Sentence examples for to strive to assert from inspiring English sources

Feuerbach regards sensation as the "first condition of willing" (M, 366), since without sensation there is no pain or need or sense of lack against which for the will to strive to assert itself.

EU authorities have been striving to assert themselves on tax, ever since the European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, was exposed by the Luxembourg files during his first weeks in Brussels.

The crossover territory between classical, jazz and pop has remained largely uninhabited since the era when prog-rockers strove to assert their musical chops with ill-advised symphonic works and temporary alliances with classical musicians who sometimes – as Frank Zappa learnt to his dismay – regarded the commission with a disrespect bordering on contempt.

Uzbekistan is central Asia's most populous state and strives to assert itself as a regional power.

Once his foot is in the door of government, with the cheers of the people and the backing of foreign governments and aid agencies, he would strive to build and then assert his authority.

Strongly influenced by Price, whom she had met at Newington Green just a few years earlier, Wollstonecraft asserts that people should strive to imitate God by practicing universal benevolence.

To the grief of all grave dramatic critics, I will still assert that the perfect drama must strive to rise to the higher ecstasy of the peepshow".

They assert that this does not mean that historically, when life expectancy was much shorter, people did not strive to prolong their life.

We strive to get better".

"Strive to underpromise and overdeliver".

CENTRAL bankers ordinarily strive to be boring.