Sentence examples for were working to break from inspiring English sources

"You get this winning streak and these guys were working to break a losing streak.

Stocks were working to break into positive territory as the Dow was up 15 points, or 0.15, to 11,341.

He said the Immigration Act 2014 prevents them receiving benefits, housing, bank accounts and driving licences and European countries were working to break up criminal gangs involved in people trafficking.

Every day, China and other foreign governments, hackers and criminals are working to break into American computer networks.

Early in the story, Comey narrates his career in the New York U.S. Attorney's Office that was working to break up La Cosa Nostra.

In the year and two months since she succeeded John Elderfield in the job, Ms. Temkin, 49, has been working to break with the past herself — most surprisingly, perhaps, in her approach to the so-called permanent collection.

Wright is championing an international effort, known by the hashtag #StandWithCongo, which is working to break a cycle of internal conflict and foreign wars that has cost more than five million lives.

She hails from the south-western Ugandan district of Kabale but, like many young Ugandans looking out for education and work opportunities, has been living in Kampala for the last 10 years where she has been working to break into the local comedy scene.

The British government's report on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction makes an explicit and extensive case that Saddam Hussein has been working to break through barriers that have constrained him from rebuilding his military and the deadly weaponry that he possessed a decade ago.

In addition, we are working to break down barriers and open overseas markets so our companies can better compete globally, creating jobs in America by exporting our products around the world.

So we are working to break down barriers to trade and investment wherever we can.