Sentence examples for sought permits from inspiring English sources

The Tomasis soon sought permits to do work and began to fix up the house.

In contrast, reactors built in the 1960s, '70s and '80s obtained construction permits and then, as their plants approached completion, went back and sought permits to run them.

Another instance of political donations to Mr. Perry seeming to dovetail with his policy decisions came in 2005, when the TXU Corporation, a utility based in Dallas, sought permits to build coal-fired power plants.

Three years after the Porrinos moved into their new home, Lipton, a Unilever brand, sought permits to build a large addition that would bring the building within range of the Porrinos' front window.

While the Lewises had obtained local building permits, the park agency said that they failed to obtain permits from it, even though it had not sought permits for a house in three decades.

Elgin's workmen originally sought permits to draw, measure and make casts from the masterpieces of the Parthenon: it was a worthy aim, given it was, at the time, a ruin.

Alon USA, an Israeli oil company that has pledged $250,000 to the Jindal Foundation, last year sought permit changes that would allow it to discharge more pollutants at its Krotz Springs refinery.

The company is seeking permits to allow grading and to build on a wetlands area.

Still, Tenaska is continuing to seek permits to inject carbon dioxide underground at the site, Mr. Ford said.

The next step is for Garden State Offshore Energy to seek permits from state and federal agencies to build offshore.

When I arrived at the Trenton D.M.V., I was told to join Line 16 for foreign nationals seeking permits.