Sentence examples for endeavoured less from inspiring English sources

The diversion of Virgil and Horace toward themes of public interest may be ascribed to him, and he endeavoured less successfully to do the same thing with Sextus Propertius.

Our monuments are lesser, our public endeavour less ambitious.

Fat activism – which started in the 1960s as a call for equal rights and less discrimination – has endeavoured to replace societal shame with pride.

Much less documentary evidence was available to corroborate these data, although country teams endeavoured to triangulate interview data to boost the validity of findings.

The staunch Calvinists endeavoured to hold the Reformed Church to the strict orthodoxy expounded by Franciscus Gomarus, a Leiden professor of theology, against the broader, less rigorous tenets upheld by his colleague Jacobus Arminius.

Some endeavoured to sound cheery.

Coyle endeavoured to be philosophical.

We have never endeavoured to break hearts.

That has limited the endeavour to waters less than 50 metres deep, excluding 98% of the sea floor from inspection.

The attitude that had been hostile toward intellectual endeavours was heard less frequently after the Christian church had become the church of the Roman Empire.

Rather, she says, the focus must be on building social structures which support people in their endeavours to waste less food.