove said in a statement.

Orders that are sought against people who do not fall into those categories have to be sought in criminal court.

Parks Commissioner Henry J. Stern said damages "in the seven figures" may be sought against the building's owners.