Sentence examples for seeking glory from inspiring English sources

State-owned enterprises, seeking glory on the pitch, lavished government money on the teams they sponsored.

Biologically, they don't have much in common, but all three protagonists are strivers, seeking glory that transcends species and status.

There are climbers seeking glory, urbanites seeking respite, believers seeking salvation, protesters seeking change, flaneurs seeking amusements, joggers seeking slimness.

At first glance the libretto may seem a simplistic riff on Ariosto: the renowned knight Orlando, sick of seeking glory through combat, turns his attention to love.

Working alone from a keyboard in the basement of his suburban Massachusetts home, Farley is not seeking glory – he wants to fill people's search queries.

When paediatricians in Brisbane refused to release a badly burnt baby back into detention on Nauru and doctors and nurses in Melbourne protested about the harm done to children in detention, they were not seeking glory but doing what's right.

Rather than seek glory in losing battles, Obama's interest has been in what works.

She counselled the students to seek glory — the glory of making selfless ethical choices — not fame.

To seek martyrdom for the revolution was to seek glory, the doctrine goes.

"They are modest and incredibly hard-working people, who don't seek glory at all".

Partly this is because the world has fewer and fewer unconquered spots; those who seek glory have to create ever more ornate challenges and stunts.