Sentence examples for increasingly strove from inspiring English sources

Both started their careers as humorists and, while never shedding that guise, increasingly strove for moral seriousness.

That would in turn suggest that musical complexity itself arose from an arms race in which male musicians increasingly strove to prove their prowess and woo a mate.

Far too many strove to live the life of a hidalgo.

Mr. Erickson also campaigned for buildings that strove to maintain a human scale.

Mr. Zedillo, mindful of that history, strove to make the economy more institutional than individual.

Yet all three strove to unite Duchamp's radicalism with a visual opulence descended from Matisse.

How Eddington, who was wrong, strove against the ideas of Chandrasekhar, who was right.

Mr. Dodd's aides and White House officials all strove to say that he was not pushed to this decision.

Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the park's creators, strove to create this illusion; the reality of Central Park is overwhelmingly artificial.

Pakistan developed a strong military and strove to become a nuclear power, often at the cost of social development.

Johnson, who studied with the Hudson River School master Jasper Francis Cropsey, generally strove to depict accurately what he saw.