Sentence examples for usually strove from inspiring English sources

Of course, we usually strove to accommodate our financers' ideas and wishes.

"He would occasionally glimpse an inner complexity of her nature that she usually strove to conceal," Johnson tells us, tongue in cheek, adding, "In his limited experience of American women, she was the opposite of them in that respect; they were always wanting to tell you about their natures, their dark anxieties, their troubled pasts".

Walter usually strove for a D. H. Lawrence effect, lounging in doorways, his pelvis outthrust, fingering his black jawline beard, in an effort to make himself interesting to Nelly.

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.

How Eddington, who was wrong, strove against the ideas of Chandrasekhar, who was right.

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

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

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