Sentence examples for seek to drop from inspiring English sources

"In the event there are, we will seek to drop charges and determine what went wrong to ensure there is no reoccurrence".

Last week, after discovering yet another instance of what the Justice Department concluded had been misconduct by the original prosecution team, Mr. Holder said he would seek to drop all charges.

General Martins refused to sign the Justice Department brief in the propagandist case and announced he would seek to drop conspiracy from the list of charges in the Sept. 11 case and focus on "legally sustainable" ones, like the classic war crime: attacking civilians.

In all, Mr. Farmer said, he would seek to drop charges in 77 of 94 cases in which defendants claimed they were stopped only because of their race or ethnicity, and were therefore seeking to suppress as evidence the weapons or drugs that troopers seized.

If they stay out of trouble with the law, federal prosecutors will seek to drop the felony charges, and the defendants will be sentenced to probation and possibly receive credit for time served.

If a member of the consortium sought to drop out, it could itself face a lawsuit from the other members.

When the Joint Chiefs of Staff later sought to drop that option, unidentified officials at the White House resisted, the article stated.

In seeking to drop the 1994 racketeering case against Mr. Bulger, federal prosecutors said they wanted to focus on getting justice for the murder victims.

The regional prosecutor sought to drop the charges, saying evidence did not show that the officers knew the teenagers were in the power station.

Quinnipiac, a private university in Hamden, Conn., with 5,400 undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students, last year sought to drop volleyball and add women's cheerleading as a sport, prompting the lawsuit from several players and Robin Sparks, the volleyball coach.

Looting of houses and shops increased Friday, and anger boiled over in unpredictable ways: residents near the city's overfilled main cemetery stoned a group of ambulance workers seeking to drop off more bodies.