Sentence examples for as striving from inspiring English sources

A sympathetic reader of Spinoza might try to resolve the difficulty through an understanding of what it means to strive to persevere in being, under which striving to persevere in being comes to mean just the same thing as striving to do something other than destroy oneself, in particular, striving to maintain a present state.

They think of jihad as striving to perfect oneself, or to give hope to others by good example.

Roosevelt characterized his actions as striving toward a "Square Deal" between capital and labour, and those words became his campaign slogan in the 1904 election.

Most experts, even in Israel, view Iran as striving to become a "threshold country", technically able to produce a nuclear weapon but abstaining from doing so for now.

There is nothing quite so crude and ludicrous as striving to be up to date: "There is a new vocabulary, a new set of tricks, new people concealing old greed with new slogans.

Lawrence saw Cézanne as striving to objectify the "appleyness"—the thing in itself of people, too, yet without much success because, the writer decided, they were beyond his ken.

Success, indeed, was long treated as somehow dubious, as if striving for the top spot betrayed unwholesome ambition.

As much as it strives to create real situations, "Ed" has a surreal side too.

This will help councils learn from each other as they strive to be as good as the best.

But U2 was, as usual, striving for uplift.

I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.