Sentence examples for strive only from inspiring English sources

I don't require that my comedy strive only to make me laugh, and nothing else.

To strive and strive, only for the country to fall into a different, meaner, poorer future?

No, those are merely inferior products that strive only to entertain people and fail at that mission.

What he meant was that articles that strive only to be in the middle — moving from one hand to the other in an effort to be nicely balanced — end up going nowhere.

A business that is accountable to all is in effect accountable to no one, says Ms Bernstein.She does not take the absolutist view that companies should strive only to maximise profits while obeying the rules.

I remember a television programme in which someone said that, in contrast to many classical singers who strive only to use the most beautiful part of the voice, the "filet", Björk was prepared to use "the whole animal".

The site strives only to annotate lyrics that would not be obvious to the casual listener.

He sees no evidence that the Soviets either have or desire nuclear superiority, believing rather that they are striving only for statistical equivalence.

His stubborn genius also represents, in its 70 years of continuous artistic creation, the prototype of the single-minded artist, striving only to complete a given task.

He answered that his movement had no leader, that he knew nothing of its financing and that it strived only for a better future for Serbia.

The portrait that emerges from Mr. Heiferman's catalog essay, based partly on conversations with Mr. Wood's two daughters, is of a hard-working businessman, joiner of clubs and family man who strove only to satisfy his costumers' needs.