Sentence examples for try to outstrip from inspiring English sources

In his autumn statement the chancellor may try to outstrip Clegg, who recently called for the personal tax allowance to be increased to £10,500 by April 2015, by saying that it should be raised by an even higher amount.

Faced with dramatic real-life headlines about resigning DGs and pitch battles between Newsnight and Panorama, the writers have made the error of trying to outstrip them.

Tells about the largest and fastest ferry, the Richmond; races between ferries trying to outstrip each other, and to hell with the passengers.

The end result, in most cases, is one contestant trying to outstrip the other in terms of volume and feistiness on stage.

Yet the impression descends early that the sweaty energy the show gives off isn't so much about a man's trying to outrun death as about a musical's trying to outstrip its sense of its own inadequacy.

Mr. Hong said his most effective coping mechanism for feeling outstripped by his friends' wealth — beyond his choice of cars — is to try to put it out of his mind.

He earned it for his brilliantly conceived script about a private-eye team in seventies Los Angeles who try to live by a strong-silent-guy code at a time when laws and mores have outstripped their hardboiled style.

Restrictive trade measures have outstripped liberalising measures three to one this year and increased by almost five times since 2009, as policymakers try to circumvent the WTO.

Those who could move broke and ran, trying generally in vain, to outstrip the cloud which followed inexorably after them".

Like, I'm sure, every creator of animated movies in the world, I've spent the last year trying to unpick what made Frozen a phenomenon that outstripped all expectations.

With everyone trying to cash in realizing the situation, supply outstrips demand and many face big losses.