It is a depressing picture for a city which has striven to improve its image in recent years. |
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I also believe the public intellectual has a position in the community that has to be fought for, striven for. |
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Yet, for the sake of humanity, universal agreement and adoption of minimum standards in morality and justice must be striven towards. |
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The review group has striven to present this very varied evidence base in a way that will help curriculum planners draw their own conclusions. |
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For years, the landed gentry have striven to keep secret the payments they received from Europe. |
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But anyone who has ever striven to meet their standards knows they do not sacrifice quality for symbolism's sake. |
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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. |
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Large cities and smaller rural communities alike have striven to meet and exceed the ADA's standards. |
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Since then, it has striven to carry out, in partnership with its civil society, the recommendations made to it. |
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He said:The Korean government has all along striven to maintain mature relations with Japan. |
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Though we have striven to uphold these ideas, we've done so covertly and sometimes bashfully. |
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As a young man, he had striven to prove himself physically as a sportsman. |
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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. |
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Estranged from Georgia's erstwhile master, Mr Saakashvili has striven to ingratiate himself with America. |
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If I may, I might add that our government has striven steadfastly to defend the interests of the people of Shannon. |
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We have striven to build a just society that would increasingly reflect the dignity of the human person. |
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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. |
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At EU level, it has striven to develop new approaches to regulation that aim to make it less burdensome for businesses. |
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It has also striven to become a rallying point and a collective tool for all of Greater Montréal's communities. |
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Yet they have striven to address the difficult questions which had to be argued in this novel type of proceeding. |
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These are goals that we have striven to pursue over the ten years of my mandate as Director-General. |
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He broke every rule of political correctitude that they had striven to impose on a nation with an international reputation for calling a spade a shovel. |
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For some interest young people, artisans have striven to diversify colors and embroidering the fez for women. |
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A balance of interests and expertise should be striven for in terms of the composition of each working group. |
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The Kudelski Group has always striven to be present on all continents to limit the impact of a potential local crisis and thus ensure a reasonable level of stability. |
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A pathbreaking advocate of equality jurisprudence, Madam L'Heureux-Dubé has tirelessly and compassionately striven to eradicate discrimination in all its forms. |
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Are we, under the pretext of promoting respect for human rights, creating indicators that will impoverish the very concepts human rights defenders have striven so long and hard to enrich? |
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From the time it acquired national independence and sovereignty, Kazakhstan has unhesitatingly striven for democratic governance, ensuring social partnership and civic understanding and political and inter-ethnic stability. |
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If one wishes to achieve a maximum level of conflict avoidance the uttermost ability to universalise must be asked for, i.e. validity for all must be striven for. |
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Aircrew, ground crew and support personnel have defended the skies of the world and have striven to increase the influence and impact of aviation. |
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Since we desire to maximize our assistance to the Universal Church, we have striven over time to adjust our outreaches to best meet the current needs of our members. |
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The task force has striven to stay out of partisanism and incumbent protection. |
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Ms Fernández has striven to enlist other governments in the region to her niggly campaign likely to intensify if oil is produced in the islands' waters. |
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But whichever way their peace conference eventually ends, both men have striven mightily to persuade their respective publics that they are putting up a grand fight. |
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He has striven to promote enterprise by helping small businesses. |
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Greece has striven to liberalise its economy in the last few years. |
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Therefore, the EU has striven to keep the communication channels with the authorities in Belarus open and offer them incentives to improve relations. |
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As Chairman, I will be available to all member States so as to assist the First Committee in once again making the kind of progress for which it has always striven. |
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The Court has striven for a degree of consistency in the decisions it has rendered on this matter in situations that apply in different jurisdictions in Canada. |
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We have striven to take a flexible and innovative approach to peacemaking. |
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In addition to regularly convening intersessional bodies, Qatar has striven to clarify the modalities for institutionalization, so that the next Conference will be in a position to take decisions on specific proposals. |
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You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. |
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There is nothing I have striven at more than doing my duty, way-warden over Exmoor. |
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I have always striven for the dramatization of the dance, the physicalization of emotions of the soul. |
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During the last two centuries men appear to have striven, with a most uncommendable zeal, all over Christendom, to root out and extirpate every trace of the Gothic. |
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Colonel Walton, who had striven to check the conversation at moments when he became conscious of its tenor, now gladly engaged his guest on other and more legitimate topics. |
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For this reason, states large and small across history have striven to gain access to open waters, even at great expense in wealth, bloodshed, and political capital. |
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These descriptions obviously indulge the pathetic fallacy, a hallmark of traditional nature poetry that ecopoetics has striven to rethink because of its anthropocentrism. |
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The town nestles in a bay which looks over to the hills around Loch Striven, adding a misty splendour to the scene. |
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