Sentence examples for term seek from inspiring English sources

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While obviously one's capacity to suffer under any circumstances is subjective, when we hear that the very well-to-do, under any reasonable definition of the term, seek pity, it comes across as callous and clueless.

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Her previous job at the White House, during Obama's first term, sought to bring human-rights thinking to foreign policy.

Last year's verdict was already unusual because the sentence was much tougher than the suspended prison term sought by prosecutors.

The term seeks to differentiate serious theater (think Shakespeare, think O'Neill) from vaudeville or burlesque; "Choreographer Michael Kidd distinguished himself in legit before working in pictures".

Judge Thokozile Masipa has been criticised by women's and other rights groups for accepting the defence argument that a lesser sentence than the 15-year minimum term sought by prosecutors was appropriate for the 2013 murder of Reeva Steenkamp.

Still, Ms. Davin is looking at the long term, seeking ways to offer more incentives at a time when hospital stays are shorter and patients are recuperating at home.

For many years, people have questioned the conventional distinction between the humanitarian system that responds to emergencies caused by wars and natural disasters, and the development community that, in the longer term, seeks to tackle poverty.

Judge Thokozile Masipa, who sentenced Pistorius earlier this month, has been criticised by women's and other rights groups for accepting the defence argument that a lesser sentence than the 15-year minimum term sought by prosecutor Gerrie Nel was appropriate.

Obama's assumption that you can rise above ascribing villainous motives has caused him to waste huge chunks of his first term seeking bipartisanship from Republicans who were playing him for a dupe.

Walker, who has spent the beginning of his first term seeking union reform and cutting funding for education and social services, claimed only the best intentions.

But that doesn't change the fact that the bar has always been set higher for African-Americans (apologies Mr. Cain. I know you hate that term) seeking to break barriers, with less room for errors.

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