An educated early Christian, striving to deal with his religion in terms of the only philosophical traditions he knew, would plainly have a lot of work to do.
Two days after the Sri Lankan government rejected a cease-fire offer, separatist rebels went back on the offensive today in an early morning assault, striving to take back the Jaffna peninsula at the northern tip of Sri Lanka.
Fortunately, the American people firmly believe in that middle class earlier generations strived so hard to build for us.
She spoke of people being of "good stock," and she seemed to suggest that after her early mistakes she was striving for higher things.
Mastery experiences result from actually performing the skill; some failure early on followed by striving and success seem to produce the highest levels of self-efficacy.
Inspired by neither the theater nor the movies, as New York and Hollywood's television pioneers were, Chicago's early TV producers strove to maximize the unique properties of their new medium, of necessity televising programs live, often from a warehouse with little scenery.
Early dramatic auditions found her striving for wrenching emotion but inspiring something else.
In these and other early writings we see Bentham striving to emulate in the moral world the great advances made in physical science.
"Buffet's success seems to come from passion for his work, good mentors early in his career, and striving to be the best at one thing -- his consistent knack for identifying undervalued companies to invest in," she said.
