They strove toward riches or social position.
But in choosing to raise only me, they strove toward their own utopia through pragmatism.
Toyota executives have said they lost their focus on quality as they strove for market share.
Nonetheless, they strove to preserve their ethnic and cultural distinctiveness and resisted integration into Greater Romanian society.
England were now in the ascendancy, as they strove to save their reputations and their coach's job.
"Carnal knowledge" evokes missionaries shocked by bare breasts as they strove to bring decency to the wayward children of empire.
The dancers flew around them in a wider circle, their bodies bucking and staggering as they strove for release.
They strove to make the religious events depicted in their paintings seem realistic, causing viewers to feel as if they were participants.
They strove to incorporate the structural complexities, lyrical sophistication, and elastic chord changes of those classic songs into their rock-and-roll songwriting.
When students were asked what qualities they strove to embody, 29.9 percent said confidence, 27.1 percent said friendliness and 26.6 percent said intelligence (kindness and open-mindedness followed).
Steady rain on Thursday did little to dampen the sheer forcefulness of two artists as they strove to get their messages across at Lincoln Center Out of Doors.
