Sentence examples for sought to extract from inspiring English sources

Democrats have also sought to extract more information from the White House about those operations.

(Remember the Grand Academy of Lagado, from Gulliver's Travels, in which learned men sought to extract sunbeams from cucumbers).

In question time, the opposition sought to extract concrete details from the government about its plans to support Qantas.

While Dmowski and his supporters sought to extract concessions from the tsarist regime, Piłsudski promoted revolutionary nationalistic tactics.

He has attacked Dr. Dean as not standing with the Democrats in the great budget battle of 1995-96, when Republicans sought to extract $270 billion from Medicare.

The smoke had cleared by 1940, and Mr. Jackson, on the threshold of his own distinguished Supreme Court career, sought to extract some deeper meaning from the events.

Her administration threatened earlier this year to prosecute British firms seeking to extract oil in the disputed area.

Mr. Osborne said the government would seek to extract "the maximum sustainable taxes" from financial institutions.

It is not clear what concessions Mr. Malone may seek to extract as a condition of supporting a deal.

More common, and less successful on the whole, is a comic haplessness that seeks to extract sympathy along with laughter.

Similarly, botnets are used to transmit phishing scams, which seek to extract personal data from unwary individuals.