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Endeavoring
noun
The act by which one endeavors or strives; an attempt.
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I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and in endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
An elderly gentleman from Maine, endeavoring to pilot an elederly car across Central Park last Friday, entered the Park by one of those roads that start out as if they were going to cross it and then bend off and don't.
Most people here have believed for some time that he could relieve a great deal of tension over school integration by endeavoring to lead public opinion... ("I think it makes no difference whether or not I endorse it,) he once said of the Supreme Court decision of 1954.
He spent years endeavoring to write his own autobiographical novel, laboring over the sentences until the exertion seemed hopeless.
Her mother being much smaller of frame, Patty felt somewhat like a grandfather clock that Joyce was endeavoring to lift and move.
In Part 2, the post-Atticus Finchlike voice the author adopts works in her favor as she aims to find justice for the Hemingses and to do justice by them by endeavoring to reconstruct their everyday life abroad and in Jefferson's fashionable house on the Champs-Elysées.
His famously unbuttoned staffers have been persuaded to wear business attire when interacting with the public, and the entrances to his campaign events are monitored by serious-looking young people with clipboards, endeavoring to make sure that no one gets in to see the candidate without surrendering his or her name and e-mail address.
An attache of a broadcasting studio was endeavoring by spirited conversation to keep a pianist, who was to go on the air shortly, from becoming nervous.
I am, this morning, endeavoring to persuade you to join me in my deluded world; it is a happy, irrational, rich world, full of fairies and ghosts and free electricity and dragons, and a world beyond all others fun to walk around in.
An elderly gentleman from Maine, endeavoring to pilot an elederly car across Central Park last Friday, entered the Park by one of those roads that… Two little career girls fell to talking about literature.
The hypercivilized, unimaginably savage Aztecs made war almost tenderly, wielding wooden swords that were edged with bits of obsidian or flint and, in face-to-face combat, endeavoring not to kill their enemies but, commonly by striking at their legs, to disable and capture them.
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