Sentence examples for land striving from inspiring English sources
Golf, the bourgiest of pastimes (a golf course itself is upwardly mobile land, striving to look perfectly groomed and respectable), is used to represent... the bourgiest of pastimes.
The Park Service takes an almost sacred view of the canyon landscape, as if drawing on an imagined Indian conception of the land, striving to protect it from encroaching pressures, noise and commerce brought by nearly five million annual visitors.
Quantifying the value of marginal (and economically inconsequential) habitats such as secondary forest will be essential as land managers strive to maintain species persistence and connectivity in increasingly heterogeneous tropical landscapes.
Guided by organizations like the Westchester Land Trust and the Trust for Public Land, land coalitions are striving to control development.
In addition to strengthening his own lands, Andrew strove to extend his authority over other principalities of Rus.
Joan is a minor architect striving to land the contract to design a memorial for two victims of the 2004 tsunami; her brother Chester hopes, after being injured during a prank reality show, to sue his way into a windfall.
That's unjust for a country that strives to be a land of opportunity for all.
Religion and politics cannot be separated in the Holy Land but the Vatican is striving for balance.
Among the book's epigraphs is a quotation from J. M. Coetzee, a curious choice not only because of Coetzee's enduring literary engagement with South African apartheid but because of its source: a question, in a 2003 interview, about the approach of a white author (a "representative" of colonialism) to the people and lands that colonialism strove to dominate.
He acquired, sold, and exchanged lands, but never strove to build himself a territorial power base or a large armed force of retainers (which proved fatal in the end).
The concept of Circular flow land use management has also been introduced in Europe to promote sustainable land use patterns that strive for compact cities and a reduction of greenfield land take by urban sprawl.
