Sentence examples for but striving from inspiring English sources

But striving for flexibility and balance and striving at work are not mutually exclusive.

Not the democratic Asian tiger Americans think of today, but a poor, war-torn, autocratic, but striving country.

Striving for physical and intellectual excellence, perfection, even though it's not possible — but striving for it — is a worthy endeavor.

Half-Chinese, but striving to be whole Chinese, she was as full of contradictions as her motherland.

It's not a generational anthem to eclipse "Won't Get Fooled Again," or "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere," but striving gives the Who reason enough to persist.

Possibly that's because most mass-market Champagnes tend to converge, differing in terms of body and texture but striving essentially for a middle ground of flavor.

Ladies' costumes followed the dress of the period more closely but strove for a looseness and for the transparency of fabric typical of Classical dress.

"We are not against development, but strive for proper and balanced development that is realistic for the city," Mr. Moriarty said.

So people rewarded their closest friends when they could get away with it, but strived to appear fair when under public scrutiny.

When museum staffs take apart an assembled object, treatment and display decisions inherently privilege certain moments in that object's history but strive to acknowledge how the object has changed.

All three are economically lower middle class, but upwardly striving.