Sentence examples for sought to bind from inspiring English sources

Rhetorically, his speech sought to bind those wounds by binding us together.

But he also sought to bind his opponent into the whole murky business by association.

He sought to bind the Second International to declaring a general strike in all countries in the event of war.

In the two songs called "Hope," the music sought to bind fragments of association, litanies of the different kinds of hope and the different sustenances they offer.

Douglass blamed slavery: "We have sought to bind the chains of slavery on the limbs of the black man, without thinking that at last we should find the other end of that hateful chain about our own necks".

The power of the landowners increased at the expense of their tenants and of smaller farmers, both of whom the imperial government sought to bind to the soil in a state of quasi-serfdom.

But just as the European Parliament does not seek to bind the commission, so also parliament must not seek to bind the hands of ministers.

Accordingly, the new league is seeking to bind with the roots of the US grassroots game.

It also seeks to bind Palestinian leaders to recognize the rights and privileges of the church.

In between these interventions, while the United States is engaged elsewhere, whole generations of Central Americans seek to bind their wounds.

China is seeking to bind itself more closely to Russia as Mr. Putin is planting the country more firmly as a European power.