Sentence examples for practicing to win from inspiring English sources
After intermission, Daria Polatin's "D.C.," directed by R. J. Tolan, enters a high school classroom after hours to find romance budding between the braces- and bracelet-wearing Mandy and the unself-confident Wilbur, extremely bright adolescents practicing to win a spelling bee.
"Nobody plays to lose, but we practice to win," said Sikes, who was supposed to be one of the weak links in a secondary that was rebuilding after three of its four defensive backs were selected in the first round of the N.F.L. draft.
Canada changed its practices to win approval from the organization, but Brazil did not.
An election court today found that Rahman had "driven a coach and horses" through local authority law and "engaged in corrupt and illegal practices" to win elections.
In Congressional testimony, Mr. Crane accused the administration of tailoring its enforcement practices to win support from immigrant communities for Mr. Obama's re-election.
It was a source of great amusement to Obama's staff that people thought they could use conventional schmoozing practices to win favor with them.
PSA has had to break with longstanding practices to win back traffic, which picked up a bit in June and July.
Chipperfield, who beat two Swedish architecture practices to win the design competition, said last week that such major public projects would inevitably run into opposition.
Using internal documents, e-mail messages and even a videotape as evidence, lawmakers on a Senate panel argued today that Merrill Lynch, one of the nation's largest and most respected brokerage firms, repeatedly cut corners and compromised its business practices to win more investment-banking fees from Enron.
To meet her family's charge that he had practiced magic to win her affection, he wrote the Apologia ("Defense"), the major source for his biography.
