Sentence examples for seeking to drop from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

PARIS — Prosecutors in the northern French city of Lille are seeking to drop charges filed against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former chief of the International Monetary Fund, in connection with a ring that recruited prostitutes for sex parties from Paris to Washington, according to a statement released on Tuesday by the prosecutors' office.

Charlie Savage wrote in the New York Times this weekend that Martins "may appear to have gone rogue" by seeking to drop the conspiracy charges against confessed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-defendants.

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

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.

On Thursday, 27 protesters – including the Rana Plaza survivor and Akter – were arrested at the headquarters of The Children's Place in Secaucus, New Jersey, as they sought to drop off a letter to the company's chief executive.

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.