Sentence examples for striving first from inspiring English sources

They're usually striving first novels or memoirs, each author, with a book, sending out a sympathetic existential flare: I was here!

In a world where mobile access dominates, the networks and servers become more significant, suggesting we should be striving first to reduce the energy used by these components.

Tristan Brodsky — named not for Wagner's opera, we're told, but for a brand of sweaters his father peddled from a pushcart — is a member of the striving first generation of children of New York Jewish immigrants.

Learn as you go, understanding key terms, determining which control charts to use, and striving first to get processes under control — your confidence will grow, as will your ability to manage your team!

Both parents were striving, first-generation Italian-Americans.

For most women (as Mr. Brokaw notes) and for striving first-generation college students, like myself, there are no guarantees or second chances.

With ferocious intensity, Rachel strove first for accomplishments, then merely connections, and, finally, just status, and she made no lasting friends along the way.

She was a true matriarch of her extended family and strove first and foremost to protect them, while also insisting they perform to the best of their abilities.

To be that best version of oneself is to strive first for peace within so that our actions are determined by our inner calm.

Strive first to listen" and called on the parents of LGBT people to "Urge [their] son or daughter to stay joined to the Catholic faith community".

We would now say that a balanced, egalitarian relationship is one that strives first to understand your partner, and then to act with your partner's best interest in mind.