Sentence examples for start striving for from inspiring English sources

I am good enough, but maybe it's time I start striving for better?

If we accept the logic of the ancient Greek historian Thucydides, who wrote on rising and declining powers in his own time, the war is unlikely to be started by China striving for power and status, but by the U.S., a relatively declining power gripped by the fear of losing its status and influences.

Perhaps the increasing digitisation of social life is symptomatic of society becoming so post-modern that we are starting to strive for a sociality that is actually more pre-modern and egalitarian – instead of becoming more individual we would rather become more social.

Not a bad start for someone striving for a job which has a lot to do with myths and worshippers as well as music.

Joona Salminen, an expert in early Christian asceticism at Finland's University of Helsinki, said in an interview with VICE that starting in the fourth century, people striving for religious perfection tended to leave the city for the monastery in the desert.

The Buckeyes, striving for a crisper start from coach Urban Meyer's debut in 2012, led 23-0 afthe the first quarter before the Bulls made things interesting.

And Georgia Davies, Chris Walker-Hebborn and Jazz Carlin started to enjoy the sort of success they had been striving for.

If peace is what you're striving for, that's not a very good start.

Mr. Jobs was striving for perfection.

Clearly, striving for nonviolence is serious business.

"We're striving for perfection," he said.