Sentence examples for seeking to get rid of from inspiring English sources
Why then, would someone like Mr. Clarke want to take over a troubled mine and the environmental obligations that Patriot Coal was seeking to get rid of?
Typically, the witch-hunting syndicate found clients in local businessmen seeking to get rid of competitors and candidates for village offices who sought to eliminate political opponents, the police said.
Hearst has responded in kind, and in a legal filing on Monday night disclosed internal Times documents suggesting that Mr. Blethen had been seeking to "get rid of" The Post-Intelligencer since 1985.
The Raptors' interim general manager, Wayne Embry, was merely seeking to get rid of Rose's $16.9 million contract and acquire an expendable one so the team could be close to $10 million under the salary cap.
And just as Mr. Ibargüen hoped they would, many of those who have been calling are people in their 20's and 30's seeking to get rid of their glasses and contact lenses, said Marla Bercuson, director for marketing and communications at the eye institute.
Rather than seeking to get rid of Magruder, the district should be grateful to him, even if his presence sometimes makes the board's job a little tougher and less comfortable.
Republicans have sought to get rid of the monarchy, an imperial comfort blanket in 1901 that seems irrelevant to many in 2011.
A common half-serious suggestion was that Putin had had her locked in a nunnery — just as the Russian tsars did when they sought to get rid of unwanted tsarinas.
Boivin said that the F.B.I. sought to get rid of the F.A.A.'s liaison man at headquarters, because, in Boivin's words, "he was seen as too pushy about trying to get information".
The Sixth Avenue Association, a merchants' group, had long sought to get rid of the crowds of scruffy job seekers who congregated outside the many storefront agencies along Sixth Avenue in the 30's.
"This amendment seeks to get rid of what I've kind of nicknamed the 'advisory death panel,' " Cain said, using a term for end-of-life counselling that is popular among the far right.
