Sentence examples for striving to call from inspiring English sources

To be sure, you didn't over the past few years have to be a professional economist to sense that something was wrong with executive pay, and there have always been people striving to call attention to it.

The UN backed Intra-Syrian talks, Geneva III as they were called, strived to address what a political transition in Syria could look like: a unity government under Assad that will include a robust opposition or a new interim government with full executive powers sans Assad.

His hapless father, regretful of his youthful decision to abandon ship, is striving to connect through phone calls, fried chicken and a surprise visit to make amends before it's too late.

In later centuries, the masses of European immigrants making footfall in New York's streets saw the turbid, jostling, unprecedented mix of peoples, all striving to get ahead, and called the jitteringly new phenomenon "American".

Oprah Winfrey epitomizes the struggle of most women in that every woman is striving to be what society calls "normal".... Through Oprah's yo-yo diets, weight fluctuations and weight-loss shows, one thing is for certain: the idea of body normality weighs heavily with Oprah and many other women throughout the world.

The members of this small group are not building automobiles but "motor cars," as they call them, striving to give each one a unique look.

Lan, as she is called, is striving to be a proper Hue woman herself.

Interwoven with the historical scenes is the story of a young woman, tellingly called Faith, striving to escape a tangled past; in Joan Crawford's troubled antiheroine Mildred Pierce she finds an image of salvation.

On this basis, the Waterloo team calls for "striving to host the Olympic Winter Games in harmony with nature" and champions "carbon neutral" gatherings.

West Bromwich Albion striker Saido Berahino, 21, says he is striving to earn an England call-up.

This was truly my wake-up call from striving to live other people's expectations for my life.