Sentence examples for strived at from inspiring English sources

We strived at every opportunity to make the improvements necessary to prevent the kind of harm inflicted on Baby P by his guardians, and we failed".

This was likely because the rider strived at taking the turn with the longitudinal axis of the horse in a regularly bent position.

But striving for flexibility and balance and striving at work are not mutually exclusive.

But after ten years of striving at party reform, he also looks desperately ineffective.

There are pleasures, if one goes with the flow of Rinder's New Age-ish dewiness and indulges artists who strive, at all costs, to please.

Despite all the loose talk about design and machines, organisms aren't striving to realize some engineer's blueprint; they're striving (if they can be said to strive at all) only to have more offspring than the next fellow.

As the prime minister said in his Bloomberg speech, the idea that members of the EU should strive at every point and on every topic to constantly integrate further is fundamentally misguided.

Maybe the perversity we all feel in the idea of striving at marriage — the reason so few of us do it — stems from a misapprehension of the proper goal.

Still, some of the performers strive at full, unpadded strength; the best of them, unsurprisingly, is Nick Nolte, who brings to Adam Verver — "America's first billionaire," we are informed — a gravity so gruff that you wonder what distant ruthlessness, moral and commercial, may have led to his current, Raphael-savoring finesse.

Companies should strive at every turn to build this unfair advantage to succeed.

These work only because someone else is striving, at great expense, to analyze securities and keep them fairly priced.