Sentence examples for served to give from inspiring English sources

Attacking a professional only served to give him further kudos within his group.

It dispelled Mr Uribe's image as a warmonger, and served to give additional legitimacy to his plans for a military build-up.

It also served to give a glimpse of how the financial community in Hong Kong views the debt-crisis travails of Europe.

The maturity that came with the decision served to give Wie back her burning drive to succeed and temper her fear of failure.

The charges and countercharges only served to give more publicity to the commercial, which is running in Ohio, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

But his vehement appropriation of the ideas of the far-right Front National's Marine Le Pen have only served to give her more credibility and legitimacy.

Sometimes anxiety serves to give us some backdrop against which to measure joy.

But she faulted on her next serve to give the opposition eight match points.

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At 6-6, serving to give himself a second match point, Tipsarevic again tried to overpower his tension, wildly double-faulting.

Some of the players, she said, may figure that denying something only serves to give it longer legs.