Sentence examples for sought to check from inspiring English sources

Thatcher's government sought to check departmental bureaucracies through the use of special advisers (SAs).

"Julian, I told you that first we have to get a present for Dad!" she pleaded as Julian relentlessly sought to check out the picture books for small children.

Franny Reese, as she was known, was a spark plug in a movement that began 40 years ago with a handful of local gentry who sought to check the unbridled development of the Hudson River Valley.

The same logic of urban renewal played out elsewhere in the city: Haussmann sought to check nearly a millennium of largely unplanned growth with the imposition of rectilinear street patterns and broad boulevards lined by apartment buildings with uniform facades and uniform height.

We sought to check that our estimates of the incidence of overeducation and overskilling were not affected by selection bias, i.e. the possibility that the observable characteristics of migrants were not distributed in a non-random fashion with respect to mismatch.

Although they were unable to prevent American occupation of New Orleans, they sought to check American activity west of the Mississippi River.

This kind of thinking, presumably, is what the Dutch law court is seeking to check.

Typical customers are sponsors seeking to check up on what exposure a celebrity is earning them.

The story is simple and wildly unpredictable: the unnamed boy seeks to check out some books at his local library.

I would add a few considerations.First, in seeking to check the malign influence of corporations, it may be a mistake to focus too much on elections.

Yet while we seek to check the credibility of stars beneath the costume, when it comes to ourselves we do the opposite.