(v. i.) To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.
(v. i.) To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest; -- followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth.
(v. i.) To vie; to compete; to be a rival.
(n.) An effort; a striving.
(n.) Strife; contention.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is stated, that it is impossible to strive to effectively control the smoking habit neither by way of the consulting hours for smokers nor by means of the 5-days-plans.
(2) "I am doing the best for my child, helping her strive towards her dreams.
(3) Clare Gills, an American journalist and friend of Foley, wrote in 2013: “He is always striving to get to the next place, to get closer to what is really happening, and to understand what moves the people he’s speaking with.
(4) Day by day we strive to unmask all the lies told to citizens.
(5) Refusing either to acquiesce in, or to rail at, Eliot's contempt for Jews, one strives to do justice to the many injustices Eliot does to Jews.
(6) We have strived to take a systemic approach to the study of the structure, function, and regulation of adenosine receptors and the transmembrane signalling processes that they activate.
(7) The question of German leadership, however, gets mixed up with a second, yet different question: Does all of this also mean that Berlin strives for a "German Europe"?
(8) A leading academic, Prof Robert Bea, from the engineering faculty at the University of California in Berkeley, who made a special study of the Deepwater Horizon accident , has raised new concerns that the recent slump in oil prices could compromise safety across the industry as oil producers strive to cut costs.
(9) The mental health professional can strive to influence future public policy as patient advocate and nonpartisan educator.
(10) By participation we mean one's identification of his ego with a person(s), an object, or a symbolic construct outside himself, and his striving to lose his separate identity by fusion with this other object or symbol.
(11) Six lessons emerge from our analysis: Expect reform models to change over time; strive for predictability and continuity in the reform; encourage behavior changes through the use of incentives; use special administrative or political channels to simplify the reform; expect reform models to converge over time; and implementation difficulties can be predicted.
(12) Increasing positive motivation to treatment: striving to alleviate pain caused by decayed tooth, realization of aims not related to health, cultural aspects.
(13) A variation of this model was tested in a study of the separate as well as interactive effects of daily life events and personal strivings on psychological and physical well-being.
(14) Achieving a natural inframammary fold in the reconstructed breast is a challenging but essential aspect of the excellent result for which we strive.
(15) Justin Welby said that it was “a tragedy” that hunger still existed in the UK in the 21st century and praised the work of charity food banks which he said were “striving to make life bearable for people who are going hungry”.
(16) Correlations were determined for male (n = 225) and female (n = 242) college students between sets of undesirable personality traits (anxiety, stress reactivity, anger, and alienation) and desirable personality traits (instrumentality, achievement strivings, and optimism measured by the Scheier-Carver [1987] Life Orientation Test), and a series of outcome variables related to health (self-reported health complaints and health maintenance behaviors and beliefs) and academic performance (academic expectations and actual grade point average).
(17) Clegg echoed the sentiment as he insisted the government would constantly strive to do more to promote growth, as well as reducing debt, but warned that voters should not expect quick results.
(18) Thanks to this the barorecptors of the aortic arch strive to maintain a high level of the arterial pressure and provide for a stabilization of hypertension.
(19) The physician, however, should constantly strive to improve the quality of life that will result from the means put at his disposal.
(20) PROBLEMS ARISE WHEN MORPHOLOGIC TERMINOLOGY FALLS INTO CATEGORIES WHICH: (1) Utilize numbers to replace words and (2) utilize words of such indeterminate meaning that definition depends entirely upon local usage.We should strive to replace any means of diagnosis that does not convey specificity with means capable of precision.
Striven
Definition:
() p. p. of Strive.
(p. p.) of Strive
Example Sentences:
(1) In acute indications for discontinuing the treatment with antithrombotics depending on the clinical urgency a gradually different discontinuation by stages should be striven for, in order to avoid thromboembolic relapses.
(2) By exact references to the mathematical derivation and to the construction a practical use is striven for.
(3) Until last night Angela Merkel and François Hollande had striven almost heroically to present a united front, visiting each other’s capitals for preparatory talks before almost every potentially contentious EU discussion on Greece.
(4) Although there are many issues with the historical accuracy of the plot, as well as the portrayal of Canadians and the Iranian people , I understand these issues, as I have made a career of producing historical films and biographies where I have striven to be as accurate as possible.
(5) We have striven for the past 12 months not to be in this situation and it is a relief amongst the vast majority of petrol tanker drivers that common sense seems to have prevailed.
(6) This will particularly damage specialities such as anaesthetics, a department that has striven to make itself family friendly.
(7) Secured by a rare goal from Gabriel Obertan this long striven for victory was not always entirely convincing but at least offers Alan Pardew a little respite as he endeavours to keep his seat in the home manager’s dugout.
(8) Another spokesman, Arthur Huang, wrote in an email: "Foxconn has provided workers with a far better environment and benefits [than] the manufacturing industry as a whole, yet has long striven to be a leader in corporate social responsibility and continuously pushes for [improvement]."
(9) It is demonstrated how quantity and distribution of the dialyses, clearance and duration of the dialysis are to be chosen in order to obtain in a patient a course of the urea concentration striven for.
(10) Recent investigations of the developments which began in 1938 show that by way of intensive efforts for a juridicial legalization of the "active euthanasia" an enlargement of this killing practice has been striven after.
(11) Despite a higher risk of a renewed extrauterine pregnancy especially in younger women without any pregnancy before and in women wishing a child with only one tube or with a pathologically changed contralateral tube, respectively, the tube-saving operation should be striven for.
(12) The mutual relationships between coronary and peripheral arterial occlusive diseases are of particular significance for the rehabilitation measures striven for.
(13) Further investigations on large populations of patients must, however, still confirm whether or not the advantages of the fix combination striven for or theoretically to be expected can be proved in practice.
(14) In these cases in the adipose asymptomatic diabetes should primarily always be striven for a normalisation of the body-weight, whereas for test persons with normal weight the indication for the buformin-therapy is given.
(15) The iodisation of the entire common salt with modified iodine concentration is striven for.
(16) It is urged that early recognition of non-A, non-B hepatitis should be striven for, because interferon therapy may lead to an improved prognosis of the disease, particularly in cases of possible transitional phase from acute to chronic disease.
(17) After a time of overstated diet prescriptions nowadays the individual nutrition of the patient with ulcer with a diet of high quality is striven for.
(18) Tsai said Liu had striven to transform China into a nation where human rights and the rule of law were respected.
(19) In recent decades the governments of the nations that surround the Bay of Bengal have striven to expand and encourage their fisheries.
(20) Transfusion must principally be striven for, taking into consideration the HLA-typing, but at present it is only limitedly possible.