Sentence examples for scramble to be from inspiring English sources

Despite Hollywood's scramble to be sensitive after the school massacre in Newtown, Conn.

The scramble to be involved in Darfur meant duplication of effort and accusations of unseemly touting for business.

Asset managers do not like to underperform their peers, so they would scramble to be the first to sell.

As companies scramble to be seen as thought leaders, they are likely to end up just repackaging existing ideas instead of listening out for genuinely new ones.

"European companies are in a pretty mad scramble to be global," said Donald Meltzer, co-head of global mergers and acquisitions at Credit Suisse First Boston in London.

OVER the past few years, the companies that deliver multi-channel pay-television, whether by cable, satellite or a terrestrial digital signal, have been piling up debt in the scramble to be ready for the digital interactive revolution.

Ski hire shops, bars and restaurants were scrambling to be ready for the unexpected early start.

"There are a lot of people scrambling to be in the lead and get control of it," one MP said.

For the time being, governments are scrambling to be the rescuers.

Declining TV viewership has left tech behemoths scrambling to be first to capture the mindshare of web audiences.

Hence, many are always scrambling to be interviewed for TV news and on Sunday shows.