Sentence examples for that once sought from inspiring English sources

Rich-world economies are not exactly fizzing, and firms from emerging markets that once sought respectability by listing in the West now have options at home.

The Blackstone Group, the private equity giant, agreed on Friday to buy Dynegy, the Houston power company that once sought to buy Enron, for $4.7 billion including debt, in the largest leveraged buyout so far this year.

In a way, the speech was a striking legacy of the uprising: the reimagining of power that once sought prestige though its very distance from those without it.

As part of this shift, many unions that once sought to keep immigrants out of their fields now are eager to organize those workers.

In the article below, we again confused two congressional bodies that once sought evidence of communist infiltration in American public life when we referred to "Senator McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee".

But even if it prevails, the uprising has demonstrated the weakness of a dictatorial government that once sought to draw legitimacy from a notion of Arab nationalism, a sprawling public sector that created the semblance of a middle class and services that delivered electricity to the smallest towns.

It continued to stand largely behind its customary answer that much of the evidence amassed by the agency that Tehran once sought to develop nuclear weapons technology was forged.

Towns that had once sought to become staging posts up and down the river now competed to become crossing points.

Ramírez argues that the quality of Spanish democracy is now eroding, under fire from the same concentration of powers that were once sought to protect it.

"Specifically, I highlighted the incoherence of a policy that at once seeks to root out corruption and establish the rule of law, while at the same time funneling secret cash payments to the president".

'I don't want to write a sentence that any guy could have written,' he once said - and only a writer as anxiously self-evaluating as Amis would have called his new book The War Against Cliché, a title that, at once, seeks to elevate (himself) and to challenge (others).