Sentence examples for strives to kill from inspiring English sources

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Living in a series of foster homes, some congenial, others thug-infested, Eire makes attempts at acclimation that amount to reinvention: in Miami, he strives to "kill" "Carlos" (hence the title) and redefine himself as an American named "Charles"; in Bloomington, Illinois, he has "Chuck" written on his high-tops.

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The world's leading internet security experts have been striving to kill Storm, but it is constantly evolving to stay one step ahead.

In a darkly funny passage in "The Descent of Man," Darwin wrote that if humans had the same reproductive biology as bees, "there can hardly be a doubt that our unmarried females would, like the worker bees, think it a sacred duty to kill their brothers, and mothers would strive to kill their fertile daughters".

Having quit music school, Grozni takes vows of celibacy, memorizes texts and strives not to kill the bugs that carry malaria.

He stalks women and strives not to kill or rape ("this was not about sex," he thinks in the midst of one crime) but to induce the perfect coma.

That turns "Richard 3" into not much more than a slayfest, which is largely what Shakespeare provided anyway -- a lot of killing as Richard strives to get the crown.

As the book's grandiose title suggests (along with its three sections, "Fear," "Killing" and "Love" ), "War" strives to offer not just a picture of American fighting men but a discourse on the nature of war itself.

— she strives to post more.

Mr Brown strives to be fair-minded.

She strives to be generous too.

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