Sentence examples for try and attain from inspiring English sources

That's the balance to try and attain.

He made me realize that there was a level of excellence to try and attain, and I still think I'm working at that till this day".

In The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf wrote about the "Iron Maiden", an inherently unattainable ideal of beauty that women are encouraged to try and attain, and are subsequently psychologically punished by their inability to do so.

I still use that as a mental example of the perfect atmosphere to try and attain in the Steak work.

Mr. Scorsese, who has followed Mr. Lonergan's work for years, said by telephone: "He has a basic element which a lot of people try to attain and never do -- his understanding of the human being and his ability to convey that in writing.

With the articulation of a shared vision or the first dimension of transformational leadership identified as critical for teacher learning, the transformational school leader inspires teachers to formulate shared goals, connect to these, commit to them and try to attain them with increased teacher cooperation as a result (Thoonen et al. 2011).

Sit up straight and try to attain a perfect posture by pulling in your abdominal muscles, straightening your back and pushing back your soldiers.

Now we are examining Megan's loyalty to a man who opens the door to the kind of enormous potential success that Peggy and Joan sweated bullets to try to attain -- and Joan was forced to prostitute herself for -- and the ambition and risk necessary to do what one always dreamed of doing (or so Megan's father told her was her dream).

It was concluded that these women had a complicated relationship with clothes fit and sizing and used well-fitting clothes to increase body confidence, cover perceived flaws, and to try to attain a slender hourglass look.

They are held to a standard of beauty that most cannot and needn't try to attain.

Intrigued by the idea that you can improve how you feel without a) buying a new gadget b) draining four pints of lager c) trying (and failing) to attain a six-pack at the gym, I decide to go to Brighton to put it to the test.