"seek" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It was not built by men who sought self-immolation or by men who sought handouts.
- It boasts one of the largest free-roaming bison herds in the world (about 1500), the famous 'begging burros' (donkeys seeking handouts) and more than 200 species of bird.
- While the first verse takes on affection, the second verse exhibits Murs confronting sucker MCs seeking handouts.
- Musicians, Muslims selling fragrant oils, petitioners seeking signatures and homeless people seeking handouts would all have to stay 20 feet away from token booths and stairwells and 15 feet from turnstiles.
- They emphasized they were seeking business deals and partnerships, not handouts or aid money.
- The survey found that 60 percent of the 21 million recipients of Second Harvest food in 1997 said they had sought handouts because of a chronic food gap, and nearly 40 percent of the households had at least one person employed.
- We are not seeking lavish handouts from American taxpayers or the international community - we are asking only for what is rightfully ours.
- But if other clubs used the Indians' method as a model, they might not be seeking handouts in the form of revenue sharing; the owners wouldn't have to go begging to the players for a salary cap to finance their revenue-sharing plan, and everyone could be playing baseball.
- In the late 19th century, after public relief was drastically cut in an effort to end "pauperism," private charity organization societies with the motto "not alms but a friend" promoted investigations to curb the "unworthy" poor from seeking multiple handouts and slipping back into dependency.
- But as was the case in Vancouver, Administration officials took pains to present Mr. Yeltsin as an equal participant rather than as a beggar seeking handouts.
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