Sentence examples for sought to indicate from inspiring English sources

Following the vogue of 19th-century research, he wanted to comprehend totemism in a broad perspective, and in his study The Worship of Animals and Plants (1869, 1870) he did not seek to explain the specific origin of the totemistic phenomenon but sought to indicate that all of the human race had in ancient times gone through a totemistic stage.

Even in such a benevolent climate Clegg twice sought to indicate good-humoured distance, once by pretending to walk away from the podium and on another by suggesting that if they travelled in the same car to campaign in a by-election they should get out of opposite doors.

To this it is sometimes replied that the later philosophical tradition simply got the Buddha wrong, at least in part because the Buddha sought to indicate something that cannot be grasped through the exercise of philosophical rationality.

Basically, as German consumers have moved toward demanding dry wines almost exclusively, major German producers have sought ways to indicate their top wines coming from the most historically significant hillside locations, long the sources of Germany's best Rieslings.

Last month, Leslie Moonves, the president of CBS, mindful of NBC's losses and what the I.O.C. is seeking, seemed to indicate he would bow out of the auction if he could not get a bargain.

SNPs with low minor allele frequency (MAF) are likely to be identical by state purely by chance, so we sought to determine whether CCH might indicate apparent regions of IBD inheritance because of low marker diversity.

As the title indicates, it sought to distance itself from New Age politics.

Indeed, several comments from pulmonologists indicated they sought to put the question of responsibility in perspective by discussing the role of the tobacco industry, tobacco addiction and genetic vulnerability.

We first sought to determine if these results indicated that T follicular regulatory (Tfr) cells, a recently described immune-suppressive Tfh population (Chung et al., 2011; Linterman et al., 2011; Wollenberg et al., 2011), formed during acute LCMV infection.

Other documents indicate the company sought to teach employees to quell doctors' concerns, as various studies emerged, that Vioxx could increase the risk of strokes and heart attacks.

13 March 2013: Intelligence indicated Adebowale had sought to disseminate extremist material.