Sentence examples for sought to commit from inspiring English sources

He did not explain how the captain sought to commit suicide, and the captain's condition was unknown.

In many countries professional associations of lawyers have sought to commit the principles of ethical conduct to written form, but a written code is not essential.

There are no prizes for predicting the likely press reaction to a plea which sought to commit an equivalent sum from public funds to create an endowment to build serious collections of 20th and 21st century art in, say, six regional museums across the country".

Twice in Plato's dialogues (Symposium 173b, Theaetetus 142c 143a), fact-checking with Socrates took place as his friends sought to commit his conversations to writing before he was executed.

Doucet might have initially considered herself deviant, but she was beginning to realize that other women sought to commit the same sorts of social violations she did.

Chernow rebuts those historians who have argued that Hamilton was really seeking to commit suicide.

This motion seeks to commit the party to a package of measures to give the public a greater say in policy making.

Legislation written in the Tudjman era is insufficient and full of loopholes, which have already been exploited by those seeking to commit fraud.

Lawyers for the county promised not to seek to commit the boy to a state juvenile facility or to file additional criminal charges against him stemming from the killings.

In Arizona, officials say eviction cases have tripled in the last year, contract disputes are up 77percentt over the last two years, and there is a notable increase in cases seeking to commit people for mental health treatment because of stress-related conditions.

The National Extremism Tactical Co-ordination Unit does not regard all protesters as extremists - the unit is committed to ensuring that the vast majority of campaigners who protest peacefully and lawfully can continue to do so without their protest being hijacked by the small minority who seek to commit criminal acts to further their cause.