Sentence examples for seeking a form from inspiring English sources

A nervous PA, seeking a form of social entry, tried, "What beautiful flowers, Miss Brookner!" – only to receive the silencing reply, "They're all new".

Today, China and India are emulating 19th- century Japan, and seeking a form of modernisation that does not involve indiscriminate westernisation.

Their use remains a market strategy for actors seeking a form of arbitrage such as traders, transport and logistics companies and even financial firms.

That one seeks a form of justice too, but not the kind grieving relatives expected.

And he may yet seek a form of indefinite detention for some prisoners, with judicial and congressional oversight.

In an interview published today, Mr. Kostunica also appealed to Montenegro not to pursue independence, but the Montenegrin president insisted he would seek a form of statehood.

The Kremlin believes the time has come to seek a form of revenge on the west for having "humiliated" Russia after the dissolution of the USSR.

To make so weak an argument might seem barely worth the candle until one sees petitioner's final request: He seeks a form of relief to which he could not possibly be entitled -- vacatur.

So I sought a form that might account for my feeling of bewilderment and wonderment and overwhelm, one that might assume the posture of someone facing the end of the world and wondering, What's going on?

We don't need well-meaning parents lecturing us about the advantages of elite self-segregation, and giving the game away to everybody else.... Or it would be like telling admissions offices at elite schools that they should seek a form of student-body "diversity" that's mostly cosmetic, designed to flatter multicultural sensibilities without threatening existing hierarchies all that much.

But Senate Democrats either in the conference committee process, or, if that fails, through their own bill —  would seek a form other than the surcharge on income that they have previously offered — and that has failed, multiple times, to win the 60 votes necessary for passage.