Sentence examples for drove vigorously from inspiring English sources

Finn, rampaging in from the Pavilion end, was thrice clattered to the boundary in his first seven deliveries by Shane Watson, but came back strongly to have him well caught by Joe Root at third slip as he drove vigorously.

Amir sent a length ball wide off the off-stump and the batsman, flat-footed, drove vigorously away from his body, the ball moving back into him off the pitch and taking the inside edge.

But like Trott even Cook's powers of concentration wavered and with fewer than four overs of the day remaining he too drove vigorously at Kane Williamson's offbreak where he need not have done, and Dean Brownlie held a stupendous reflex catch at slip.

The tendency is to drive gingerly, to save precious energy, but the Leaf can be driven vigorously.

Nothing will drive F.D.I. more vigorously to India than a string of IPOs that attain stratospheric valuations on global exchanges.

Pied currawongs vigorously drive off threats such as ravens, and engage in bill-snapping, dive-bombing and aerial pursuit.

At times, his heroic "associations" seem to be our hated "interest groups": "The association gathers the efforts of divergent minds in a cluster and drives them vigorously toward a single goal".

"Administrations fight these unionizing drives pretty vigorously".

Instead, most discussion of education centered on charges made by Meg Whitman that Brown drove Oakland schools into bankruptcy, an assertion vigorously rejected by Brown and most independent observers.

Keselowski, who drives for Team Penske, vigorously defended his actions after the Texas race.

Pressing hard or rubbing vigorously can drive the stain deeper into the fibers.