Sentence examples for seeking to make a statement from inspiring English sources

It appeared there were far more vendors looking to make a buck selling Inaugural Chocolate Bars and Obama Incense than protesters seeking to make a statement.

It appeared that there were far more vendors looking to make a buck selling inaugural chocolate bars and Obama incense than protesters seeking to make a statement.

And a young Arthur Bremer, seeking to make a statement of his manhood for the world to see, as he put it, shot the candidate four times, paralyzing him from the waist down.

Each candidate sought to make a statement with his itinerary today.

"It was a cultural collision that had more to do with symbolic power than dollars, as each man sought to make a statement about who who should rule New York," Chris McNickle wrote in his 1993 book, "To Be Mayor of New York".

Ahh, 134 years later, you may say, attitudes had changed, in November 1985… a solicitor with a small private practice, but also a senior legal assistant for Times newspapers, sought to make a statement in open court to announce the settlement of a libel case brought against Cyril Smith by Leo Abse and other members of the Labour party.

But after another week or so of race-related controversy, with the low point coming in Serbia last Tuesday, when the England Under-21 player Danny Rose was subjected to monkey chants from the crowd, the Ferdinands have sought to make a statement that might help matters to move forward.

But one project from the Wearable Technology Lab at the University of Minnesota seeks to make a statement on the need to make sure such technologies make the user look and feel good.

Security analysts had warned that attacks could increase during Ramadan, the Muslim holy month that began this week, as militants seek to make a statement.

He tells Klayman that he sought to make a statement about "the diversity of ideas within China," and how "every entity is its own thing".

Clearly, David Cameron is seeking to make a bold statement by appointing more women to his cabinet, and it would be naive to believe that the clothes worn yesterday had not been chosen with utmost care.