Sentence examples for try to accrue from inspiring English sources

My old manager is of the opinion that comedians are only popular for a short time, and that in that time they should try to accrue as much as possible.

Employees who feel exploited by their organizations, who feel they are powerless against inflexible organizational rules, try to accrue personal power in any way they can.

"I'm trying to accrue value and cool points with the fans," Mr. Strange said.

He dismisses the new combined authorities as the "same old middle-aged men who are simply trying to accrue a few more powers to themselves and call that devolution".

"Over the last two and a half years, we've been trying to accrue talent, and I think we are on the threshold of improving performance and record," Alderson said.

Those of us trying to preserve our integrity as journalists fight a constant rearguard action – against proprietors who set little store by integrity, and against a government that tries to accrue power by restricting freedom of expression and ringfencing public debate.

Despite the lifesaving care of her clinic, Pomerleau faces an uphill battle trying to accrue these services for herself.

Here, we tried to accrue knowledge of aberrations occurring in lung adenocarcinoma in never smokers with the goal to uncover new aberrations that would include cancer genes.

Four matched controls were tried to accrue per case.

$26.95 Chang-rae Lee is fond of words like "accrete" and "accrue," words that try to name the slow, almost imperceptible processes by which experience acquires weight, mass and, if you're lucky, meaning.

Bush administration officials have begun to try to exploit the psychological advantage that is accruing from the fact that they appear to be winning in Afghanistan.