Sentence examples for seeking favors from inspiring English sources

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.

One of Mr. Kruger's campaign donors, Michael Levitis, who is suspected of serving as an intermediary between the senator and those seeking favors, has been arrested in the case and accused of lying to investigators.

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.

Scholars have proposed many reasons for the rise of the anti-government activists that are pulling the G.O.P. to the right, leaving it at odds with a business community used to compromising and seeking favors from government.

"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.

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.

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.