They nonetheless strove for a classy image: instead of a barker outside, they featured a violinist inside.
The work argued that despite China's authoritarian reputation, its bureaucracy strove for internal consensus on major decisions.
Cox, whose own memoirs 30 years later would be called See It Happen, strove for such immediacy.
"The arrival of a music director of extraordinary international caliber puts the orchestra on the international map in a way it has always strove for," Mr. Woods continued.
Two high-strung dramas set in the Supreme Court, one starring Sally Field and the other James Garner, that strove for moral urgency were quickly canceled.
In the spirit of the Venice Biennale or the Whitney Biennial, the festival strove for dizzying diversity, presenting some fifty modern works — most of them previously unheard or less than a decade old.
The young Iranian artists, architects, radio and television producers I was meeting had been trained in Europe, the States and the Soviet Union, but invariably strove for aesthetic synthesis with Persia's rich and unique cultural traditions.
However, he was also active in the Chartist movement, a British working-class parliamentary reform movement that strove for universal manhood suffrage, vote by ballot, annually elected Parliaments, and other demands.
One day the people of Britain too would take their future into their own hands and build the lasting memorial to Karl Marx that he himself so passionately strove for throughout his life in Britain.
Where the standards of the 30's strove for sophisticated romantic metaphors, those of the 40's were humbler, more direct expressions of faith in romantic love to hold during a time of hardship and separation.
