Sentence examples for was first sought from inspiring English sources

A name change was first sought in 1989, when some here urged renaming the place Woodland Park.

Procedural reasons may persuade the court to pass on Hopwood, much as it did when review was first sought in 1996.

The judicial review was first sought by a coalition of human rights groups led by the Wahid Institute, an organization founded by Indonesia's late president, Abdurrahman Wahid, that campaigns for religious pluralism.

The first was the notion, epitomized in the Osirian myth, of a dying and rising saviour god who could confer on devotees the gift of immortality; this afterlife was first sought by the pharaohs and then by millions of ordinary people.

When the island of Heligoland was ceded to Germany in 1890, Parliamentary approval was first sought.

Permission to work in the villages was first sought from the village chiefs and householders.

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The documents were first sought by Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, and Representative John D. Dingell, Democrat of Michigan.

The documents were first sought last April by Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, and Representative John D. Dingell, Democrat of Michigan.

The regular solution of the problem is first sought using a finite volume scheme and stability analysis is performed on this time-dependent solution.

Socrates suggests that the task would be easier if justice were first sought in a polis, where it is "writ large".