Sentence examples for was endeavouring from inspiring English sources

Hannah Griffiths, Faber's publisher of paperbacks, said the company was endeavouring "to keep our backlist writers in the minds and hands of new readers".

We admire him for his sense of order, and for the fact that he always thought so hard about what he was endeavouring to achieve; that, in short, he was almost always so admirably cerebral.

A negro was imprisoned in the gaol on a charge of murdering a policeman who was endeavouring to arrest him, and on Sunday a mob set out to break into the gaol and lynch the negro".

The story goes that Catherine the Great murdered her husband to gain the throne, and, even more memorably, was a nymphomaniac who died after being crushed by a horse she was endeavouring to have sex with.

Even as I explained to a room of mildy interested students that they must abandon their personal observations of the world for the objective categories of sociological theory, I would have a sudden and disturbing image of Artaud throwing open the door and, in one bound, freeing my charges from the conceptual apparatus I was endeavouring to tie around their necks.

He said the government was "endeavouring to ensure" that UK-based pharmaceutical research, manufacturing and decision making were "protected".

This it is endeavouring to do.

So we are endeavouring to be entrepreneurial and find people who need our expertise.

Rio+20 is endeavouring to become the launch pad for this new development model.

And I think that's what Dr Henkel is endeavouring to address.

"Firefighters will be endeavouring to save any items they can - but no survivals are confirmed".