Sentence examples for seeking favor from inspiring English sources
"He's not calibrating his responses politically, seeking favor from the left or the right".
For instance, a 2011 case against Tyson Foods involved seeking favor from Mexican government officials by hiring their wives for no-show jobs, a clear violation of the law.
MINSK, Belarus — At the end of the cold war, the leadership of the K.G.B., demoralized and seeking favor with the pro-Western reformers then coming to power in post-Soviet states, briefly opened its files on the accused assassin of John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald.
And Kim would have to swallow his pride and accept the appearance of being a supplicant seeking favor from those threatening him.
A dozen lawmakers are leaving this weekend for the annual conference in Maui that is partially paid for by interests seeking favor from the Legislature, including energy companies, tobacco and telecommunication firms, and public employee unions.
They are unaccountable to the public and are intent on shaking down the moneyed interests seeking favors and/or favorable treatment from the powerful.
Media corporations, by contrast, are seeking favors -- big regulatory favors that increase their hold on our culture, airwaves and wallets.
The detective told Mr. Diana that he had access to stolen property, investigators said, and eventually began seeking favors from the officers through Mr. Diana.
That investigation also swept up another Brooklyn Democrat, Assemblyman William F. Boyland Jr., who prosecutors have said received a phantom consulting job at a local hospital in return for seeking favors for the hospital's parent company.
Reports from Cairo in recent days have said that he became wealthy working as a go-between for Egyptian and foreign investors seeking favored treatment from his father's government.
In the Brooklyn investigation, one of Mr. Kruger's campaign donors, Michael Levitis, who is suspected of serving as an intermediary between the senator and those seeking favors, pleaded guilty this month to lying to federal investigators in the case.
