Sentence examples for seeking to wipe from inspiring English sources

The police have attributed those attacks and others to rival drug gangs seeking to wipe out opponents who are undergoing treatment for addictions.

In recent years, however, more and more brokers have been seeking to wipe their slates clean by seeking "expungements," or the deletion of negative records or other problems.

Many Uighurs are also convinced that Beijing is seeking to wipe out their language and culture through assimilation and education policies that favor Mandarin over Uighur in schools and government jobs.

Nearly three years to the day that Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and Wall Street teetered on the brink, federal regulators are seeking to wipe out the infamous phenomenon that Wall Street is too big to fail.

In November, Ms. Halloran, a registered nurse, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, seeking to wipe away $116,521 in credit card debt, while retaining a 2005 Jaguar and their home.

Just before the big battle, Knightley gives a stirring Braveheart-style pre-battle speech to rouse the troops in which she talks about "freedom" and "the pirate way", which the nasty British Empire is seeking to wipe out.

The government has sought to wipe out Papuan culture through forced assimilation and mass immigration.

Eritrea has not gone the way of other African countries, which have sought to wipe out reminders of their colonial past.

Under the cease-fire, Mr. Sadr has sought to wipe some of the stain away from the militia's more brutal past activities.

In 1999, first as prime minister and then as president, Vladimir Putin seized Chechen's capital, Grozny, and sought to wipe out Chechen separatism once and for all.

The governor's complicated deals with Indian tribes would also seek to wipe out ancient tribal land claims against the state.