Sentence examples for Had strove from inspiring English sources

He reminded the professor that "most of the world's renowned were men who, when comparatively young men, by one significant stroke made themselves peers of men who had strove slowly and painfully to their positions".

"The arrival of a music director of extraordinary international caliber puts the orchestra on the international map in a way it has always strove for," Mr. Woods continued.

Cameron is not like that and this speech, more than any other he has given, strove to put heart into the modern Tory message.

Today, this kind of loyalty between a company and its employees is viewed as almost old-fashioned — but I was always proud to work for a company that I felt had high ethical standards, strove to be at the forefront of technology and treated shareholders, customers and employees fairly and with respect.

Nadia Marin-Molina, the executive director of the Workplace Project in Hempstead, a support organization for Latino laborers, said she had helped set up a landscaping cooperative that strove to pay its workers $12 an hour, a high wage for day laborers anywhere on Long Island.

Over the next several, months Robinson & Howard Clark, Jr.who was Cohen's successor & American Express spokespeople strove to lay the excesses & failed judgments that had bedevilled Shearson at Cohen's door.

The young Iranian artists, architects, radio and television producers I was meeting had been trained in Europe, the States and the Soviet Union, but invariably strove for aesthetic synthesis with Persia's rich and unique cultural traditions.

After the disruptions of World War II, Adi and his brother Rudolf ("Rudi") strove to rebuild the Dassler firm, but a personal breach between the brothers had become irreparable by 1948.

I might have seen a Channel 4 Dispatches programme earlier this year that strove - rather sweatily, I thought - to convince us that Labour Party and the borough was being infiltrated by secretive Muslim extremists in the form of the Islamic Forum of Europe, the group that Abbas said in his statement that he believed had "brainwashed" Rahman.

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