Sentence examples for seek to prolong from inspiring English sources
The richer members of the EU might seek to prolong the life of their "temporary" restrictions.
Our existence is a given and for the most part we seek to prolong it as much as possible.
ECUADORIANS have not been gentle to leaders who seek to prolong their hold on power beyond what the constitution allows.
Cast in the hit-of-the-moment mould of The Great British Bake-Off, it's a show in which amateur artists seek to prolong their stay in the TV spotlight by demonstrating their skills in portraiture, still life and landscapes.
Either way, the process could drag on for weeks, a period during which Mr. Maranhão could seek to prolong his stay as speaker by appealing any decision to remove him to Brazil's Supreme Court, legal scholars said.
You might expect the religious to accept death as God's will and, while not hurrying towards it, not to seek to prolong their lives using heroic and often traumatic medical procedures.
Like Mr. Moneo, Mr. Siza seeks to prolong the architectural sequence to its furthest extreme.
He seeks "to prolong a friendship which summer had almost made an idyll of...
These are precisely the people whom a policy that sought to prolong the amount of education would target.
"The main ally of the Siniora government was the Americans and they didn't seek to end the war but in fact sought to prolong it.
Increasing numbers of travel addicts seeking to prolong that carefree holiday feeling for -- oh, say, ever -- are clamoring for hotel or motel style at home.
