Sentence examples for striving team from inspiring English sources

Being a striving team trying to keep up in a big-time conference can be a particular kind of debacle.

Three weeks ago, the Houston Texans were the darlings of the A.F.C. at 2-0, a striving team that had finally toppled the entrenched Indianapolis Colts in what seemed an inevitable rise to the playoffs.

Besides actively recruiting, the company is striving to team up more with Chinese academics, clinicians, and local biotech as well as providing basic research grants no strings attached to promote understanding of disease processes.

"For a team striving to be championship caliber, you've got to overcome that," he said.

As Nathan Buckley mused after the game, they're a good team striving to become a great team.

In their many straps and bucklings, they looked like a SWAT team, striving faces pointed eagerly at the hog.

When gaps failed to appear, a Liverpool team striving to achieve something akin to Total Football fell short.

The story of this Yankees season is one of an injury-depleted team striving to succeed but unable to overcome their offensive deficiencies, even as their once-stout pitching finally gave way.

And then, on 28 July, Wiggins will be part of a small team striving to help Mark Cavendish win Britain's first gold medal of 2012 in the road race.

On their HBO series they play a novelty pop-music team striving to make it big — or medium, or small — on the New York scene, and they muddle through performances at tiny, mostly empty clubs and airport lounges.

Even sitting at our desks, we're striving to be team players, trying to "knock the ball out of the park".