Sentence examples for seeking to erect from inspiring English sources

They are seeking to erect a new billboard in San Carlos promoting Sarah Palin for president in 2012 and have gone to federal court to win permission.

The city is seeking to erect seven 400-foot wind turbines in Fresh Kills, one of which would rise from North Park's crest, said Nick Dmytryszyn, an environmental engineer in the borough commissioner's office.

Russia and China signed a treaty of "friendship and cooperation," binding the two giants closer in the next 20 years and committing them to oppose jointly much of the framework for international security that the United States is seeking to erect after the cold war, like a missile shield.

Russia and China signed a treaty of "friendship and cooperation" today, binding the two giants closer in the next 20 years and also committing them to oppose jointly much of the framework for international security that the United States is seeking to erect after the cold war.

In 1996, the Avery Research Center for African-American History alongulture, along with others, sought to erect a statue of Vesey in Charleston.

Now leaders in the region sought to erect stronger and more highly centralized states, again carefully laying out their programs in constitutions.

To them, this verdict paves the way for the completion of the Rama temple they seek to erect on the site of the mosque they destroyed.

During the 2010 midterm election, the S.B.A. List sought to erect billboards in Ohio saying that Steve Driehaus, a Democratic congressman, had "voted FOR taxpayer-funded abortion".

It should come as no surprise that Democrats and third parties generally support efforts to make it easier to vote, while Republicans often seek to erect barriers to voting, like stricter voter identification laws.

Now the barriers they had sought to erect between philosophy and science began to crumble.The ramifications of Mr Quine's theory were spelled out in "Word and Object" (1960).

So the government has sought to erect a "vertical border," with army and police checkpoints spaced at 25km intervals along roads, as well as the railway that many migrants use after they have crossed the border.