Sentence examples for does not strive to from inspiring English sources

This grassy white, from Mattituck on the North Fork, does not strive to make an important statement.

Unlike Buruma and Margalit, Harris does not strive to complement earlier work so much as to extend it to the contemporary political scene.

Mr. Highmore, as skinny and affectless as a '90s alt-rocker — at times he looks uncannily like Thurston Moore of the band Sonic Youth — does not strive to make George too likable.

The dish, a savory tea-soaked fruit cup, with pineapple and raspberries, orange segments and mango, does not strive to the whimsical confections he is better known for, like cheesecake pops and chocolate Brooklyn Bridges (though he could not resist adding a few dried olive chips, just for fun).

Why is it that, just because a thing does not strive to destroy itself, that thing must therefore strive to persevere in being?

The rejection of IIIp6 and an insistence that at least some thing does not strive to persevere in its being, where perseverance in being is understood as a particular end among many possible options, is perfectly consistent with the truth of IIIp4.

To its credit, "Frontrunners" doesn't strive to generate more suspense than the situation merits, which isn't much.

"If a Tree Falls" is a personal story that doesn't strive to be a comprehensive history of the Earth Liberation Front.

But because McEwan expresses himself so mildly, and doesn't strive to be controversial, his pronouncements on the subject have been largely overlooked.

"Poetry of the John Ashbery sort -- it's written for the academy and a few hangers-on -- it doesn't strive to communicate," said Rennie McQuilken, the poet who used to be director of the Sunken Garden festival.

Such efforts at trying to spin and control the online discourse may seem ineffective; after all, what company doesn't strive to alter Wikipedia or influence bloggers' reviews of its products?