Sentence examples for strove to bridge from inspiring English sources

Hesychast spirituality strove to bridge the gulf between human and divine existence.

I am saddened, but not surprised, that the forces that strive to keep us divided have silenced a vital dialogue in a Synagogue in West Hampton, N.Y., in which Rev. Al Sharpton and Rabbi Marc Schneier of the Foundation For Ethnic Understanding strove to bridge a deeply troubled part in America's past: the Crown Heights Riots of 1991.

Far too many strove to live the life of a hidalgo.

Mr. Erickson also campaigned for buildings that strove to maintain a human scale.

Mr. Zedillo, mindful of that history, strove to make the economy more institutional than individual.

Yet all three strove to unite Duchamp's radicalism with a visual opulence descended from Matisse.

Mr. Dodd's aides and White House officials all strove to say that he was not pushed to this decision.

Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the park's creators, strove to create this illusion; the reality of Central Park is overwhelmingly artificial.

Pakistan developed a strong military and strove to become a nuclear power, often at the cost of social development.

Johnson, who studied with the Hudson River School master Jasper Francis Cropsey, generally strove to depict accurately what he saw.

During the Soviet period Kyrgyz poets strove to adjust their writings to communist ideology and the tenets of Socialist Realism.