Sentence examples for seeks to feed from inspiring English sources

Cnooc, as the Chinese oil giant is known, has been an active deal maker as it seeks to feed China's ravenous demand for energy.

It is not lost on American and European manufacturers that cotton already competes with grain for what arable land exists in some regions, a tension that will only grow as the world seeks to feed its growing population in coming decades.

In future, the pressures are likely to intensify as China seeks to feed 21% of the world's population with only 9% of its cultivated land.

Just what this agricultural infrastructure entails (the fine print mentions fertilizer and seed, grain storage vessels and plant variety research) could be the key to whether the plan actually seeks to feed many of the billion people on earth who are now hungry, or whether the U.S. and other nations will, instead, further fuel the food crisis.

100 Great Bridgewater Street For the duration of MIF, the Pavilion cafe-bar will seek to feed mind, body and soul.

Brown's case has been dismissed by lawyers for the royal family in a previous court hearing as that of "a fantasist seeking to feed his private obsession".

Perhaps the clearest indicator of this shift away from lunch is the proliferation of breakfast and brunch menus, with more restaurants seeking to feed punters from dawn to, well, dawn.

The researchers fear that these increasing incursions into the virgin forest will draw in more hunters seeking to feed the enormous bushmeat trade in the Congo basin, that targets chimps and other animals.

As Barbara Brown Taylor once put it we have a "famine of excess" – we have an excess of words, and yet because they contain no nutrients, no matter how much we seek to feed on them we are not satisfied.

Both regions experienced real estate booms ahead of their financial crises, consumers took on large levels of debt and domestic banks built up unsustainable loan-to-deposit ratios as they sought to feed local demand for borrowing.

"Global warming will itself almost certainly directly cause mass killing, but it will likely indirectly cause it" as major states like China and the United States seek to feed their citizens, possibly touching off shortages elsewhere, in places that would then be at risk.