Sentence examples for seek favors from inspiring English sources

Officer Marshall's willingness to seek favors from other officers could call into question his impartiality in administering breath tests to drivers.

Given such risks, it is little wonder that the home, protective and constrictive, was where women concentrated their spiritual energies, turning to portable icons to seek favors, advice and solace.

PAGE A12 OBAMA TO REPORT ON CONTACTS President-elect Barack Obama is scheduled to release an internal review of the communications that his advisers had with the office of Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois, who is accused by federal prosecutors of trying to seek favors in exchange for filling Mr. Obama's vacant Senate seat.

Yet activists who promote ­enlarging the size and scope of government always seem to be shocked when one program after another is hijacked by corporations that find it easier to seek favors in Washington than ­customers in the marketplace.

Indeed, the terms of the Apollo-Apollo deal already seek favors from the Obama Administration.

They're salespeople, after a fashion, and they have to seek favor with the winners.

But, with these informal dances, which are intended to seek favor from the forces of nature, the animist echoes are a little strong for some; Oomittuk told me that Christian whaling captains tend to stay away.

As the Garden's top lobbyist, it was his job to seek favor, or avoid reprisal, from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on behalf of Mr. Dolan, who had crushed the mayor's hopes for a new West Side stadium in 2005 with a campaign of blistering ads and relentless opposition.

Abandoning hope of regaining favor in France, and despite the dangers of travel over the war-torn Flemish border, he moved to Antwerp in July of 1528 to seek favor at the rival Habsburg court.

McConnell has taken steps over the past few months to seek favor with Paul and the more conservative constituents who helped him win in 2010.

In other words, companies that want to prosper in the anti-capitalist world Obama is creating in America will first have to make their peace with Big Labor before heading to Washington hat-and-checkbooks-in-hand to seek favor from the strong men in the White House and their enforcers in the Treasury Department and elsewhere in the executive branch.