Sentence examples for seeking to grant from inspiring English sources

In an interview, Mr. Wetjen explained that he was seeking to grant more flexibility to the markets.

That same night, Representative Bob Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican, reintroduced legislation seeking to grant copyright protection to designers, presumably discouraging exactly that kind of knockoff fashion.

Lord Mandelson is seeking to grant himself significant powers in the fight against copyright infringement – the ability to do just about anything so long as it's in the interest of protecting copyright, and without having to go through parliament.

According to those documents, the Obama administration is seeking to grant corporations the ability to directly challenge regulations in countries involved in the talks -- a political power that was typically reserved for sovereign nations until the 1990s.

For nearly a decade, Clinton and Bush administration officials have sought to grant Mexico the dolphin-safe designation, as that government has taken steps to reduce dolphin kills.

Other amendments, like those proposed by John McCain and Kay Bailey Hutchison, sought to grant even broader immunity and allowed the National Security Agency to be a direct recipient of cyber threat information.

According to groups that support the outcome, the council sought to grant more pounds to boats that traditionally fished in higher-risk areas and therefore were more likely to run into overfished species.

Defense attorneys argued that a September 2015 trial date – or any additional delay the judge seeks to grant – would be more realistic and fair, given the "extraordinary complexity and international dimensions" of the case.

Unless the government seeks to grant an exemption for supported accommodation, we have grave concerns that our position within the voluntary sector would become untenable, and the impact for our vulnerable client group and the wider community could be catastrophic".

Among the offending powers the government seeks to grant itself are the power to ban newspapers, to jail journalists for writing unfavourably about it, and to ban foreigners from owning media companies in Zimbabwe.ZANU has a solid majority in parliament, not least because Mr Mugabe appoints a fifth of the members.

On Monday he proposed that Congress seek to grant an amnesty to the majority of Farc members not involved in serious crimes within the current legal framework and to offer "effective protection" for Farc fighters, though it was unclear if those measure were part of his plan to fix the agreement.