Sentence examples for trying to outperform from inspiring English sources

The Cubs are ahead by a game, trying to outperform Houston and outrun history.

Mr. Mauboussin followed Mr. Miller to Santa Fe and now lectures there on the futility of trying to outperform the stock market consistently.

"Edinburgh is like the Olympics," she said, "a lot of unfinished buildings, and a bunch of amateurs trying to outperform each other".

The Obama Administration, alert to the lessons of 2005, is trying to outperform expectations and get itself right with Pakistani public opinion by providing visible relief to flood victims.

Yet another reason to pick index funds: Index funds tend to be the cheapest investments available, in addition to doing quite well over time when compared to other funds run by people trying to outperform everyone else's market predictions.

Is the volatility behind us now? A. If you are a short-term investor trying to outperform the indexes between now and the end of the year, we cannot say that this is the time to jump in.

Paying more to managers who try to outperform the averages rarely works in the long run.

"In the bond market," Ms. Beyer said, "we try to outperform by inches".

My target every game after that was to try to outperform him.

No matter how we try to outperform it, and we do nowadays, it's still going to affect us.

All that's left is to act out their dysfunction onstage and try to outperform each other.