People have always sought to maximize their 24 hours.
Negotiations were protracted and adversarial as every unit sought to maximize its own success.
Alfred Leslie sought to maximize psychological impact in enormous portraits of nude and nearly nude women.
But the board sought to maximize value for shareholders, rather than letting pure nationalism govern its decisions.
In this way, companies sought to maximize employee motivation by paying each worker for the output he or she produced.
Former partners said that while Goldman had always sought to maximize profits, the bank used to take a longer-term view.
Instead, they have sought to maximize press attention and Internet chatter in an attempt to see what works and what doesn't.
China and other trading partners hit with the tariffs, including the European Union, have sought to maximize the political impact of their reprisals.
The Romney campaign sought to maximize his support in reliably red southwest Virginia by attacking Mr. Obama's environmental policies, which are unpopular in the coal counties of Appalachia.
Instead of pursuing the absolute quantity thresholded by current display technology, we have sought to maximize the effective diversity by improving functional clone percentage.
Service employee officials said the agreement sought to maximize the union's chances of winning a fair election in an era when unions are struggling to reverse decades of decline.
