Translation for '
to seek' from English to Greek
| VERB | to seek | sought | sought seeking | seeks |
| SYNO | to assay | to attempt | to essay | ... |
VERB to infinitive | simple past | past participle
present participle | 3rd person
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Usage Examples English
- Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights of refugees by ensuring anyone can exercise the right to seek asylum in another state, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally or resettle in a third country.
- In his desire to seek to establish Biblical truth and test orthodox Christian beliefs through independent scriptural study he was not alone.
- A centripetal force (from Latin "centrum", "center" and "petere", "to seek") is a force that makes a body follow a curved path.
- Those in troubled marriages are encouraged to seek counseling and restoration because, according to some advocates of traditional marriage ethics, most divorces are neither necessary nor unavoidable.
- Not only does that seem like an unreasonable number of launchings, but it would take all the material in one percent of the universe's stars to produce all the spaceships needed for all the civilizations to seek each other out.
- Blue light generally causes chloroplasts to seek shelter, while red light draws them out to maximize light absorption.
- Following the US decision of July 1972 to renounce the use of climate modification techniques for hostile purposes, the 1973 resolution by the US Senate calling for an international agreement "prohibiting the use of any environmental or geophysical modification activity as a weapon of war", and an in-depth review by the Department of Defense of the military aspects of weather and other environmental modification techniques, US decided to seek agreement with the Soviet Union to explore the possibilities of an international agreement.
- Continued racial discrimination and lynchings, agricultural depression, and the failure of the cotton crops due to boll weevil infestation led tens of thousands of African Americans from rural Alabama and other states to seek opportunities in northern and midwestern cities during the early decades of the 20th century as part of the Great Migration out of the South.
- France insisted on its ownership, and a lengthy diplomatic correspondence between Mexico and France led to the conclusion of a treaty on 2 March 1909, to seek binding international arbitration by King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, with each nation promising to abide by his determination.
- Bakassian leaders threatened to seek independence if Nigeria renounced sovereignty.
- However, if the debtor fails to make the agreed upon payments or fails to seek or gain court approval of a modified plan, a bankruptcy court will normally dismiss the case on the motion of the trustee.
- Zyraxes escaped with his treasure and fled over the Danube into Scythia to seek aid from the Bastarnae.
- The Naturalization Act increased the requirements to seek citizenship, the Alien Friends Act allowed the president to imprison and deport non-citizens, the Alien Enemies Act gave the president additional powers to detain non-citizens during times of war, and the Sedition Act criminalized false and malicious statements about the federal government.
- The urban middle and upper class tended to seek their own power and supported progressive movements in the aftermath of revolutions in Europe.
- Abeyance can be used in cases where parties are interested in temporarily settling litigation while still holding the right to seek relief later if necessary.
- Finally, the Confederation's lack of coercive power reduced the likelihood for profit to be made by political means, thus potential rulers were uninspired to seek power.
- The results revealed a couple key variables that create barriers for many African American communities to seek mental health services such as the stigma, lack of four important necessities; trust, affordability, cultural understanding and impersonal services.
- A section of the guard may have planned in advance to seek out Claudius, [...] perhaps with his approval.
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