Sentence examples for sought to open from inspiring English sources

The Clinton plan also sought to open up a wide menu of options at different prices, including fee-for-service plans.

The G2 exercise sought to open up debate.

Pakistan has in the past arrested insurgent leaders who sought to open talks without its blessing.

Charged along with him in the conspiracy were four businessmen who prosecutors said had sought to open the adult centers.

Another wave followed from 1949 to 1950, mostly made up of either senior Kuomintang officials or of those who sought to open their own businesses.

It also sought to open the health service to more competition, with health care providers — public and private — vying for business.

While each covered familiar ground from New Hampshire to Ohio, Mr. Romney sought to open a new front with a rally in Pennsylvania.

Guided by laissez-faire doctrine and its hostility to privileged corporations, the Assembly sought to open up economic life to unimpeded individual initiative and competition.

From 1630 Pym was treasurer of the Providence Island Company, which sought to open trade with Spanish America peacefully, if possible, by force, if not.

In fact, when Canada sought to open North America's first safe-injection facility in 2003, a US consulate representative told the founders of the program that America forbade it, according to Travis Lupick's important new history, Fighting For Space.

Father Flannery explains that the division in Rome stems from a dispute over the Second Vatican Council, which sought to open-up Catholicism, giving the laity a louder voice regarding Church matters.