There are profound reasons why society has historically held that lawyers should not publicly seek cases.

Soviet officials today sought publicly to discount the significance of Dr. Sakharov's trip.

Dissident Feng Zhenghu was detained in mid April 2010 for threatening to publicly seek redress for them in the courts.

This distressed Winston-Salem officials who were counting on I-73, though Greensboro had never publicly sought the road.

The next year he took full page advertisements in New York newspapers, publicly seeking a new lawyer to represent him in family disputes.

Although they were publicly seeking silver, Loria had privately challenged engineers to shoot for the higher gold certification.

Leaders from both countries publicly sought to play down the divisions.

Tuur concurrently began instead to publicly seek and advocate reconciliation with the rest of Somalia under a power-sharing federal system of governance.

"The public has a legitimate interest in knowing whether or not her own behavior is consistent with the virtuous image that she publicly seeks to promote."

But while news executives publicly sought to present a united front behind CNN on the constitutional issues, some privately questioned the wisdom of the network's tactics.