Sentence examples for men striving from inspiring English sources

In paranoid classics such as 1975's "Three Days of the Condor," about a CIA agent who finds his co-workers mysteriously murdered, and 1976's "All the President's Men," about the Watergate coverup, Redford memorably portrayed men striving to get to the bottom of shadowy conspiracies.

His preocuppations included identity and the double; chess masters, hapless college professors, young men striving to fulfil their artistic vocation, and rebels against tyranny.

Men who pursue politics are also pursuing power, Dr. Geary said, and "from an evolutionary perspective the whole goal of men striving for power is to increase their access to sexual opportunities".

Ambitious men striving for a career naturally found it helpful, if not necessary, to become Roman in bearing and conduct and perhaps even in language as well (although speakers of Greek often rose to exalted positions).

The event, presented by Young Concert Artists, included three works by young men striving for effect beyond their years, as well as two pieces by composers in their twilight, recalling youthful pleasures.

Blaming honourably gay men, striving also to be honourably Catholic, draws a dishonest veil over religious formation processes, and allows the psycho-sexually immature to hide in subterfuges of pathological closets, wounding themselves, and the faith community too.

The men strove to be individualistic warriors and boasted of their heroic exploits.

All the president's men strive to recall the bombers to prevent nuclear politics.

In pre-philosophic Greece men strove for immortality by means of the great deed which would be recorded by poets.

I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.

Many of the Army doctors — draftees, like the volunteers — who worked under both men strove to reconcile their military obligations with their medical commitments.