Sentence examples for strove harder from inspiring English sources

Some at Annie Wright strove harder for grades than others, but this seemed to be a matter of temperament rather than need.

A1 Mr. Gore, campaigning by riverboat on the Mississippi, said some people strove harder and less successfully than others and that he was seeking to be their champion.

The team lost only two matches during the tour, with Wisden saying, "No travelling team ever strove harder for victory or more completely subordinated all personal considerations to the prime object of winning matches.

Entrepreneurs strove hard but did not yet develop a staple industry.

Auction houses strove hard to increase their part of the cake and only the fittest survived.

For this reason alone, Washington, a decade ago, strove hard to keep Israel on the sidelines as it prepared for Desert Storm.

She strove hard in the face of poverty to provide a formal education for her four daughters and one son, although she herself was uneducated.

("The papers strove hard to portray [her] as an evil temptress … but by 1927, Ruth Snyder was 36 years old, plump, haggard and worn").

Slipped in alongside reproductions of Bacon's art, they at first seem a jarring intrusion – Bacon strove hard to avoid what he called "the trap of illustration".

A peaceful transition will mark the culmination of a process that ordinary Nigerians strove hard to keep honest, and will be remembered by many within the country as an unprecedented, defining push for change.

"We strove hard to identify the noncoding DNA that gave rise to the gene," McLysaght says.