寻求 in English:

seek opportunities

There are those, who, in distress, seek the help of other people's prayers, but have no mind to pray for themselves.

Make no mistake: we do not want to keep our troops in Afghanistan. We seek no military bases there.

There must be a sustained effort to listen to each other; to learn from each other; to respect one another; and to seek common ground.

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Risk money refers to funds placed in investments that seek high-return, although high-risk, investments.

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.

Seek, and you will find.

They vote in secret, may seek public office, and may demand the removal of public officials who behave improperly.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

He sought shelter from the rain.

n reaction, they sought to create new work in and around Chicago that would display a uniquely modern and authentically American style, which came to be called Prairie.

That talent is much sought after.

Admission to the club is eagerly sought.

People eagerly sought a more modernised style of dress and transformed the old qipao to suit their tastes.

He immediately sought a response.

He sought for his name.

When participants were sought at the end of June all, about 500, seats were reserved in under a week.

So they sought a place such that the conference seating would have them facing the Americans.

I've found a long sought brother

He sought serenity, closeted in study, remote from the wear and tear of the world.

they sought happines

legal ​advice should be sought before you take any ​further ​action.

Since a large area was devastated by the Tohoku earthquake of 2011, a sustained help effort is sought.