Sentence examples for strenuously sought from inspiring English sources
The phrase "strenuously sought" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has been pursued with great effort or intensity. Example: "The funding for the project was strenuously sought by the research team, as it was crucial for their success."
It would take a susceptible soul to reward the MOMA show with Ensor's strenuously sought response of laughter out loud.
But beyond the dry technical talk of what investment bankers actually do, at trial and in its briefs, Goldman strenuously sought to rebut the Goldman 4 depiction.
Mr. Cuccinelli also accepted gifts from Mr. Williams, and the attorney general has strenuously sought to distance himself from the governor, lest the scandal harm his campaign.
The drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries is regarded by modern audiences as one of the supreme artistic achievements in literary history; in its own day, however, it was viewed by many as a scandal and an outrage a hotly contested and controversial phenomenon that religious and civic authorities strenuously sought to outlaw.
He strenuously sought the endorsement of the Rev. John Hagee, even though Hagee had blamed gays for Hurricane Katrina, referred to the Roman Catholic Church as "the great whore," and theorized that Hitler came about because God's "top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of Israel".
The Justice Department has strenuously sought to avoid making details about stingrays public, and in court filings, it has claimed that its tracking warrant was nothing out of the ordinary.
The one that strenuously seeks to wring high drama out of its story ends up being not very dramatic.
While strenuously seeking to keep secret the memos that permitted the CIA to engage in torture, George W Bush ran for re-election in 2004 as the strong-man savior the country needed to protect itself from another terrorist catastrophe, all while his campaign and its various tendrils belittled and effeminized a Vietnam veteran, John Kerry, much as Trump has ridiculed John McCain.
Ellison is the first Muslim to be elected to the U.S. Congress, and I had asked about his religion, and its bearing on his conception of politics, because I couldn't quite figure out how someone with his background — he came to politics through the roar of student activism: protests, marches, rallies — would be happy in the role he was so strenuously seeking.
The welcome was another slight for Washington, which had sought strenuously to persuade Libya not to permit a hero's welcome for Mr. Megrahi and had opposed his release.
It was after all Hapsburg-Catholic success in the Counter-Reformation that ultimately forced the new Protestant North to come together, that brought conflict to a head and insured the survival of the very cause it sought so strenuously to eradicate.
