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How to use striven in a sentence

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It is a depressing picture for a city which has striven to improve its image in recent years.
I also believe the public intellectual has a position in the community that has to be fought for, striven for.
Yet, for the sake of humanity, universal agreement and adoption of minimum standards in morality and justice must be striven towards.
The review group has striven to present this very varied evidence base in a way that will help curriculum planners draw their own conclusions.
For years, the landed gentry have striven to keep secret the payments they received from Europe.
But anyone who has ever striven to meet their standards knows they do not sacrifice quality for symbolism's sake.
Since its founding, AFNIC has striven to change and adapt its organization to the greatest possible extent to fit the needs of the years to come.
Large cities and smaller rural communities alike have striven to meet and exceed the ADA's standards.
Since then, it has striven to carry out, in partnership with its civil society, the recommendations made to it.
He said:The Korean government has all along striven to maintain mature relations with Japan.
Though we have striven to uphold these ideas, we've done so covertly and sometimes bashfully.
As a young man, he had striven to prove himself physically as a sportsman.
The Sligo Rape Crisis Centre know this better than most and have striven to provide a sensitive and accommodating service to those who have suffered rape or sexual abuse.
Estranged from Georgia's erstwhile master, Mr Saakashvili has striven to ingratiate himself with America.
If I may, I might add that our government has striven steadfastly to defend the interests of the people of Shannon.
We have striven to build a just society that would increasingly reflect the dignity of the human person.
Many of us may not be happy when that date is, but we have striven to reach a consensus, and we will continue to do so.
At EU level, it has striven to develop new approaches to regulation that aim to make it less burdensome for businesses.
It has also striven to become a rallying point and a collective tool for all of Greater Montréal's communities.
Yet they have striven to address the difficult questions which had to be argued in this novel type of proceeding.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Since then, he had striven to obtain another interview with his bride, but she had refused him.
It was the law that had worked the ruin of her life, which she had striven to make wholesome.
It is the cardinal sin against which the Society of Friends have always striven.
The playwright has striven to transfer from the field to the stage a cotton-picking scene and has made a travesty of it.
The Genoese had striven long and hard to denationalize the Corsican people by the introduction of foreign and hostile elements.
She had bravely striven to keep her fairyhood, and in the battle of wits, had lost.
But in everything he had striven to gratify her, and had been altogether successful.
They strove again, as they had striven before, to win the King's favour by maligning him.
They had striven, all the previous day, to rescue Barnaby from his impending fate.
I have striven to forget that I was ever afflicted in being the parent of such a child.
She had striven to aid and abet this distinguished and worthy gentleman in his suit.
The Bengalee has striven hard to carry into other Provinces also his spirit of antagonism to the State.
He had striven to the point when further strife became a crime.
In Spanish America he had striven to accumulate that wealth in vain.
That is, the capitalists had striven to placate the workers by interesting them financially in their work.
I will confess to you what I have striven in vain to disguise.
Edwardes had striven for five consecutive years to be allowed to recite a piece of his own composition on Gloucester Memorial Day.
What had been so basely striven for was sorrily won at last.
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