Sentence examples for striving to emulate from inspiring English sources

It was Joshua's success that Nick spent his teenage years striving to emulate.

A hardy few dozen remained in place for the entire performance, striving to emulate the intense concentration the players were mustering.

Ocarinas, with their tremulous intonation, might be mocking or striving to emulate; their expression, while forceful in this recording, remains neatly ambiguous.

But investors remained sceptical; Vivendi's shares fell yet again after the deal went through.Approval of a $230 billion merger between Time Warner and America Online, the deal that Vivendi is striving to emulate in Europe, could face delays.

Anyone voting for me is assured that I will continue striving to emulate Chaucer's Clerk of Oxenford: "Sownynge in moral vertu was his speche, / And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche".

In fact, it is arguable that Chile is less in need of writers striving to emulate "greats" like Proust or Borges, or those seeking to produce the novelistic equivalent of Amores Perros, than of writers of imaginative compassion capable of delving into the "rubbish dump" of the fragmented and socially segregated society that is post-Pinochet Chile.

Priests should strive to emulate the sinless, sexless Christ.

Among them was Burt Lancaster, whose example as his own stunt man Lee strove to emulate.

One original was titled "Earl Hines," after the pianist whose style it strives to emulate.

In his secular life, Father Repo says whimsically that he strives to emulate President Obama.

I always strove to emulate that model: to educate patients on the medical facts isn't enough.