Sentence examples for always to strike from inspiring English sources

His impulse was always to strike and keep striking until the object of his wrath was destroyed.

Aides to the Obama campaign said Sunday that Senator Biden's goal was always to strike a workable compromise between the competing interests on the bankruptcy bill, and that he was not influenced by his son's work for MBNA or the campaign donations.

No two acts of bullying are the same because bullying is always personal, always meant to strike home with that individual person, to make that individual feel as if she is completely worthless to the world.

That 13th hour is always about to strike.

This is of a piece with sentimental and outworn notion that it is always wrong to strike a lady.

They don't have to kowtow to a boss — no small thing in a country in which people have always longed to strike out on their own.

The problem of the encyclopaedist has always been to strike the right mean between too learned and too simplified an approach.

We're always trying to strike a balance between what the kids need, and to ensure we're not dropping in the league tables.

• The New Statesman is always keen to strike a blow for literacy and culture, and did so valiantly with a competition run with Routledge.

She kept a thick album of pictures of him, a tall man always eager to strike a pose for the camera.

There are actually three or four of them in London, and me and Simon used to meet at the one in Camden before going to the cinema, and it always used to strike me as something funny to say.