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Example sentences for: sought

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To investigate whether binding to PIP 2 may be important for Boi1 function, we sought to make mutant versions of Boi1-PH that are defective in the ability to bind PIP 2 . As a guide for designing such mutants, we used information about one of the PH domains from pleckstrin.
Its lawyers have sought the removal of Lessig and the judge.
He did to some extent, (though deasil was not in, so I sought in vain under shadow for antiscian , which is about as obscure as one can get.
3) The Washington Post reported that FedEx Chairman Frederick Smith sought favorable trade policies in a private meeting with President Clinton while FedEx was contributing more than half-a-million dollars to Democrats.
The NYT says the Census Bureau had sought sampling to avoid the inaccuracies of the head-counting 1990 census, which missed 8.4 million people.