What's the difference between endeavor and strife?

Endeavor


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt.
  • (v. i.) To exert one's self; to work for a certain end.
  • (n.) An exertion of physical or intellectual strength toward the attainment of an object; a systematic or continuous attempt; an effort; a trial.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The practice of community nursing was heavily emphasized, and it was endeavored to strike a balance between hospital experience and work in communities themselves.
  • (2) In 240 cases of genital ulcer disease among mineworkers in Carletonville, South Africa, this study endeavored to correlate the clinical diagnosis with laboratory findings.
  • (3) The present study investigated and endeavored to quantify the psychological, sexual, and social adjustment reactions to a mastectomy, the possible interaction of these reactions, and the role of environmental support in mediating these responses.
  • (4) Understanding the nature and mechanisms of the CNS transduction of peripheral thermal stimuli to efferent command signals for driving thermoregulatory motor outputs will be a challenging endeavor in the future.
  • (5) This substantial goal probably will be achieved through the completion of smaller endeavors.
  • (6) The findings reveal that through feminist endeavors, and women physicians as nurse educators, the New England Hospital for Women and Children emerged as a leader in training nurses.
  • (7) Observational instruments have been used in forensic science, medical, and social situations in an endeavor to measure alcohol intoxication.
  • (8) Bold and imaginative plans by the medical library community are essential to the full success of the endeavor.
  • (9) While experience is being gained, each party must endeavor to understand what the technique is able to determine and what it cannot determine.
  • (10) The investigators endeavored to determine whether (a) depressed adolescents would perform as well as normals on the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency and (b) whether the method of diagnosing major depressive episode (MDE), using DSM-III criteria or the Dexamethasone Suppression Test, was related to motor proficiency.
  • (11) Modern forecasting techniques and criteria to evaluate prognostic endeavors are described.
  • (12) Systems like this permit compilation of data, statistical analysis, and the possibility of intercommunication with other microcomputers and mainframe systems in collaborative research endeavors.
  • (13) Because of the increasing number of patients and the variety of prostheses and fixation modalities available to the surgeon, the evaluation of the patient with a painful arthroplasty has become an increasingly complex endeavor.
  • (14) The collecting of human remains for study in museums and medical schools has been a vital scientific endeavor for many years.
  • (15) It is predicted that future endeavors will use this relationship to diagnose and treat specific diseases that have at their basis neuroendocrine and immunologic imbalances.
  • (16) The library profession must earn a central place in this endeavor, and must address a number of important issues.
  • (17) In the words of Samuel D. Gross: "The cases which may reasonably require and those which may not require interference with the knife are not always so clearly and distinctly defined as not to give rise, in very many instances, to the most serious apprehension ... that, while the surgeon endeavors to avoid Scylla, he may not unwittingly run into Charybdis, mutilating a limb that might have been saved, and endangering life by the retention of one that should have been promptly amputated."
  • (18) In addition, closer links with nearby educational institutions or affiliated hospitals are being pursued to support and maintain our ongoing marketing endeavors.
  • (19) This is not the first time a federal agency has endeavored to track the number of police killings in the US.
  • (20) This endeavor will be fostered by the further development and refinement of non-invasive roentgenographic techniques.

Strife


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of striving; earnest endeavor.
  • (n.) Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts.
  • (n.) Altercation; violent contention; fight; battle.
  • (n.) That which is contended against; occasion of contest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian A journey that started five years ago with a promise to bring Labour together – to avoid the civil strife that traditionally followed election defeat – risks ending where it began: contemplating electoral wilderness.
  • (2) Almost three years after US troops withdrew from Iraq and 11 years after their invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, the war on Islamic State is drawing Washington back into the middle of Iraq’s power struggles and bloody sectarian strife.
  • (3) Overall, the couples who successfully completed therapy were in less strifeful marriages and were confronted with specific life change events as opposed to the couples who dropped out, who gave evidence of chronic marital difficulties.
  • (4) Economic openness is the glue that binds the EU together and it is the solution to the crisis of European competitiveness that long predates the current strife.
  • (5) Many blamed that failure for the industrial strife which dogged the Wilson and Callaghan governments over the following decade.
  • (6) On the biggest question of our time – Britain’s membership of the European Union, internal strife has left the government without a clear position, as party interest trumps national interest.
  • (7) The majority of these children come from Guatemala , Honduras and El Salvador – three of the many countries ravaged by civil strife, drug wars and economic turmoil precipitated by US political and military intervention over several decades, as well as free-trade regimes and the corporate plunder of Latin America's natural resources.
  • (8) Organised crime has taken hold and human trafficking has flourished thanks to arranged marriages, giving rise to more family strife.
  • (9) Sam Akaki Democratic Institutions for Poverty Reduction in Africa • There are calls for the EU to act to save migrants from drowning in the Mediterranean, but where are the calls for the UN to tackle the strife and oppression in South Sudan, Eritrea, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan … which are the root cause of this problem?
  • (10) After an extraordinary year, experts say the site now faces a series of challenges – not least the problem of how to keep getting bigger in the face of government interventions and its own internal strife.
  • (11) Current western complacency and silence will only bring more chaos and strife.
  • (12) Their first season in the Premier League has seen further off-field strife with the sacking as head of recruitment of Iain Moody , who was replaced by a friend of Tan's son who has no football background.
  • (13) Yet to black Americans who are all too familiar with the burdens of segregation and the struggle for equality, this idyllic image of a gentle country without racial strife sounds like absurd propaganda.
  • (14) Sunday's poll brought months of strife to a bloody climax, with 19 people reported killed in unrest across the country .
  • (15) Libya’s spiral into chaos is a story of international neglect as well as of domestic strife.
  • (16) Then the total trends of the suicide rate were reexamined in comparison with a control group, and the recent trends after the student strife (1970) were confirmed in comparison with the 15-year period before the strife.
  • (17) Her case that the state had become too dominant and that trade union power needed to be curbed seemed plausible given the industrial strife of the winter of discontent.
  • (18) The expectation that care will be provided to old people by their daughters or daughters-in-law may be frustrated if the younger generation of women are disabled or otherwise engaged, resulting in possible family strife or rejection.
  • (19) Decades of ethnic strife in India's north-east have forced hundreds of thousands of young people to move out of the region in search of education and employment.
  • (20) I’m not consciously melancholic – in fact, I am often the opposite – so that melancholy feel must come from the way I use chords.” Stolen Recordings William Doyle, aka East India Youth, on Total Strife Forever (Stolen Recordings) “ Total Strife Forever was a really important step for me personally.