He sought repeatedly to link himself to President-elect Barack Obama's message of change.
They sought repeatedly to quantify the extent of the eavesdropping, only to be stonewalled by the intelligence community.
The government has sought repeatedly to regain the public's trust, most recently by scrapping its former nuclear regulatory agency and creating a new one.
But the substance of the issue may be less significant than the exchange that it sparked, as Mr. Santorum sought repeatedly to directly engage Mr. Rommey.
The difficulty is that, as Fiji's military leader will soon find out, campaigning for election will also empower the very voices he has sought repeatedly to silence.
Mr. Moussa sought repeatedly to drive a wedge into Mr. Aboul Fotouh's unlikely coalition of secular-minded liberals, moderate Islamists and the ultraconservatives known as Salafis.
In her more than thirty years of research on touch, Tiffany Field, the head of the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine, has sought repeatedly to disentangle the two.
According to Mr. Valukas, Mr. Fuld ordered Lehman executives to reduce the bank's debt levels, and senior officials sought repeatedly to apply Repo 105 to dress up the firm's results.
In letters, lunch meetings, and shareholder resolutions, the descendants of John D Rockefeller, founder of the oil empire that eventually became Exxon, sought repeatedly to persuade the company to abandon climate denial and begin shifting their business towards clean energy.
Mr. Pataki, a Republican, has sought repeatedly, through tax cuts, regulatory mandates and other steps, to lower the price of electricity in New York, which has some of the nation's highest rates.
Even as Secretary Powell has sought repeatedly on this trip to start parallel security and political discussions, Mr. Ayalon, the adviser to Mr. Sharon, repeated Israel's longstanding position that a cease-fire is the key to any progress.
