Sentence examples for purposeful striving from inspiring English sources
In a study of 392 university students, Lord and Marino (1993) reported that only 7.1% of the students polled thought that evolution occurred because individuals better fit for the environment had a greater potential to leave a larger number of offspring, while the remainder selected misconceptions such as the purposeful striving toward higher forms (42.4%).
It is purposeful striving towards something.
However, Zhuangzi believed that the key to true happiness was to free oneself from the world and its standards through the Daoist principle of "inaction" (wúwéi 無為), action that is not based on any purposeful striving or motives for gain.
Never arrogant or smug, but pragmatic and purposeful, ever striving to do good.
Yet for all his buzzing endeavour, unbelievable kicking and inspirational defence, Wilkinson could not have matched the spring-heeled Geraghty's contribution to inspire Sunday's match-turning try and he is still striving to rediscover the kind of purposeful creative touches which characterised Flood's performance.
Keep striving higher goals.
Stop striving for perfection.
She waved off most of the attention and strived instead for a purposeful sort of invisibility, spending 28 years nursing at a leper colony in the Belgian Congo and at an Ethiopian hospital.
To maximize profit and thus dividend income -- the purposeful function of business -- companies strive to keep labor input and other costs at a minimum.
