Sentence examples for sought at first from inspiring English sources

For a start, thousands of lives have been saved, in Benghazi and elsewhere across the country, since the colonel has been prevented from unleashing his vengeance on those who sought, at first peacefully, to express their opposition to him.

Centred at Oxford, the movement sought at first to respond to government efforts to appropriate church funds and property but gradually expanded its activities to a more general theological and pastoral agenda.

The president of the student council, Avinoam Baral, who had nominated Ms. Beyda, appeared stunned at the turn the questioning took at the session and sought at first to rule Ms. Roth's question out of order.

follows an earlier effort by Craig Watkins, the district attorney in Dallas, who, in 2006, formed a conviction-integrity unit that sought, at first, to review potentially tainted convictions that could be tested with DNA evidence that wasn't available at the time of the original trials.

When I mention events from it, she seeks at first to distance herself from them, referring to the essay's "narrator" with a soft, disciplinary stress.

Lincoln was firmly against extending slavery in the territories, but did not seek at first to eradicate the "peculiar institution" altogether.In his first inaugural address, Lincoln quoted from an earlier speech, in which he had said: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists.

What people seek at first point of contact is reassurance -- that they are not alone, that whoever is talking is non-judgmental, has been through addiction too, and come out the other side OK.

He is not eligible for free agency until after next season and could give the Yankees the long-term answer they are seeking at third.

A prosecutor, Maria Leone, said the prosecution would accept a 10-year sentence instead of the 15-year sentence sought at the first trial "in consideration of the defendant's advanced age".

He sought solace at first in Brittany among the peasants of the French countryside and then in the far away islands of the South Pacific, whose promise of paradise on earth lured many others, among them, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Robert Louis Stevenson.

For minor illnesses, but also for very urgent ailments that cannot be delayed, care is first sought at the local level.