Sentence examples for place of striving from inspiring English sources

In place of striving to transform the world, he speaks of mésure—"measure", in the sense of proportion or harmony and of living in the tension of the human condition.

The habit of striving for first place is either ridiculous or unfortunate for the individual in whom it has been inculcated.

By the time Bush and Dean got to Yale, a new class of striving meritocrats was starting to dominate the place.

But for Peter Stein, as for Doctor Faust, the act of striving for deeds is what makes it a story in the first place.

Centuries of striving realized.

Lack of striving.

Rather than a simple equilibrium of coexistence, might peace, or shalom, be a place to strive for?

Alessi Pizzeria, the 6-week-old offspring of Alessi restaurant next door, is an authentically Italian place slavishly striving to be American.

Do yourself a favour, look the other way... Through the cold, hunger and sorrow of this place we strive to do what we believe is right.

But as shortcomings came into focus during the World Series, so, too, did a profile of the place it strives to become -- a nationally recognized city with a reputation as an exciting place to live and work, not just visit.

While our ethnic and cultural quarters solidify and thrive outside the borough -- in Flushing, Astoria, the new bohemias of Dumbo, Williamsburg and Long Island City, and along Atlantic Avenue -- Manhattan becomes a place of privilege, inhospitible to striving, less and less like New York.