Sentence examples for sought a spot from inspiring English sources

They sought a spot where they could devote themselves completely to the love of God, without a fixed rule and without an imposed form of life.

Twenty sought a spot on the August primary ballot, which will whittle the field down to the top two vote earners.

So it was with several young men and women from Wisconsin, who sought a spot in Manhattan to share their love of the Green Bay Packers and found one another, and marriage, too.

A French doubter who authored a book arguing that solar activity — not greenhouse gases — was driving global warming, de Larminat sought a spot at a climate summit in April sponsored by the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

But if Clemson, long a bottom feeder in the Atlantic Coast Conference, sought a spot in the Top 25 for the first time since 1999, it was not going to come against the Blue Devils.

A lawyer, she won election to the House in 1998 and says she immediately sought a spot on the science committee so she could advocate for Argonne.

GlobalGiving holds contests for organizations seeking a spot on its Web site.

That arrangement was attacked last month by Howard Sirota, a New York lawyer seeking a spot on the legal team.

APPLICATIONS FOR ADMISSION set a record for the fifth straight year, with 21,869 students seeking a spot in the Class of 2013.

But Joseph J. DioGuardi, a former New York representative, failed to make the threshold, and said he would seek a spot on the ballot through a petition drive.

The OPTN's leaders voted on June 10th to let children seeking a spot in the adult queue appeal to an internal review board.