"seek" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He was vice president of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress in 1910, and persistently sought better shipping facilities and lower freight rates on the Tennessee River.
- Ho persistently sought an end to the boycott, and throughout his Consulship, fought the tongs.
- He persistently sought to acquire land from the Cherokee and Chickasaw, and attempted to suppress the activities of hostile Choctaws and Creeks.
- Duck remains stoic in front of the turmoil, impassively coping with Carol's hysteric instructions and his impending outing while persistently seeking Dan's company.
- From the mid-1970's through the early 90's, Iraq continuously, persistently and ambitiously sought nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
- Russia in the early 1900s persistently sought a warm water port on the Pacific Ocean for the navy as well as to facilitate maritime trade.
- Coleus, just as with all the other mints, seeks persistently to produce seed.
- During that period, he persistently sought to rehabilitate himself with the regime, praising it in several manifestos, including its decision to declare war against Germany and Italy.
- My point rather, is that by persistently seeking to challenge a derogation which was clearly understood by all sides at the time, this Parliament is acting in bad faith.
- While himself an ardent Protestant, he persistently sought to provide for his poorer countrymen the religious instruction of their choice.
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