Sentence examples for striking better from inspiring English sources

Striking better balance Even so, experts predict greater gender balance within corporations.

Just as the discounters have helped eat into the big supermarkets' sales, Poundland is taking advantage by striking better deals that help it keep prices low.

The stock jumped nearly 10% after the City shrugged off the retailer's 13th quarter of declining clothing sales, reassured by chief executive Marc Bolland's promise that it was making a bigger profit on the fashion it did actually sell after striking better deals with suppliers and cutting back on store discounts.

Eliminating unnecessary expenses and improving processes saved an estimated $900 million; changing product designs to use more common parts and shifting manufacturing to cheaper locations saved $1 billion; and $1 billion came from striking better deals with component suppliers.

So it was difficult to muster much sympathy for the well-paid pilots, who after all were not striking for better wages but demanding cash instead of stock options as part of their salaries when Air France is partly privatized later this year.

Third, and most striking, the "better alternative" favored by Mr. Hansen, a revenue-neutral carbon tax, is virtually identical in its environmental consequences, economic costs and administrative requirements to an economywide cap-and-trade system among producers and importers of fossil fuels.

If one could not feed one's children (and being able to feed one's children is still in itself an act of love), then joining the party and striking for better pay was an act of hope to ensure the family's survival.

A more striking — and better-lit — Delacroix ("Christ in the Garden of Olive Trees") hangs above a doorway in St.-Paul-St.-Louis in the Marais on the other side of town.

They prevent disease from striking, which is better than treating it after the fact.

Mourinho denied that he made a mistake in not ensuring that Chelsea had better striking options available to them after failing to prise Wayne Rooney from Manchester United last summer.

I can't see a better striking combination in the world at the moment than Aguero and Suarez.