Sentence examples for has long strived from inspiring English sources

The sharply rising death toll worsens prospects for an eventual political reconciliation between the ethnic Sinhalese majority and the Tamil minority that has long strived for greater autonomy.

As the pageantry at Westminster Hall showed, the royal family has long strived for excellence in its public choreography, offering totems of continuity and tradition to bolster its claim to tenure.

The modern-day illumination that Phillips has long strived for has perhaps found its finest incarnation to date thanks to Apple's latest technology, and the artist is more than man enough to enjoy that fact.

And to the west lies Europe and the union that Turkey has long strived to join.

Whereas genomics has long strived for completeness within species (e.g., every gene in the species), we were focused on completeness across an evolutionary clade – obviously not every species, but one representative species for everything at some phylogenetic level (e.g., one species per family, and perhaps more than one species when the family is especially large).

The Robert Mondavi Winery, perhaps the best known of all America's fine-wine producers, has long striven for a style that is less obvious and less alcoholic, while continuing to work for complexity, elegance and intensity of flavor.

In Talks On Record China Investment") Not so far off: Yahoo! announced Thursday it would pay $1 billion in cash to acquire a 40% stake in Alibaba, a sure-fire sign of the corporate interest in the second-largest Internet market after the U.S. The Internet giant, led by Chairman and Chief Executive Terry Semel Terry Semel, has long striven for a foothold in the Chinese market.

Facebook has long striven to make its Facebook Messages hub a Hotmail or Gmail competitor.

He heads the membership committee of PEN, has long striven to "give a platform to underrepresented voices," is working with Brooklyn College to bring greater diversity to the ground floor of the publishing complex and has just returned from story exchanges in Israel and Palestine.

While museums have long strived to be welcoming places as well as havens of learning, social media is turning them into virtual community centers.

The Zionist religionists have long strived to give Independence Day a religious meaning, for example, reciting special prayers during the day.