Sentence examples for try to excel from inspiring English sources

"When college students perceive that the average grade in a class will be an A, they do not try to excel," they write.

Having a professional fitness organization operate the gym also eases any pressure on hotels to try to excel in an unfamiliar arena.

For anyone who ever had to deal with a vicious screwball of a boss, or live in a house haunted by domestic violence, or beat cancer, or try to excel as an athlete despite not having been blessed with an athlete's body, Joe Torre, or at least the idea of Joe Torre, has been a comforting presence.

Q: You were an employment attorney for about six years and when you left to start your own firm, you formed a group with about eight women of color who all left traditional law practice to start their own practices or businesses rather than try to excel in a setting where they felt underappreciated.

"I try to excel in all areas and I've never been asked for a refund, so I don't know".

My whole life my mom has pushed me -- not only me but my little brother and little sister -- to try to excel as much as possible in school.

He tried to excel on defense but could not stop Matsui.

Brains formed in the hunter-gatherer era are now trying to excel in the tweeting-blogging era.

"War" is a film that tries to excel on several levels and falls flat on all of them.

But in 2003 she started running, swimming and cycling, and tried to excel in all three at once.

But California is already a huge market, with much more insurance competition than in other states; unfortunately, insurers compete mainly by trying to excel in the art of denying coverage to those who need it most.