Sentence examples for seek less from inspiring English sources

And the Palestinians could still subsequently seek less formal recognition of statehood through the General Assembly.

High-powered men seek less driven women, who will take care of them and their children.

I instinctively ignored advice to get out of the television news business to seek less stressful work.

This case is promoted not by consumers but by Microsoft's competitors, who seek less competition, not more.

She said her sculptures, while representations of meticulously gathered data, seek less to teach viewers explicitly about science than to make them think about how they think.

China and the other principal powers seek less to overthrow the existing international order than to join it or something like it.

Under the Fourth Amendment, the city had a duty to seek less-intrusive methods of searching, and as the court noted, those methods were available.

But nobody yet knows how large the premium will be, and whether it will be enough to persuade schools actively to seek less-advantaged children.

In overturning the law on Constitutional grounds, the judge, Loretta A. Preska of Federal District Court in Manhattan, said that although its purpose -- to limit smoking by minors -- was commendable, the state had failed to seek less-restrictive remedies.

In announcing the decision to seek less-ambitious trade agreements with a group of relatively small economies, Robert B. Zoellick, the United States trade representative, tacitly confirmed the glacial pace of wider talks here this week aimed at creating a Free Trade Area of the Americas among 34 countries in the Western Hemisphere.

He said it may be too soon to call the end of the yen carry trade, which is estimated to be worth as much as $1 trillion, "but the possibility that a major source of global market liquidity might dry up should be sufficient to cause investors to seek less-risky bolt-holes in anticipation of further equity and bond market volatility".