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Seward
[ soo-erd ]
noun
- William Henry, 1801–72, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1861–69.
Seward
/ ˈsjuːəd /
noun
- SewardWilliam Henry18011872MUSPOLITICS: statesman William Henry. 1801–72, US statesman; secretary of state (1861–69). He was a leading opponent of slavery and was responsible for the purchase of Alaska (1867)
Example Sentences
When a media company hires in one specific market, its staff will only look like that one market, Seward said.
Seward and O’Keefe cited the tight labor market and competitive media industry as reasons for casting a wider net to find talent.
Seward believes the pushback from employees is “coinciding with a wave of employee activism.”
“The way I think about it is we want each employee to be as best equipped to do their work as possible,” Seward said.
“The thing that excites me most is the opportunity to be a start-up again,” the Seward said.
Plus, he crafted the Lyons-Seward Treaty, joining the U.S and Great Britain in suppressing the international slave trade.
He struggled with his brilliant but irascible secretary of state, William Seward, to control the direction of foreign policy.
Nevertheless, when Gurowski publicly aired his grievances, Lincoln and Seward had no choice but to cashier him.
Zachary Seward reports that they are lowering the alcohol content very slightly, by about 3%.
The Seward Johnson is a 204-foot research vessel that set out from American Samoa to Howland Island to look for the plane.
Hogarth comes from "hoggart," a hog-herd; Calvert from "calf-herd;" and Seward from "sow-herd."
I told you of him, Dr. John Seward, the lunatic-asylum man, with the strong jaw and the good forehead.
Mr. Seward astonished me very much one day by a remark showing his detachment from the great world of European thought and power.
Mr. Seward was no exception to this common frailty among mankind.
From promptings of humanity Secretary Seward tried hard to save the Imperial prisoner, but without success.
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