Sentence examples for straining to create from inspiring English sources

It has also joined forces with Heineken, a rival, to attack an even bigger rival, SABMiller, in its South African castle.And it has been straining to create new products.

The smartly staged, wonderfully sung concert version, which runs through tomorrow, knows the show's strength, and it doesn't make the mistake -- as Encores! sometimes has in recent ventures -- of straining to create the illusion of a full-dress production.

But there is no escaping the didactic feeling of these speeches or the sense that Mr. Mitchell is straining to create a hulking physical presence, with his open-legged stance and wide-armed gestures.

The difference between episode four and the previous three is that here the situation provides the comedy and the pace, rather than some laboured one-liners straining to create atmosphere.

Since the pro-Israeli marchers and supporters numbered in the hundreds of thousands, and the pro-Palestinian group in the hundreds, the photograph and a pair of related photographs in the Metro section reinforced the critics' impression that The Times was straining to create a sense of equivalence.

Muhammad may have strained to create an alternative universe, but ultimately the Nation of Islam remained a decidedly home-grown institution.

"Renoir" doesn't strain to create a deeper sense of artistic continuity between father and son beyond suggesting that Pierre-Auguste and Jean shared a vision of life expressed in the father's advice to "let yourself be carried through life like a cork on water".

Vaccine producers then combine protein fragments from those strains to create a new vaccine.

The longer the avian strain of influenza, H5N1, stays around, virologists fear, the greater the chances that it will swap genes with a human strain to create an entirely new virus and, possibly, a pandemic.

While health officials are deeply concerned that the spread among bird populations might lead to huge economic losses and food scarcities in some areas, their biggest fear is that the virus might swap genes with a human influenza strain to create a new one that could cause a worldwide epidemic among people.

A dozen chairs in the bistro's back room were quickly filled, and the band began by playing a number laced with enough spaghetti western strains to create the feeling that Charles Bronson, six-gun in hand, was about to walk into the room.