Sentence examples for while endeavouring to from inspiring English sources

In the Papal States, Leo pursued a repressive policy while endeavouring to reorganize financial administration, but other governments opposed his foreign policies, thus effecting a political change.

While endeavouring to co-write a sitcom, they found themselves more and more intrigued by the number of websites devoted to television nostalgia - not just for the obvious stuff like Rainbow, but a whole wealth of half-remembered educational programmes which strange individuals had archived.

This means that, while endeavouring to satisfy the business aspirations of my constituents in systems engineering, I also report to the commercial arm of the college.

"We are committed to making a success of the 2011 Census, while endeavouring to cut its costs, currently expected to be around £460 million.

Likewise, the pressure is on Afghan President Hamid Karzai to clean up official corruption, whether in the police or among government officials, and try to build a state which does not drive more Afghans into the arms of the insurgents, while endeavouring to win over some Taliban supporters to the government side.

Colley Cibber wrote in his autobiography that the owners of the United Company, "who had made a monopoly of the stage, and consequently presumed they might impose what conditions they pleased upon their people, did not consider that they were all this while endeavouring to enslave a set of actors whom the public… were inclined to support".

Likewise, they have to keep their face in the public consciousness, while simultaneously endeavouring to preserve a small sense of dignity and mystique.

The Milošević proceedings illustrated the challenge of conducting complex criminal proceedings involving allegations of mass crimes, while still endeavouring to ensure a fair and expeditious trial.

The defendant, however, replied that he had "not the most distant idea of selling his wife, who was, poor creature, at home with her hungry children, while he was endeavouring to earn a bit of bread for them by the strength of his lungs".

Observe Moominmamma endeavouring to climb a rope ladder while hanging on to her handbag.

This involved following the workers while they performed their regular work tasks and endeavouring to capture their trunk and shoulder postures.