How To Use Seek In A Sentence

But I do know there is a greater prospect he will seek a bit of equity in the distribution of investment and development of infrastructure than the present triumvirate.
The BBC never tires of telling us how passionately it seeks the interest and participation of the public in its political output, particularly the young.
It is pertinent to destigmatize depression, so those suffering from it could seek medical help.
An asylum seeker with insulin dependent diabetes has recently had her claim for asylum rejected.
This seems like an unnecessary attention-seeking tactic, making sure we notice a particularly sleazy line.

The Blonde had the doracha seekh, a combination of chicken and crab flakes chargrilled in the tandoor oven and served with a piquant mango and avocado chutney, at £7.50.
When the matador realises the bull is weak and unable to charge much longer he will reach for his killing sword and seek to manoeuvre it directly in front of him with its head down, so that he can administer the death stroke.
Where the company is seeking general authority to purchase shares in the market they must state their intentions regarding the authority granted.
I'd like see them cope on jobseeker's allowance. The Sun
Sensation - seeking newspapers tried to cash in on her misery.
Aerogels had been largely forgotten when, in the late 1970s, the French government approached Stanislaus Teichner at Universite Claud Bernard, Lyon seeking a method for storing oxygen and rocket fuels in porous materials. A Real Spinoff that NASA Has Seemingly Forgotten About - NASA Watch
The commission will seek to arbitrate a resolution before handing down a decision in late summer.
However, some patients seek help late in the season, when their symptoms have progressed from a runny nose to sticky yellow mucus with red, hot itchy and swollen eyes.
Instead, segregation has continued despite the fact that some of Oldham's most monocultural schools have been closed and merged since the riots, while others have been moved to different areas to seek a mixed intake. Oldham schools still polarised 10 years on from race riots
The next posts are often about useless slimming products and they might be tempted to buy them without seeking proper advice. The Sun
Soldiers assigned to staff positions must be computer-literate and seek training for the operating systems and programs they will use.
Some came to seek the new power, some to chuckle, others to satisfy their curiosity.
Whoever seeks to export such a system has to be aware of the unforeseeable consequences this model can have in an unknown environment.
Examinations do not motivate a student to seek more knowledge.
This is certainly an interesting theory for all those who seek a practical application of astrology.
Exhaust fumes from the Apache engines are also cooled as they emerge to make it difficult for heat-seeking missiles to seek and destroy the aircraft.
Ms. Thompson, whose city is wrangling with $288 million in incinerator debt, said seeking state help is only one step toward resolving Harrisburg's problems, and that "there are many difficult steps to come. Harrisburg Asks State for Relief
Suddenly, seeking high office, Liddy Dole was described as over-ambitious, chilly and nasty under the "syrupy" Southern accent. Caryl Rivers: Bad, Mad Michelle
There is a difference, too, between appeasing men of violence and seeking to limit their appeal, just as the leaders of global terror must be separated from those who could become their followers.
At least two of the job seekers were wounded by gunfire.
Theologian Keri Harvey writes, “Legalism is to seek to achieve forgiveness from God and ac ceptance by God through my obedience to God.” God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
Argo to seek the Golden Fleece; their moniker combines the name of their ship and the Greek word "nautēs," meaning "sailor. Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
They claim for the bath plug, and in the act of seeking recompense for such a small and essential item they show their incredible greed. Times, Sunday Times
Seeking to be so is a fool 's errand. Times, Sunday Times
Elroy is surprised to learn that the gardens are not fables but space stations that orbit the Earth and are run by a much-feared Lord, who seeks out Wiggles for taking the forbidden fruit - an apple, natch. 4/06 UPDATE: My New Year's Resolution
Should one seek the causes, eliminate them and so prevent the disease?
But the splinter of the self that consistently emerges as the common enemy of the true and the good alike is the will, always seeking to overleap its own bounds.
In a way, you could say this thrill seeker is also following his father's adventuresome footsteps - his dad once maneuvered a motor boat from Venezuela to Miami.
He wrote a letter seeking to change his plea three days later, but the judge died before acting on it.
The Constitution requires the president to seek the prior approval of Congress for military action.
Encourage the subordinate gently to seek solutions and propose action.
Nothing seek, nothing find.
Black Mountain had been seeking a new campus almost from its founding.
Both seek to address poverty in their countries, but within the framework of a free-market economy. Times, Sunday Times
Faced with the new electric fields introduced by the sound wave, the electrons and holes in the quantum well seek out their respective points of minimum energy in the presence of the fields.
You will need to seek professional advice about your claim for compensation.
It is the ravening lion roaming the earth seeking whom it may devour.
In addition, the convention seeks to impose an afﬁrmative duty on states to prohibit, and perhaps prevent, mercenarism. David Isenberg: Outsourcing War and Peace: Part 2
So how are churches today seeking to nurture the next generation of Christian social activists?
Veterans must be treated fairly and expeditiously as they seek compensation for disability or illness.
Compliance strategy seeks to prevent a harm rather than punish an evil.
States seek to become stronger through alliance.
But it was the bowler's general bearing and neatness which charmed the young writer almost as much as the name he'd been seeking for his newly conceived character of a gentleman's gentleman. From Jeeves to Herriot: all creatures great and sporty | Frank Keating
It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.
The state of Rheinland-Pfalz seeks to turn the airport into a cargo hub. High Bridge to traverse Mosel and vineyards | Dr Vino's wine blog
The city now seeks to amend the claim to plead fraudulent misrepresentation and deceit and to seek punitive damages.
Everything was explained in it -- everything made clear; and gradually she realised the natural, strong and pardonable craving of the rich, unloved man, to seek out for himself some means whereby he might leave all his world's gainings to one whose kindness to him had not been measured by any knowledge of his wealth, but which had been bestowed upon him solely for simple love's sake. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches
Those who foolishly seek power by riding on the back of the tiger and up inside.
It would seek to develop friendly relations amongst all nations
The streets were swept with electronic gadgets seeking hidden bombs.
Animals surely greet the best parts of their lives with enjoyment: and surely actively seek out pleasurable things. Times, Sunday Times
Objective To study the expression of substance P (SP) in human sudden erethistic death, and to seek objective morphological supports to diagnose sudden erethistic death for forensic medicine.
Overall, the ‘strong emotions’ seek out what cannot be put into propositions, or even words: everything that is mysterious and unpresentable.
The separatists and the integrationists both seek to make a difference and, in the process, make a buck.
How sad are the D.C.s of the world who seek only to rend and never to mesh with the warp and woof of a community.
The rest is torment and anguish, from which she seeks to escape by turning inwards. The Times Literary Supplement
Two special awards recognise the challenges faced by large firms seeking to be green. Times, Sunday Times
Those who held bookland were territorial lords with local interests, and were thus far more likely to seek terms with the Danish invaders, if they could save all or part of their inheritance.
Rather than supporting businesses that seek to reclaim brownfield land, however, many cities have in place archaic laws full of clauses and subclauses that add further time and cost to a project.
But then there is the other side: He was a creep, who had "problems" with the unwhite people and with women, and maybe even didn't so much seek out real girlfriends. Wood War! Who Wins Today's Grabby Tabloid Battle For Your Eyeballs?
Defendants file massive summary judgment motions, seeking to dismiss every claim on various grounds.
The taxman is seeking the power to plunder the bank accounts of both individuals and companies to recover unpaid taxes. Times, Sunday Times
And at last he had returned, not in triumph as a master, but as a pilgrim on sabbatical seeking the holy city of his youth. THE BROKEN GOD
A Wistron NeWeb spokesman said the company was seeking vendors to badge the handsets.
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
I don't seek vengeance against those who tried to kill me. Times, Sunday Times
One commonly observed facet of the gay scene is that people often seek to define their very identities by the fact that they go to certain venues.
Learners at the advanced stage use their own creativity and seek delicate discriminations of meaning, stylistic niceties, subtleties of culture and discourse, and greater acquaintance with the language.
His relationship with his patroness was a comfortable and easy one, and he did not hesitate to ask directly, "Will he indeed find the gentlewoman he's seeking at Elford? The Confession of Brother Haluin
You should seek advice from your lawyer on this matter.
When a well-intentioned program yields unwelcome results, for example, a truth-aversive organization will seek to minimize or disguise these consquences.
The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us. Paulo Coelho
If the aggrieved party is unable to establish the value of a loss of bargain he may seek compensation in respect of his reliance losses.
There was abundant advice offered by experts Wednesday on what to do when it rains by the bucketful, with all agreeing that seeking a dry place was the best course of action. D.C. region braces for deluge
The demonstrations in the province northeast of Baghdad were sparked at the beginning of the week, when local authorities voted to seek semiautonomy status from the central Baghdad government. Disruptions Mount in Iraq
Pleasure seeking often enslaves people in a vicious cycle of addiction…
It is true that some former Levellers retreated into religious passivity, internalising their revolutionary ideology and seeking a godly republic within.
We are collating evidence for the Office of Fair Trading which is seeking to take the matter up with the Canadian authorities.
In an attempt to divert the resulting social unrest, Stalinist bureaucrats and communalist demagogues fomented nationalist sentiments while seeking patrons among the major powers.
For a small fee, punters can seek out my counsel on these matters and I will gladly offer my expertise!
The complaints also seek to remove references to Lipitor in advertising materials and to eliminate computer links that misdirect patients to an illegal, unapproved product.
John Bull," and another from "An Eton Boy," animadverting upon Mr. Seekamp's grammar. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert
To facilitate writing a question that will allow the student to seek out best evidence, use the teaching mnemonic PICO.
And if you get a history of going in and mentioning things that have not really been a problem very long, if you're not very lucky, you get a doctor who writes down "hypochondriac" or "drug-seeking," and then when it's still a problem later, you've got that to deal with. Mrissa: Hollywood broken leg theory
The main genera of relativism can be distinguished according to the object they seek to relativize.
Could lupilin be responsible for the hordes of passionate hopheads that seek ever-higher levels of hops in their IPAs?
Adults adopt an essentially Kantian moral perspective that seeks to transcend and judge all conventional moralities.
Three years of huge losses forced the bank to seek a government bailout.
But the report dismisses claims that Leeds is swamped by asylum seekers who have access to a wide range of benefits.
A veteran fund-raiser finds it tough going as she seeks her fourth round of financing
Recruiting and retaining skilled scientists and engineers is no easy task; furthermore, such professionals often seek freedom to interact with their peers in other firms.
In addition to economic migration there are those fleeing war and persecution or seeking asylum. Times, Sunday Times
Chastised, Elder Brother held his tongue, turning to look at Jinju as if to seek her support.
It is uncharacteristically diligent of a minister to seek precisely to understand what money spent will accomplish.
The government will not seek to disrupt the legitimate business activities of the defendant.
It just seems as if Mother Earth had become young again, and was tossing her babies up to the summer sky, and the wind played hide-and-seek, or peep-bo, or some other ridiculous game, with them, and made the summer babies as glad and as mischievous as himself. My War Experiences in Two Continents
Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention?
What's causing international winemakers to seek alternate closures for their wines?
Now Uptown Partners is seeking between $475 to $630 a square foot, or about a 15% markdown. New Life for Harlem Condo Project
She is seeking nomination as a candidate in the elections.
Even they though are underplayed these days, as hockey seeks to woo that elusive grail - the family audience.
The traveller may thereafter accept the terms of the offer, or reject them and seek accommodation elsewhere.
After seeking advice from Norman, his playing partner, Garcia took a drop, moving away from the sign.
Old Chicago execs decided not to push wine by the bottle, though bottles are available if customers seek it out.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
That was by no means forthcoming and on 23 August 1990 the respondent issued an originating summons in the High Court seeking possession.
Now they find themselves thrust yet again into an intense triangular relationship: Jimmy the avenger, Sean the truth-seeker and Dave the unfortunate.
Instead of seeking melody, listeners grew satisfied with crump-crump rhythm.
(Turns out the FTC is currently seeking public comment on the negative option rule.) Archive 2009-07-01
Ex-forces personnel could be the manna from heaven employers are seeking.
Seeking a perfect opportunity to twist those words around into a faux color-blind ideology, they have used them to constantly suggest that those who raise a cry against injustice and institutional racism reject the legacy of MLK. Think Progress » GOP Claims It’s Upholding The Legacy Of MLK, A Fighter Against The ‘Injustice’ In Health Care Inequality
The book thus seeks to explain the application of these colorants in terms of their organic chemistry.
Now had also launched a campaign which was seeking to lobby senators both in their home states and in the Senate itself.
In terms of biological evolution, complex adaptive systems seek patterns and learn from their interactions with the environment.
The latter seeks to provide similar pay and conditions to agency workers as employees. Times, Sunday Times
It is wise to seek help and counsel as soon as possible.
As an unrepentant internet devotee, I spend a lot of time rootling around cyberspace seeking out the edifying and unusual.
We also expect sale and leaseback to prove popular as companies seek to realise maximum value from their assets.
in periods of high merger activity there is a bandwagon effect with more and more firms seeking to engage in takeover activity
Ramsden is a good-tempered truth-seeker, not a malevolent muckraker.
The Ohio and New York pension plans are seeking class- action, or group, status for the suit, covering investors in American depositary receipts from Jan. 16, 2007, to May 28, 2010. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
We hug the coastline in a vain attempt to seek shelter from the wind. Times, Sunday Times
We all seek to interpret what we hear and what we read.
In our frantic effort to preserve the last vestiges of slavery and mediaevalism we not only set our faces against such improvements, but we seek to use education and the power of the state to train the servants who do not naturally appear. DARKWATER
At first instance the plaintiff did not seek to make out a case of an attempt to pervert the course of justice or of contempt of court.
So I suppose it's no surprise that a May 7 press release from the the World Congress of Families (WCF), an extremely conservative group that "seeks to restore the natural family as the fundamental social unit and the 'seedbed' of civil society," accused CCF of wanting to '' de-institutionalize marriage "and of celebrating the fact" that an increasing number of women are choosing not to marry and have children. Stephanie Coontz: Unconventional Wisdom on Families
Job seekers' experience and their familiarity with the Chinese market were the focal issues for headhunters.
The mission of the center is to seek the betterment of society through sports, according to the organization.
Every step which led him to the summit of power was prefaced by what he called seeking the Lord; that is, attending sermons and prayers, by which the suborned performers of those profane and solemn farces prepared their congregations to desire what their employers had previously determined to do; thus giving an air of divine inspiration to the projects of fraud, murder, and ambition. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel
He is seeking the help of philanthropists, who can sponsor his son, Hargobind.
Charging based on traffic to different (uncontrolled by the customer!) endpoints is just an invitation to both rent seeking and monetary denial of service attacks by third parties. The Volokh Conspiracy » The FCC and the Internet:
Seek advice from a personal injury lawyer at once. The Sun
Now a time has come when the country, in order to seek the final riddance from terrorism, will have to throw aside its mutual differences and hostilities and rise as a single united force.
He also expressed optimism that an acceptable constitutional arrangement could be agreed which would obviate the need for Quebec to seek independence.
We support those who maintain peace and oppose those who make war and who seek hegemony.
Agrippa, and the rest of his weeping friends earnestly besought him, osculantes obsecrarent ne id quod natura cogeret, ipse acceleraret, not to offer violence to himself, with a settled resolution he desired again they would approve of his good intent, and not seek to dehort him from it: and so constantly died, precesque eorum taciturna sua obstinatione depressit. Anatomy of Melancholy
Seek ye then, fair daughters, the possession of that inward grace, whose essence shall permeate and vitalize the affections, adorn the countenance, make mellifluous the voice, and impart a hallowed beauty even to your motions. Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
Instead of personal gain-seeking being viewed as the mainspring of progress, it was perceived to sow the seeds for economic polarization, and hence social discord and decay.
Thousands of sunseekers flocked to Britain's south coast on Sunday to enjoy the last remnants of summer.
As a complete man, constant, generous, full of honest courage, as a hardy follower of Thought wherever she might lead him, above all, as a confessor of that Truth which is forever revealing itself to the seeker, and is the more loved because never wholly revealable, he is an ennobling possession of mankind. Among My Books First Series
The Liberator 1, while late to the party, can't be easily dismissed from the pack of competitors seeking to win the prize.
It's unlikely that the IHA seeks to return the Emperor to the position that he once held but it's equally unlikely that it favours a democratic, populist approach to the monarchy.
Most of the jobs will disappear through hiving off divisions and seeking voluntary redundancies.
An unabashed populist and publicity seeker he is one of their key fundraisers and fixers.
So time went by very fast, we were now playing outdoor games like tig, hide and seek and marbles or ‘Taws’, as we knew them.
I mean, wouldn't it be dumb for a researcher to spend valuable time and funding seeking phlogiston when his governing theoretic needs no such 'stuff' to explain combustion and he doesn't believe it exists? Behe's Test
About half the people who experience traumatic events and have a diagnosable psychiatric injury do not seek medical help.
Postal Service as it seeks congressional help in dodging much of a $5.5 billion payment due next Thursday into its retiree health benefit fund. Eye Opener: Obama's green czar leaving? Defense contractors regroup, Filipino flag flap
It discovered that the claimants were 13% more likely to have been in work during that time than those in a similar group on jobseeker's allowance. Times, Sunday Times
Not so much a time for learned study, or even a fake attempt at seeking knowledge.
It plans to write to the Crown Office to seek an assurance that a similar incident would not occur.
Applicants who consider that this exception may apply to them should seek detailed advice by writing to the Registry.
He could possibly replace the Republican incumbent, who is not seeking reelection.
I dinna know all the words, but it says, ‘Six bird houses smile at great birds, green fire is in the sunup, arrow brings’” — she frowned, seeking the English word — “‘brings little hope birds.’” Tai-Pan
And while rapper Kreayshawn's refusal to identify with just one particular race is often dismissed as attention-seeking, it actually may reflect something deeper. Nick Shore: What Gaga & Minaj's Alter-Egos Say About the Shape-Shifting Millennial Generation
There are many - too many - first-person accounts of illness but because she doesn't seek to entertain us we are spared the improbable levity and mordant wit that have become standard.
As Hewitt has suggested, feminist utopianism, like symbolic interactionism, seeks to create new conceptual spaces in which radically different ways of being can be imagined and in which different distributions of power, including sexual power, can be conceived (Contemporary 17-21). Feminist Utopianism and Female Sexuality in Joanna Baillies Comedies
The government would be guided by the needs of first home buyers as well as the interests of existing home owners seeking to safeguard their investment.
Postmodernism and social constructionism remind us to be suspect of any constructs that seek to establish themselves as decontextualized truths.
In a just society there must be a system whereby people can seek redress through the courts.
The charity advises all people looking at their options to seek independent advice. Times, Sunday Times
Now, if that spirit of homage within us is sincere, it will naturally seek to exteriorize itself; if it is to be preserved, it must "out. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
In extreme circumstances the customer or supplier may seek to use its strong position and extract personal benefits in return for giving its consent.
If we may apply to art what Goethe said of poetry we find that among its votaries there are two kinds of self-half-informed people, "dilettanti," he calls them, "he who neglects the indispensable mechanical part, and he thinks he has done enough if he shows spirituality and feeling, and he who seeks to arrive at poetry merely by mechanism in which he can acquire an artisan's readiness, and is without soul and matter. Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
His work thus has the tendency to reproduce the elisions of the religious and political polemics of the sixteenth century while seeking to explain them.
As a result they are less willing to accept the increasing costs caused by disruption and seek to recover them through claims.
The more intelligence we can provide, the greater the chance we have to defeat the fakers who seek to dupe the unsuspecting consumer.
Disguises used by female damselflies to avoid unwanted sexual advances can cause males to seek out their own sex, a new study suggests.
Seek out the archery retailer that has recurve bow knowledge.
The site's bosses have seen a rise in the number of positions but the standard of jobseekers with degrees is higher too. The Sun
We should not try to seek a simple explanation for the failure to achieve numerical equity because none exists.
This is what we call the seeking of a harmonious world. CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2009
This is an intervention by legislation in proceedings that have already been instituted and were before the judicature where a person was in criminal proceedings seeking to defend an initial decision.
I will seek my doctor's advice.
We seek a solution that addresses the legitimate concerns of iwi, that is acceptable to the vast majority of New Zealanders, and that ensures public access to our beaches is protected. National Business Review (NBR) New Zealand
The party had already been forced to weed out more than 4,000 people from other parties and hard-left groups seeking votes. Times, Sunday Times
The butte was a holy place; men came there seeking visions. The Berrybender Narratives
This paper seeks to describe and explain observed grade differences in sickness absence.
Therefore, increasing premiums for wealthier seniors is more likely to restrain overutilization than hiking their ... common sense Medicare reforms, like income-adjusted premiums ...will help ensure patients are seeking appropriate care. Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Burr/Coburn Medicare Plan: 10 Deceptions - And A Free-Market "Death Panel"
Moreover, when she eventually stops seeking these abusive men she substitutes their external abuses for a violent form of self-loathing that eventually becomes self-mutilation.
It is often difficult for parents to seek psychological assistance.
The owner is now seeking planning consent for 20 log cabins, screened by 20 ft mature trees to be planted straightway.
A man is not old as long as he is seeking some-thing . A man is not old until Regrets take the place of dreams.
Seek the Kingdom of God and his justice here on earth through effective, brotherly solidarity with the neediest and the marginalized!
He preyed on female job-seekers whom he lured to secluded spots by promising them jobs.
Economically, militarily and culturally, Washington rules the planet, and it seeks to enhance that position in the new century.
Through the symbolism of the heavens the astrologer aims to gain a deeper spiritual knowledge of earthly matters, and seeks to understand the wider significance of the situations that trouble us.
In seeking to avoid the customary exactions of their office, the sheriffs of the present generation were only following in the steps of sheriffs who, more than a century past, exerted themselves to reduce the expenses of shrievalties, and whose economical reforms were defended by reference to the conduct of sheriffs under the last of the Tudors. A Book About Lawyers
$1,500-$2,500 can avoid a threatened court case that would seek $150,000 in damages. just wasn't proper to sue thousands of people this way, because the people have no real connection to one another (a question of "joinder"). Ars Technica
Alternatively, you could seek your own counselling or psychotherapy to try to find the underlying problem and work out what to do about it.
People speak readily of the untended wounds of the dead, but practice silence on the topic of the peaceful, pluralistically driven, and loving Muslims who are seeking to build this center of community. Grant Brooke, M.Div.: Hindsight: Burying the Ghost of Ground Zero
The government of Hunan province in south-central China is reportedly seeking a 10 billion yuan ($1.58 billion) syndicated loan in the Hong Kong market.
Serving as an admonition to all ladies and gentlewomen, not to mock or scorne gentlemen-Schollers, when they make meanes of love to them: Except they intend to seeke their owne shame, by disgracing them The Decameron
Yet this is not all: they are proud still, and therefore they do not seek unto God (Ps.x. 4), or, if they do cry unto him, therefore he does not give answer, for he hears only the desire of the humble (Ps.x. 17) and delivers those by his providence whom he has first by his grace prepared and made fit for deliverance, which we are not if, under humbling afflictions, our hearts remain unhumbled and our pride unmortified. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
This was not the performance of a man who will be seeking time off to mend his marriage. Times, Sunday Times

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