Sentence examples for endeavoring to procure from inspiring English sources

It behooves us, however, to remember also that de Tocqueville warns about the "oppression by which democratic nations are menaced... an innumerable multitude of men, all equal and alike, incessantly endeavoring to procure the petty and paltry pleasures with which they glut their lives".

In democracies, where they are all upon equality; and in aristocracies, where the laws ought to use their utmost endeavors to procure as great an equality as the nature of the government will permit, slavery is contrary to the spirit of the constitution: it only contributes to give a power and luxury to the citizens which they ought not to have.

He is often endeavoring to make things right.

That is what we are endeavoring to do.

The Dutch soon found trade in deerskins and venison in the East Asian market to be a lucrative endeavor, and recruited Plains Aborigines to procure the hides.

Similarly, the sanctions of Title III are aimed only at one who "willfully intercepts, endeavors to intercept, or procures any other person to intercept or endeavor to intercept, any wire or oral communication..

More specifically, the Wiretap Act provides a private right of action against any person who "intentionally intercepts, endeavors to intercept, or procures any other person to intercept or endeavor to intercept, any wire, oral, or electronic communication". 18 U.S.C. § 2511 1)(a); see id. § 2520 (providing a private right of action for violations of § 2511).

I endeavored to answer him.

And I endeavor to be truthful.

We endeavor to celebrate the connections of people to place.

I endeavored to answer as best I could.