Sentence examples similar to idle striving from inspiring English sources
Not content with an idle governorship, Caesar strove to find reason to invade Gaul, which would give him the dramatic military success he sought.
In light of this, he insisted that he was "following tradition as well as necessity" by striving to use government "to put idle money and idle men to work, to increase our public wealth and to build up the health and strength of the people -- to help our system of private enterprise to function again".
At Loch Striven, Maersk has six ships idle; it expects them to remain there another year.
Pass and liquor raids became regular features of township life, as police strove to root out those who were "idle," "disorderly," or simply superfluous to the white economy.
It is, in short, a prize worth striving for.Mr Chirac's government has not sat wholly idle in the face of these challenges.
The state-supported system had removed the incentives to entrepreneurship without which the capitalist economy cannot function, he declares — "the carrot of serious money for those who strive, the stick of hardship for those who are idle".
The town is striving to make the venture succeed: offering cheap office space and allowing use of its idle port and tugboats.
From Loch Striven in Scotland to the Strait of Malacca in Southeast Asia, more than a tenth of the vessels that transport the world's manufactured goods in containers are idle.
