Sentence examples for general drive from inspiring English sources

But this relates more to a general drive by Barclays to get out of less profitable businesses than a reflection on Russia.

"There's a general drive to do everything with less," said another television correspondent, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because he did not have permission to comment publicly.

The general drive is to make the Italian job market more flexible, and to streamline relations with the trade unions to create a more "European" Italy and speed up growth, as Monti has said.

Television needs fewer little kids who behave psychotically and toss off preternaturally witty remarks, and more little kids who do what little kids are supposed to do: put paint buckets where adults will step in them, cause grumpy neighbors to be mistakenly hauled off to jail (as happens to Mr. Wilson at the end of Episode 1) and in general drive adults crazy.

The collaboration is part of a more general drive by the French resort company to upgrade its image - they are also in the process of completing a more "exclusive" and luxurious hotel, Le Riad, adjacent to La Palmeraie, due to be completed around February and the first of its Finest collection.

It is the spark because, as the general drive to do good, synderesis provides the movement that conscience needs to operate.

The attorney general drives liberals crazy with his assaults on civil liberties, but we do have courts to sort that out (as they are already doing).

Despite efforts to distinguish such motivational factors as general drives from selective incentives, attempts to demonstrate significant motivational effects in human psychomotor learning have met with only modest success.

Finally, Michael Whouley, who volunteered for Mr. Kerry at the age of 23 and is now the Democratic Party's pre-eminent field general, drove his point home for 20 minutes that Monday night.

Little Dorrit is rich in epicycles: here a little flourish of Barnacles or an orbit for Mr F's aunt; there a moon called Bleeding Heart Yard; and, just over there, a minor planet on which Mrs General drives the proprieties in the form of elocution lessons for genteel young ladies ("papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prisms").

Weingarten also notes that, at present, clicks from The Hunt are converting to purchases on e-commerce destinations at around 1.5 to 2percentt – an increase from the typical conversion rates of somewhere in the range of 0.1 to 0.4percentthatat social media, in general, drives.