Unfortunately though, striving for equality and getting women into high ranking, high paying positions runs no deeper than a pledge on a piece of paper.
Both lyrically and musically, Placebo strove for genius, and though striving is often enough to make a good band, sometimes Placebo actually came within spitting distance of its goal.
Mostly, though, Mr. Glass strives for reverential understatement, as in the epilogue, in which Mrs. Grant leads a chorus of women singing a doleful lament on the tragedy of war, complete with "da-da" refrains and murky orchestral doodling.
In recent years, though, many insurers, striving to persuade doctors to join their health networks, held back on any further cuts and maintained fairly attractive fees and generous terms for doctors and hospitals.
Stassen, though, was striving mightily in multiple states and had scored an upset in Wisconsin, where Dewey finished third, behind the improbable candidacy of General Douglas MacArthur, who never left Japan, where he was the American proconsul.
You do push yourself though, always striving for that next opal.
On Tuesday, though, Thorpe was striving for a controversy-free day.
Though she is striving for what she thinks is classical purity, Ms. Streisand's singing is pale and faceless.
Samson has told tenants not to expect to return before August or September, though they are striving to make it before then.
But even though Francis is striving to expand his church's appeal to broader constituencies around the world, he seems bent on turning away from Catholic aspirations to dominion.
They have ousted BlackBerry from third place, but that is not saying much.Next to Microsoft at the apex, Intel has also done poorly in smartphones and tablets, though it is striving to catch up and in June unveiled a new chip that it hopes will bring new zip to PCs.
