Sentence examples for strive earnestly from inspiring English sources

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Or they strive earnestly to go straight, only to find that, with three days work a month the norm for a union member, all the money on the docks is in crime, petty and otherwise.

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The former Aztec capital was already a major metropolis when the Spaniards took over, and they strove earnestly to compete with the institutions of the vanquished, particularly in religion but also in theatre, poetry, and all forms of oral literature.

It is in the rapidly developing ability to communicate ideas and frustration in chat rooms instead of on the streets, and to channel them into nationwide projects striving earnestly for moderate and peaceful change.

The government will "continue striving earnestly for national reconsolidation in true cooperation with the U.N. Secretariat," said the newspaper, which is closely read by diplomats and analysts seeking hints to the secretive government's intentions.

He clearly sets great store by his project's feelgood qualities but, at the appropriate times, strives earnestly for Dickensian darkness and Calcutta-on-the-Thames streetscapes, with one very hilarious undertakers' shop-sign: a mini-coffin with lots of tiny dead babies.

In striving so earnestly for a redemptive and genuinely heroic happy ending, Stiller's movie jettisons the original's lightness.

They jump up, smiling, to wish me peace, hurry to bring tea and carry my bags – earnestly striving to live up to the Islamic virtue of hospitality.

For those who do not, Peggy is the peppy protofeminist of the show, promoted from secretary to become the lone female copywriter at the advertising agency, earnestly striving for sisterhood amid the innuendos.

The irony is that if the Academy really wanted a lesson in love, or a plea for cross-cultural harmony — the stuff of Oscar triumph, and everything for which "Gandhi" had so earnestly striven — then it was right there, under the noses of the voters.

Life expectancy is very crucial to the developing worlds who are earnestly striving for achieving socio-economic progress through investing significantly in social sectors like health, education, sanitation, environmental management and sustainability, and social safety nets [5].

Tragic straight, thin-skinned straight, a world of straights in every sense, earnestly and conventionally striving to achieve bohemian euphoria via some classroom qualification?

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