Sentence examples for act of striving from inspiring English sources

But for Peter Stein, as for Doctor Faust, the act of striving for deeds is what makes it a story in the first place.

The act of striving for optimal communication (being persistent, not giving up) appeared as important and valuable even if staff eventually had to walk away and come back for a second attempt.

Instead of cutthroat competition, instead of striving to crush ruthlessly every foreign manufacturer and merchant, Mr. Farrell urges that this powerful country, possessing the strength of a giant, should act gently and considerately towards other nations.

That thread of striving, he says, is life.

Here, however, it may be understood in terms of striving.

Indeed Spinoza goes on to define desire at IIIp9 as human striving (or appetite) together with the consciousness of striving.

To this, a follower of Pascal might reply that the act of genuine striving already displays a pureness of heart that God would fully reward; or even that genuine striving in this case is itself a form of believing.

Yet a cabal of well-financed individuals lacking the legislative power to overturn the act has striven to overrule the will of the people and hatched a plot to kill this statute by whatever means necessary.

He also signed the HEARTH Act, which strives to rehouse rapidly those who lost their homes.

Then the urban trio, Gary's only remaining act, strived to stamp their own mark on a cover of Oasis' "Stop Crying Your Heart Out".

"In the wake of corporate scandals, such as those at Enron, and following enactment of laws such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, companies have been striving to demonstrate the reliability of their corporate governance procedures," Kathryn Tyler writes.