Sentence examples for strive to catch from inspiring English sources

President Hu said at the Tibet Work Conference that Tibet should strive to catch up with the national average by 2020.

Many of those now fighting the president hope that once his regime falls Russia will once again look Westward and its society and culture will strive to catch up to its European neighbors.

The letter convinced Bohr that the Soviets were aware of the Anglo-American project, and would strive to catch up.

In the past year, male models have been striving to catch up with the women.

They are striving to catch up, and less enthusiastic about crimping economic growth to cool a warming planet.

Still, in the United States, at least, satellite television still has some running room, even as cable strives to catch up.

So far, I.B.M. is the only microchip maker mass-producing such chips, though Motorola and some others are striving to catch up.

The company is innovative (spending 5.7% of revenues on research and development, a figure GE's industrial side has been striving to catch up with) but its poor execution of projects has been a millstone dragging down profitability.

Britain finished the race just out of their lane as they strove to catch the French but they did not impede the race winners New Zealand, who were over two lengths clear of the field.

The less mature students, on the other hand, experienced positive effects from being in a relatively more mature environment: in striving to catch up with their peers, they ended up surpassing them.

Sitting across are developing nations decades, even centuries, behind in affluence, nutrition, literacy and urbanization; striving to catch up, they are less enthusiastic about crimping economic growth to cool a warming planet.