Sentence examples for we were striving for from inspiring English sources

"We were striving for openness and transparency in national standards," he said.

"It brings us to Game 5, it gets us to a nice little Halladay-Carpenter matchup, and that's what we were striving for".

"They're striving for the same things we were striving for," said Thelma Zucker Goldstein, a 1953 graduate who taught in a public school in the Bronx and in the Army.

My generation's notions of beauty were affected by the photoshopping of already implausibly thin models – we were striving for a kind of beauty that even the models themselves couldn't achieve without digital enhancement.

"You look at a film like this," Mr. Cruise said, "a film that has Steven Spielberg and all the eye-candy he brings to it but also the challenging ideas that this picture has -- and to be able to bring all of those elements together and still have it be a satisfying ride for the audience, well, that's what we were striving for".

We were striving for parsimony in our effort to create an equation that could be effectively used to predict acceptance of evolution and explain the greatest level of variance in acceptance using the fewest number of variables.

"We're striving for perfection," he said.

"Waiting is what we're striving for here".

We're striving for better balance, after all.

"We're striving for that feedback from people," he said.

We want the performance to be better and that is what we are striving for".