Sentence examples for sought to wind from inspiring English sources

Before Trump appeared on stage, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, his most outspoken and loyal adviser, sought to wind up the crowd with a diatribe against Clinton.

Thirteen other men appeared in court on pimping charges, many with no connection to Strauss-Kahn, but the high-profile coverage of the case centred on the former IMF chief and how he sought to wind down from managing the fallout from the global financial crisis by having sex with strangers brought to him at orgies by businessmen keen to curry favour.

In a brief interview there in April last year, a handcuffed Temour, wearing a scruffy prison beard, said through a wire grate in the visiting room: "Is this how America treats its friends?" As the United States sought to wind down the war, it gradually handed control of Bagram prison and its thousands of detainees to the Afghan government.

The campaign of the former governor has refunded nearly $1.5 million to its donors as Mr. Spitzer seeks to wind down his political operation.

It will also put him in charge of a beleaguered unit that could still face billions of dollars in additional losses as it seeks to wind down the ill-fated trades that created the initial hole.

Outside the party room, South Australian Liberal senator Cory Bernardi was seen walking the corridors collecting signatures for his private members bill which seeks to wind back some of the protections under the section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.

He made no mention, though, of the many examples of investigative reporting — about the torture and abuse of prisoners, about official lies issued by the Bush Administration on the road to war in Iraq, about targeting errors in drone attacks — that have helped to discredit the policies he now seeks to wind down.

In July, lawyers for Deiulemar Shipping, a major Italian dry freight group, said they were seeking to wind up the company to pre-empt formal bankruptcy after prosecutors seized more than half of its fleet.

"Why seek to wound him now?" wailed Jean-Pierre Raffarin, another of Mr Chirac's former prime ministers.

It seeks to wound, to wreck, to do lasting mischief to the reputation of either a work or else a whole career.

That made her one of a growing number of victims of "revenge porn": the non-consensual publication online of explicit images, often by an ex-boyfriend seeking to wound.