Word: striven
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...earned a reputation as a political chameleon. It was De Gaulle's return to power in 1958 that finally cast Mitterrand into the leftist camp. He denounced the creation of the Fifth Republic as a "power play" aimed at fracturing the left opposition. Ever since, Mitterrand has striven for a broad reunified left, a goal that eludes him even now in his hour of victory...
...striven mightily to turn back the clock, coming out of a two-year retirement to train harder than ever. Since his defeat of Leon Spinks in the fall of 1978, Ali had ballooned to a blubbery 254 Ibs. But after he signed (for $8 million) to fight Holmes in a 25,000-seat temporary arena specially built in the parking lot of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Ali retreated to his training camp in the Pennsylvania mountains to whittle away the excess pounds. More than two months of arduous workouts reduced him to fighting trim; he weighed...
Calling the Independent article misleading, some residents said Currier House has consistently striven for a harmonious community. The meeting was an example of Currier House's efforts to improve relations, William A. Titus '81 said...
What extraordinary vehicles destiny selects to accomplish its design. This man, so lonely in his hour of triumph, so ungenerous in some of his motivations, had navigated our nation through one of the most anguishing periods in its history. He had striven for a revolution in American foreign policy so that it would overcome the disastrous oscillations between overcommitment and isolation. Despised by the Establishment, ambiguous in his human perceptions, he had yet held fast, determined to prove that the strongest free country had no right to abdicate. What would have happened had the Establishment about which...
Prospero, so often described as omniscient, refers to Caliban as a creature "on whose nature nurture can never stick." But he is quite wrong. In the dozen years Prospero and his daughter have lived on the island, Caliban has striven to better himself and has learned how to speak well. In the course of the play he learns valuable lessons and at the end asserts, "I'll be wise hereafter, and seek for grace...