Sentence examples for were seeking not from inspiring English sources

The groups involved were seeking not to pay taxes on large amounts of income by claiming that they promote social welfare.

I felt as if he were seeking not to differentiate himself from others but to locate himself at the core of a consensus.

Those who employed it so unprecedentedly on 9/11 were seeking not just the large-scale killing of Americans but to achieve something by means of the large-scale killing of Americans.

Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of Turkey's pro-secular main opposition, the Republican People's Party (CHP), believes prosecutors were seeking not justice, but revenge.Defence lawyers have long claimed that much of the evidence against their clients was either fabricated or doctored.

Sal Marinello, a lawyer in Nassau County who represented three of the accusers in a 2004 hearing where they were seeking not to testify in court, said he would be surprised if Ms. Rice's report recommended overturning the case.

Auden and Kallman wrote that, with the Intermezzo, they were seeking not only to provide some respite from the "sober air of religious disaster," but also to suggest that the visions of the truth-seeking King Pentheus pave the way for his falling under Dionysus's spell.

Ramsay is seeking not contrasts but harmonies.

Unlike Grant, he was seeking not relief but redress.

The new stars are seeking not just fame, but fortune.

He was seeking not her vote "but her body," Mr. Siano said in his opening statement.

But, just as often, our gaze is seeking not only food but also company.