Sentence examples for had been striving from inspiring English sources

Indeed, in a sense it was something he had been striving for his entire adult life.

Some equipment-makers had been striving for market power in other ways.

He had been striving for a classic soul sound, with little success.

The gentry and wealthy merchants were the sponsors of constitutionalism; they had been striving to gain the rights held by foreigners.

"But I think we are far from that," said Mr. Biden, who added that the Obama administration had been striving for a political breakthrough.

At Ragú and Prego, they had been striving for the platonic spaghetti sauce.… Cooking, on the industrial level, was consumed with the search for human universals.

McCutcheon has been striving ever since she was tiny.

We've been striving to do a better job.

This infuriates the treaty's supporters, who have been striving to make it "universal".

Meanwhile, they have been striving to block or delay multilateral transparency initiatives.

At least then he would have been striving for the climb.