Sentence examples for seeking to impress from inspiring English sources

A young journalist once seeking to impress her visiting parents took advantage of the fact.

Wade leads the Aussie auditions Matthew Wade is one of five Australian players seeking to impress against Sussex in the hope of winning a place in the team for the third Ashes Test.

But the publication of the photo on Khouz News, a website focusing on news from the southwest province of Khuzestan, suggests the regime is primarily seeking to impress an internal audience with "evidence" of scientific advancement.

Mr. Xi was seeking to impress the business audience, with many of those present from the tech industry, but how far his words would be believed in Washington, and in the business community, was not clear.

If Mr. McCain is elected president, the ties between the two could boost Mr. Giuliani's appeal to companies seeking to impress the administration, though Mr. Giuliani has insisted that he does not formally lobby.

Much of that ambivalence stems from the space race, which played out against a geopolitical landscape of intense nationalism that used space as a power play — both through the hard power of aiding weapons research and the soft power of seeking to impress newly independent former colonies.

He said the message his staff seek to impress is one of self-worth.

But, like other sights with which he'd sought to impress me, the hive was undiscoverable.

She writes in an easy, cursive script, a clear but relaxed style that does not seek to impress.

On one painful occasion, however, I became the victim of an aggressive stammerer I sought to impress.

There are no facts of the case, Jack adds, but "two fictions, which the opposing teams each seek to impress upon the jury".