Sentence examples for strives in from inspiring English sources

Mr. Jordan is chairman of the Republican Study Committee, which strives in part to promote the conservative economic agenda in the House.

In celebrating the marvels of the little rugged world that is Connemara Robinson strives, in John Updike's lovely formulation, to "give the ordinary its beautiful due".

Lucinda strives in her reports -- and in her life -- to make the people of Prairie City fit the fantasy, and they resist.

I hope Fukuyama, who is evidently on a campaign to reform the movement and send it in a new direction, learns to refrain from this old shibboleth as he strives in his new direction.

Having always been what she calls "a Mimesis woman", someone who strives in her writing for the closest proximation to the thing itself, Drabble finds herself in old age (she will turn 70 this year) increasingly drawn to the fragmented, the glancing, the mannered and the theoretic.

"You're both very good at skinning rabbits," Bran announces, sounding like a preschool teacher as he strives in vain to make peace between Osha and Meera Reed.

That encourages me more, having someone striving in the house.

Wanting to prove herself a "superior girl," McCarthy strove in her formative years for intellectual distinction.

Countless bloggers write about striving — in vain, most discover — to eradicate plastic from their lives.

Speakers strive in vain to rouse the masses some drunk, many seemingly paid to attend.

Or does it lead to endless striving in search of some ever-elusive achievement?