Sentence examples for were endeavouring from inspiring English sources

But the company did not account for gamers' sense of humour when planning the feature, and soon found that legions of pranksters were endeavouring to trick players into uttering the words "Xbox Shut Off" – which, if said out loud, caused the user's console to turn off.

The discussion that was being held was very private, and what his colleagues, Lord Birkenhead and the Minister of Labour and Himself, were endeavouring to do on their side was to get an assurance from the trades council that they felt confident that a settlement would be arrived at on the lines of the report.

Such agreements might be politically valuable but were no defense against intellectual anticlericalism, and Pius became increasingly convinced that the real danger to the church lay in the modern secular ideas that the liberal Catholics were endeavouring to incorporate into its doctrines.

A Met Police spokesman todl the news agency that officers were "endeavouring to disperse people from the containment area as quickly as possible", but said they had "been hampered by other protesters who were blocking the exit route towards Trafalgar Square".

At 10 00, Iphigenia reached Sirius and together the ships began firing at French troops ashore, who were endeavouring to raise a gun battery within range of the frigates.

Howe deployed this squadron in defence of Queen, and the two short lines engaged one another at a distance before Villaret abandoned his manoeuvre and hauled off to collect several of his own dismasted ships that were endeavouring to escape British pursuit.

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".