Sentence examples for seen as serving from inspiring English sources

The country's current President, Asif Zardari, is seen as serving merely at the military's pleasure.

"Now they don't want to be seen as serving the new regime".

Some of Italy's decisions on Europe were seen as serving Mr. Berlusconi's personal interests.

"These jihadist groups may be seen as serving your interests now," Armitage recalled saying to him, "but eventually they will turn against you".

Because public relations does not always seek to impact sales or profitability directly, it is sometimes seen as serving a function that is separate from marketing.

The case against them is seen as serving two functions: a warning to other dissidents, and an appeal to Putin's conservative base.

The public, too, is against another military campaign, which it sees as serving an American agenda, not Pakistani interests.

It is "a weapon against cross-border tax evasion," says Mr Monti, and one that he sees as serving a still greater good.

These groups vehemently oppose any government policies they see as serving American imperialist interests and have already launched a number of attacks, including one at the United States Embassy in Ankara on Feb. 2. Turkish media reports that these Marxist groups, in cooperation with elements of Mr. Assad's regime, may have been behind the May 11 attack that killed 51 people in Reyhanli.

The same respondent commented that cancer sufferers advocated in favour of surveillance for the purposes of research on the disease, since "they were willing to trade privacy and consent for a good which was surveillance that they saw as serving their interests".

Because a prisoner's time on the project was counted as part of his sentence, and because serving on the project could shorten one's sentence, the project must be seen as simultaneously serving the functions of research and punishment.