But the banks lost much of that business to Wall Street firms and foreign competitors, forcing them to seek other avenues for growth.

"I will continue to seek other avenues in which to testify," he said in an interview.

They were seeking new avenues of entry, to attack The Shadow, from every angle.

Finding her boundaries, Rafael realized, and seeking avenues of escape.

Bradley Smith has more recently sought other avenues to promote Holocaust denial - with little success.

We always seek peaceful avenues before resorting to the use of force, and we did.

If a superior response to an employee's effort to dissent is negative this may cause the employee to seek other avenues of dissent.

Since then, the country has made great strides, economically, politically and socially, and continues to seek new avenues for development, including tourism.

Seeing the stairs gone, they sought other avenues of escape.

The mud then sought other avenues of escape, eventually breaking through the earth, and creating mud volcanoes.