Sentence examples for efforts to pull ahead from inspiring English sources

By the close of the third quarter the USA were fully awake and shrugged off Andrés Nocioni's best efforts to pull ahead 74-57.

"If a state makes some strong efforts to pull ahead — be it infrastructure, incentives or zoning — that makes it easier for people to put charging stations in their garage, we'd reconsider," Mr. Brockman said.

Hoping to break the cycle, Mr. Herrera announced two weeks ago that he would stop running negative advertising, a move some saw as a last-ditch effort to pull ahead in the race.

Both Clinton and Sanders's campaigns have called in reinforcements in a last-ditch effort to pull ahead this final week.

A senior campaign aide, Jennifer Palmieri, said Clinton was ready for whatever Trump might say in an effort to pull ahead.

He pulled even and held serve to pull ahead, 6-5.

Over time, though, Fifa continued to pull ahead commercially.

Having staved off elimination, Azarenka served to pull ahead at 5-5 in the second set.

Adapted from "Want to Pull Ahead of the Competition?" by Michael Wheeler (professor, Harvard Business School), first published in the Negotiation newsletter.

They'll need to expand to other cohorts to pull ahead.

For Clinton to pull ahead, she will need to win 57% of the remaining pledged delegates.