(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.
Strove
Definition:
(imp.) of Strive
() of Strive
() imp. of Strive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ferguson strove to unsettle City beforehand with a calculated outburst over the allegedly vainglorious streak in the people who run City but earlier still in the week he had suggested circumspectly that these opponents are bound to win a trophy in due course.
(2) As a self-help organization of the working class, the Association strove for education in the field of health and a healthy life-style and for the application of natural cures.
(3) Now the peace-lovers strove for a more realistic, modest aim – disarmament, international understanding, reconciliation and a humanisation of war through the abandonment of certain weapons.
(4) Whenever possible, however, he pursued his interests in psychometry and psychophysics and strove to remain active in psychology.
(5) They also strove for a Jewish state on both banks of the Jordan.
(6) I told him that a few years back I had spent time at a university studying with people who strove to understand the nature of terrorism.
(7) His UNPERU colleagues strove to decode this hydrocarbon Ragnarok.
(8) There are links here with the Mid Staffordshire scandal as they strove for and got semi-marketised status as a foundation trust.
(9) No wonder they strove to erase their experience from their history, and their minds.
(10) Earlier this year, they returned from Australia, where they strove to break down barriers by again using cricket as a weapon of decency.
(11) Rather, British commanders strove to maintain a distinctive British identity in what were essentially tactical operations.
(12) Sir Alan Reid, keeper of the privy purse, said the palace strove to provide good value for money.
(13) The crowd came to life at the start of the third set as Goffin strove for parity, and were ecstatic when Edmund drove a forehand long for the break.
(14) Sisi strove to paint the coup as the fulfilment of the popular will, following days of vast protests against Morsi's rule.
(15) Tuscany, Italy The historic hilltop villages of San Gimignano, Colle di Val d'Elsa, Strove and Monteriggioni are close enough to be linked with pleasant one-day walks.
(16) Initial studies in adult rat indicated that the regulation of cytochrome P450IIE1 is complex, therefore we strove to identify a central regulatory mechanism, using primary monolayer hepatocyte culture.
(17) This regional account of the progress of women physicians as they strove to become an integral part of the profession emphasizes the familiar themes of altruism, ingenuity, and perseverance that characterized their efforts.
(18) Faced with an enemy that sought only to divide, the National Health Service strove for unity.
(19) In 1989 he became the first chair of the Kingston Theatre Trust, a role he fulfilled with wit, determination and no small amount of ingenuity as we strove to build "the first theatre of the 21st century".
(20) Appearing on ITV's Daybreak, Manford said he and others were inspired to get involved by the teenager's positive attitude as he strove to make the best of his situation.