Sentence examples for efforts to exceed from inspiring English sources

Thousands of companies are making good-faith efforts to exceed legal requirements.

His efforts to exceed Chinese regulatory standards and his willingness to share best practices with competitors were not initially popular with his investors.

Although standards may encourage development of lower cost means of meeting the standards' specific requirements, they do not encourage efforts to exceed those standards.

Net-net accounting relates the accountable emissions or removals to a defined reference year or reference period, by which a specific level for accountability is introduced and only "additional" efforts to exceed or failures to meet past emission/removal levels are honoured.

Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, rivals and mutual admirers, fuelled each other's work: Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" was an effort to exceed the savagery of Matisse's "Nu Bleu".

This year, the numbers you produced in 2007 will be hard to beat; but as a business, we must rise to the challenge, and make every effort to exceed last year's sales results.

The sales effort will be a specific and conscious effort to exceed the customer's expectations.

Fishing effort not to exceed current levels.

Challenging employees and acknowledging their efforts will motivate them to exceed expectations and bring meaning to their work.

Originally projected to cost $1.8 billion this year, the reform effort is now expected to exceed those estimates by $150 million.

(According to Negrych, the firm has made "extraordinary efforts to meet and exceed every compliance requirement related to allowing me to work from home").