Sentence examples for sought to throw from inspiring English sources

When the subject came up in the question and answer session Putin sought to throw the accusation back.

Eight badminton players from China, South Korea and Indonesia were disqualified for failing to exhibit "fighting spirit," after they sought to throw matches in order to face easier rivals in later rounds.

It sought to throw the most elaborate and extravagant record-release party of the year, and like most events staged by arena-rock bands of the Aerosmith type, it was a grand but empty gesture.

As he notes, after the death of Herod, Jewish rebels sought to throw off the yoke of the Rome-supported monarchy, so the rise of a major Jewish independence fighter could take on messianic overtones.

The Sturm und Drang ("Storm and Stress") was a movement of literary innovation through which a group of young writers in the last decades of the 18th century sought to throw off the yoke of accepted standards of composition, but it remained confined to problems of prosody and taste and reluctant to confront political and social issues directly.

Fun is a word that has gone down well with a number of northern towns, cities and regeneration agencies in recent months as Bradford, Barnsley, Halifax, Stoke-on-Trent and Middlesbrough have sought to throw off the dour images they still unfairly conjure in the popular imagination.

Joel Isaac seeks to throw these contemporary disputes into much-needed historical relief.

Both candidates insist that they would never seek to throw America's weight around.

Now he says the US military is seeking to "throw the blame on somebody else".

He said that a competing theory was that domestic opposition forces were seeking to throw Ms. Hasina off balance.

Monsanto, meanwhile, filed papers last week seeking to throw out the verdict – and prevent Johnson's family from receiving the money.