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    1. Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of


    2. For long term control of fleas on your property, you must strive to constantly raise the energy level of your property


    3. We should strive to rid ourselves of


    4. the past behind us and strive ahead, into His healing presence…


    5. When we strive for His presence, seek intimacy with Him, abide in


    6. need for leaders who will strive to have the mind of Christ and be servants in the Kingdom


    7. She was serious and industrious by native standards, meaning she would strive for more than enough to eat to get to tomorrow


    8. Those very nations that rebel and strive with all of their might to continue in a place of rule and government shall be overpowered and brought under the government of God


    9. The tension/release principle: A person may strive to be what (s)he would


    10. Strive to be a good guy or gal, bend over

    11. strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers


    12. I strive to overcome everything that keeps me from 19


    13. But YingolNeerie? A land of force and slavery and a life of nothing but a vicious quest for dominance where everyone must constantly strive beyond all possible need? That was a land lost to great evil like the dark lands in the wars of magic


    14. of the company, the managers strive to


    15. Sometimes people strive to achieve great goals because of the despair that they feel when they refuse to accept something that has happened


    16. In case it’s not obvious, the last option is what you strive to achieve


    17. HAVE THE CHOICE OF WHICH ONES TO STRIVE FOR


    18. YOU HAVE TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANT AND STRIVE FOR IT, ACT


    19. Our individuality may be evident in this physical world of ours, but we must always strive to remember the greatest truth of life, which announces – “We are One


    20. were given (& use wisely); the ideals you create (& strive

    21. In some countries doctors strive to eradicate death and disease


    22. In TIAR you felt the capacity to strive to be an ideal self, and it seemed better to be true to that ideal than the actual


    23. representative of those who strive to live above the common


    24. “But you tried to tell me that I shouldn’t strive for death and self-harm because I had a lot to live for, because freedom was worth fighting for


    25. Perhaps it was in the genes to strive for the most challenging goal


    26. From now on, strive to do what you know you should do, even if you are not in the mood


    27. Strive to help others evaluate things in such a way that they feel productive and happy, no matter what is going on “out there”


    28. “I strive to be humble, but there are times when I would feel that way as well,” admitted Alistair, his cheeks pinkening, lowering his eyes


    29. They tend to strive in competitive orientated environments


    30. Hence he does not strive to ally himself with all and sundry, nor does he foster the power of other states

    31. In twenty years, will it make any difference? I then strive to put it in perspective and focus on the happier moments in my life and what truly matters


    32. The Hotel Bohemia had been a favorite of the Germans during their occupation of Czechoslovakia, when it had been known as the Böhmenhof, and the owners continued to strive to maintain the best of standards


    33. This will induce them to strive for His Grace and follow the path


    34. ing, but He may be a little slower than we expect, therefore strive to


    35. In human societies, rewards such as increased status within the group that increased choices in food resources, enhanced sexual choices, and eventually, long-term remembrance would offer an understandable incentive to strive toward providing for the common good


    36. ing American is about, and this is what we should all strive for


    37. Luk 13:24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able


    38. Where strive the restless hearts?


    39. Do not go out hastily to strive, in case you do not know what to do at the ending of it, when


    40. Experts said the formation of character in childhood, and I think as long as the character is not perfect, we should strive to make our character to improve and perfect, because in many cases

    41. · Study those desires in your life that control you, and strive to release yourself from anything artificial that exerts power over you: drugs, alcohol, negative habits, fears – anything that causes you to lose power


    42. you shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and those who strive with you shall perish


    43. Accordingly, to be protected from suffering as much as possible, and to prevent experiencing a lower rebirth, we need to strive not to produce negative karma, as well as purify the harmful karma already created (covered later in the book)


    44. 9 Woe to him who strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the Earth


    45. In his ignorance, man thinks he can successfully strive for his own interests, and this wrongly-directed energy of selfishness produces suffering


    46. You must all swear to strive to do good in every way, without counting the cost


    47. another, for your people are as those who strive with the priest


    48. 1 Strive not with a mighty man? lest you fall into his hands


    49. 3 Strive not with a man who is full of tongue, and heap not wood on his fire


    50. 9 Strive not in a matter that concerns you not; and sit not in judgment with sinners













































    1. He describes it as a frame of mind “in which nothing definite is thought, planned, striven for, desired, or expected, which aims in no particular direction and yet knows itself capable alike of the possible and the impossible, so unswerving is its power…” [183] The author quotes his teacher as saying, “The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede


    2. Perhaps the archery master, in Zen in the Art of Archery, was referring to right action when he said that the archer practices his art in a state “in which nothing definite is thought, planned, striven for, desired or expected, which aims in no particular direction…” [272]


    3. The right girl would want him for what he had striven towards rather than for any framed piece of paper, that award which said he was now a success


    4. and you were not aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven against the Lord


    5. The neat groupings of one hundred, each with its own leader that Moshe had striven to produce on the first day of the march south, having slowly reformed into the looser arrangements of convenience, now showed almost no resemblance to its original form


    6. Moshe’s charges slipped into the safety of the shadow of the hill that they had striven so mightily to reach as the patrol raced past where they had left the road, in obvious pursuit of the fleeing Caleb


    7. The neat groupings of one hundred, each with its own leader that Moshe had striven to


    8. Moshe's charges slipped into the safety of the shadow of the hill that they had striven so


    9. Wherefore then my brethren let us struggle with all earnestness knowing that the contest is [in our case] close at hand and that many undertake long voyages to strive for a corruptible reward; yet all are not crowned but those only that have laboured hard and striven gloriously


    10. There will not be a man or woman there who has not delighted in the Word of God, poured out his soul in prayer at the throne of grace, and striven to live a holy life

    11. Accomplished sages have striven to explain the nature of the world by


    12. be earnestly striven for; and when they send what they


    13. � In that way, we surrender our freedom, a quality of life and living for which many have striven and fought for throughout human and personal history


    14. Conversely, others greatly fear them and have long striven to prevent such enlightenment


    15. ancient symbology and have long striven to grasp the meaning of this and


    16. Modern Rome is grateful to the English and the Germans who have striven to prove that she is not the Babylon of the Apocalypse


    17. The conditions of that glorious destiny we have striven, according to our ability, to set forth in the foregoing pages


    18. He had striven all his life to do what he could for her, and he'd nothing to reproach himself with


    19. As for my disposition, that is, perhaps, somewhat too hasty; but I have striven to repress it


    20. He had striven to put a cheat upon himself by making the avowal of a guilty conscience, but had gained only one other sin, and a self-acknowledged shame, without the momentary relief of being self-deceived

    21. “O Arthur,” cried she, “forgive me! In all things else, I have striven to be true! Truth was the one virtue which I might have held fast, and did hold fast, through all extremity; save when thy good,—thy life,—thy fame,—were put in question! Then I consented to a deception


    22. Here he had studied and written; here, gone through fast and vigil, and come forth half alive; here, striven to pray; here, borne a hundred thousand agonies! There was the Bible, in its rich old Hebrew, with Moses and the Prophets speaking to him, and God's voice through all! There, on the table, with the inky pen beside it, was an unfinished sermon, with a sentence broken in the midst, where his thoughts had ceased to gush out upon the page, two days before


    23. He was not the worthless, broken, forsaken man that the Bird had striven to make of him


    24. upon me—she who had striven so to loosen it—and it haunted her night and day the thought that my soul might again be within his grip


    25. All the courtesy, all the gentleness Ellen had striven to instill in


    26. She had the mobile face frequent in those whose sight has decayed by stages, has been laboriously striven after, and reluctantly let go, rather than the stagnant mien apparent in persons long sightless or born blind


    27. Bulstrode saw in it not only medical jealousy but a determination to thwart himself, prompted mainly by a hatred of that vital religion of which he had striven to be an effectual lay representative—a hatred which certainly found pretexts apart from religion such as were only too easy to find in the entanglements of human action


    28. Knowledge, Rule, Order; all the things that we have so far striven in vain


    29. I remembered something the philosopher Spinoza once wrote: “I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them


    30. Hence we have a secondary aim, that of preparing our members as much as possible to reform their hearts, to purify and enlighten their minds, by means handed on to us by tradition from those who have striven to attain this mystery, and thereby to render them capable of receiving it

    31. And just at this time he obtained the tranquillity and ease of mind he had formerly striven in vain to reach


    32. Alexander I- the pacifier of Europe, the man who from his early years had striven only for his people’s welfare, the originator of the liberal innovations in his fatherland- now that he seemed to possess the utmost power and therefore to have the possibility of bringing about the welfare of his peoples- at the time when Napoleon in exile was drawing up childish and mendacious plans of how he would have made mankind happy had he retained power- Alexander I, having fulfilled his mission and feeling the hand of God upon him, suddenly recognizes the insignificance of that supposed power, turns away from it, and gives it into the hands of contemptible men whom he despises, saying only:


    33. Since the beginning of her film career, Marilyn had striven to win the approval and respect of those in her profession


    34. I assure you that in all my life I never saw a more fearful expression of face and figure! He was evidently quite forgetful of the care with which he had striven till then to hide his feelings from us, and his endeavours to appear cheerful—though, of course, no one was deceived


    35. Haven't I striven, striven with all my strength, to find something to give meaning to my life? Haven't I struggled to love him, to love my son when I could not love my husband? But the time came when I knew that I couldn't cheat myself any longer, that I was alive, that I was not to blame, that God has made me so that I must love and live


    36. Mankind as a whole has always striven to organize a universal state


    37. “The medical experts have striven to convince us that the prisoner is out of his mind and, in fact, a maniac


    38. They even increased the prosaicness of that to which before they had striven to give such a fantastic colour


    39. As you know, I have striven hard to open English eyes to the emptiness of Shakespeare's philosophy, to the superficiality and second-handedness of his morality, to his weakness and incoherence as a thinker, to his snobbery, his vulgar prejudices, his ignorance, his disqualifications of all sorts for the philosophic eminence claimed for him


    40. Alexander I—the pacifier of Europe, the man who from his early years had striven only for his people’s welfare, the originator of the liberal innovations in his fatherland—now that he seemed to possess the utmost power and therefore to have the possibility of bringing about the welfare of his peoples—at the time when Napoleon in exile was drawing up childish and mendacious plans of how he would have made mankind happy had he retained power—Alexander I, having fulfilled his mission and feeling the hand of God upon him, suddenly recognizes the insignificance of that supposed power, turns away from it, and gives it into the hands of contemptible men whom he despises, saying only:

    41. Everyone who gains a position of power he has striven for, every general, every minister, every millionaire, every petty official who has gained the place he has coveted for ten years, every rich peasant who has laid by some hundred rubles, passes through this unconscious process of softening


    1. What he strives to explain


    2. Martin strives to present her audiences with tantalizing impossibilities made possible through love


    3. Man evidently rejects the idea of perpetual peace and harmony and strives to control and own what is his anyway


    4. that strives and surges


    5. 9 Woe to him who strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the Earth


    6. 9 Regardless his care is, not that he shall have much labour, nor that his life is short, but strives to excel goldsmiths and silversmiths,


    7. AISD strives to balance the needs of the


    8. strives to foster an environment that


    9. Bullard strives to


    10. Ware strives to maintain a diverse, harmo-

    11. strives “to improve all segments of the area


    12. That is the essence of destruction the Civil War strives to achieve


    13. Often the Bhogi strives harder


    14. He has always a reward in mind and strives


    15. the Harnas staff strives to cater to every need of their guests


    16. DSA strives to be a crucial socialist leaven within a mass movement and will endeavor to elect progressives to Congress and to the state legislature


    17. As he strives


    18. The son strives for the freedom to act responsibly on his own


    19. It is the state he strives for, the body bringing only pain


    20. This is the mind-executioner’s dream and this is what he strives towards

    21. We must remember that he who strives in the corruptible contest if he be found acting unfairly is taken away and scourged and cast out from the lists


    22. He strives to avoid making the same errors as were made in the past in order to progress and continue to improve


    23. He strives to keep a low profile without ever losing control


    24. This good spirit ever strives to lead us to God, to help us to find God and to know God; but also within mortals there are many natural physical tendencies which the Creator put there to serve the well-being of the individual and the race


    25. Simplified down, most all in the existence of this world strives with a forward motion


    26. Though, the real requirement is that he strives onwards


    27. organization diligently strives for the improvement of


    28. Diligently strives and works to rescue and place wild,


    29. With its business, Patagonia strives to inspire others to be aware of the needs of the planet while building a great product and causing no harm to the earth or its citizens


    30. The program strives to educate children in Ojai’s public schools to opt for better, healthier food choices, making them aware of obesity and diabetes

    31. For those already suffering from chronic diseases, disease management strives to improve and streamline the treatment regimen for common, chronic health conditions, like diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer, which are correlated with obesity, smoking, diet, and exercise and are very expensive to treat over long periods of time


    32. The wise man strives to no goals but the foolish man fetters himself


    33. that strives toward its own becoming


    34. Random Fact #2: She strives to best him


    35. At first, in a desperate effort to maintain the fiction underlying his chaotic personality, the narcissist strives to explain away the sudden reversal of sentiment


    36. Putin strives to exploit the West's aversion to conflict and addiction to wealth


    37. champion’s boarders to collide with grief again with complete annihilation, strives to


    38. He strives with you by His Spirit


    39. Because internally, on the subconscious level, he strives for true freedom, freedom of his soul


    40. Because our internal nature, our soul, strives for this every moment of life

    41. Jacob was renamed Israel meaning “He who strives with God” after his struggle with a divine being by his wives Leah and Rachel and their maids, he fathered 12 sons to whom traced tribes of Israel


    42. The electric signals strives other cells in the two olfactory bulbs for increasing the smelling sensitivity which then goes to the thalamus and frontal cortex


    43. A song of revelation, it strives to demonstrate what God must be in all his divine splendour


    44. natural disposition and the wise man also strives accordingly, of what


    45. Man is always killing time by the things he loves and by the things he strives


    46. this he strives well for perfection (that comes from the realization of


    47. Constructs of man’s warped mind that eternally strives to make “real” that which doesn’t exist—and to deny the reality of all that does


    48. And He says: “That who strives, he strives but for his own advantage


    49. In another verse, He says: “He that strives strives but for himself


    50. He also says:“And whoever strives hard, strives for the good of his own spirit only






































    1. (26) Striving over words to no profit is always a danger in discussing the affairs of the


    2. She was striving hard to pursue her dream of becoming a


    3. We see politicians striving to stay in political power as long as they can


    4. Their life stories were told and compared and much was made of the fact that two very different worlds had collided and, out of the chaos of the moment, had created a perfect picture of what the country should be striving for


    5. had created a perfect picture of what the country should be striving


    6. labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun? 23 For all his


    7. This also is vanity and a striving after wind


    8. Why did she think it was? Were they only trying to answer the question of whether Tdeshi OD’d from striving or despondency, he might have thought it was solved


    9. He agreed with Ava that she had done it thru striving


    10. But what was she striving for? He didn’t know enough yet and maybe more important, he didn’t understand how that influenced the differences between Ava and Tdeshi

    11. veered away, striving to distance themselves from the streams of


    12. But in spite of her rebuffs, Jorma had persisted like an Earth man, letting her slip into the familiar role of the man wanting more and the woman striving to deny


    13. suggests the idea that the leaders are striving to


    14. You are striving for recognition


    15. Then you know what I did all those years ago, and that now myself and the B’tari are striving to understand the process – to reverse it


    16. He felt nervous, his mind striving for clarity


    17. They showed him all that they were striving for, the research, the earth's elements given up to them to harness and the general feeling of the city and its need for secrecy


    18. quandary lies in striving to know all that we could hope to know although not completely knowing while qualifying our need to know


    19. They would then seek out one another to rub elbows socially, each striving to create in the eyes of the others an image of himself as vitally important, slick and, most importantly, as one dangerous bad-ass


    20. More than that, though: men striving to accomplish something, so that a girl felt good being around them

    21. In the center of the melee, defying the immense power of the Samosa regime, would be Raul, with the charisma of a Greek god and a voice to match, speaking of a new commune-ized Nicaragua built by the hands of the people: a Nicaragua where all the land would be owned by everyone, equally, a brotherhood striving for the common good without the greed of capitalistic competition


    22. Their striving against these sources of imperfection of the Word has been preserved within the record of their teachings


    23. improve things and they should be constantly striving to do so


    24. She loved a challenge and this whole process had been about striving to make the


    25. During the last few weeks, while striving to behave as normally as possible at the club, at home and at work, I have been collecting as much evidence as I can on the Excellence club, its practices, and its members and of course, these horrific murders


    26. Running: Swiftness; striving; working out one’s salvation; faith; haste; trial


    27. Derek was right, what was the point of striving?


    28. You see what Azezel has done, who has taught all unrighteousness on Earth and revealed the eternal secrets which were preserved in Heaven, which men were striving to learn, and Semjeze, to whom you have given authority to bear rule over his associates; And they have gone to the daughters of men on the Earth, and have slept with the women, and have defiled themselves, and revealed to them all kinds of sins; And the women have borne giants, and the whole Earth has thereby been filled with blood and unrighteousness; And now, note, the souls of those who have died are crying and making their suit to the gates of Heaven and their Lamentations have ascended, and cannot cease because of the lawless deeds which are wrought on the Earth; And you know all things before they come to pass and you see these things and you do suffer them, and you do not say to us what we are to do to them in regard to these


    29. M: What is wrong with striving? Why look for results? Striving it-


    30. Shafarevich calls the socialist enticement a ceaseless war against what is normal, a striving for self-destruction and nothingness

    31. what is Yoga but striving


    32. M: Striving too is a form of restlessness


    33. Wherever there is conflict, effort, struggle, striving,


    34. striving for perfection is a way of joy


    35. tation is essential, the striving to go beyond the states of sleep,


    36. One might say that the concept of utopia, the striving towards a mythical perfect 'destination', has inflicted more misery on mankind than any other ideology


    37. Jay Whitacre, a battery researcher and technology policy analyst at Carnegie Mellon/University, said in an interview the government‘s goals‖ are aggressive and worth striving for, but they are not attainable in the next three to five years


    38. But what is the model they are striving for? For several decades, Sweden, one of the few European states that stayed neutral during


    39. structure, and their essence; that is what we have been striving for


    40. It is great to be called king or president or minister or director or CEO or sir or madam or boss, and yes, we should all be striving for advancement, but advancement entails doing more than the norm for country, or company, or church, or team or school, to maintain a serving attitude, to be seeking the best for the team, not for oneself

    41. You see what Azezel has done who has taught all unrighteousness on Earth and revealed the eternal secrets which were preserved in Heaven which men were striving to learn and Semjeze to whom you have given authority to bear rule over his associates; And they have gone to the daughters of men on the Earth and have slept with the women and have defiled themselves and revealed to them all kinds of sins; And the women have borne giants and the whole Earth has thereby been filled with blood and unrighteousness; And now note the souls of those who have died are crying and making their suit to the gates of Heaven and their Lamentations have ascended and cannot cease because of the lawless deeds which are wrought on the Earth; And you know all things before they come to pass and you see these things and you do suffer them and you do not say to us what we are to do to them in regard to these


    42. He might in the end lose the very thing that his soul was striving for


    43. And there were lessons about never settling for second best, but always, always striving for perfection


    44. Mercedes, BMWs, etc, and boy, that was what he was striving for


    45. become precisely what they always were, yet had been striving


    46. But they kept on fighting, kept on trying, when the sensible thing to do would have been to fall on their ancestral hunting spear and rest from all striving


    47. Somehow performance, religious mindsets, and striving creep in


    48. She snorted in disgust at his comment then remembered that she was striving to appear nicer so instead she complied without further argument and rode towards the wind break


    49. He would legitimately ask why on earth we were all striving so hard when we had everything and more that we could possibly need


    50. The first products coming from the hastily built new factories were striving to be superb even though most of the sub-suppliers were not yet up to speed













































    1. In the early days of their reign, Son and Lyla strove to turn the kingdom


    2. A rosy red colour, it was shaped like a heart … a white streak crossed from upper right to lower left … she strove to remember what she had learned at school … the bottom bit was called the ventricle, at least that is what she vaguely recalled from a long forgotten, unattended at the time, biology lesson


    3. Falteringly, Chrissie strove to do as she was told


    4. If the Kassikan was involved in something sinister regarding Tdeshi’s fate and Kulai knew about it, didn’t this man understand he would certainly lie? What sense did this questioning make? “In the last century?” Kulai asked while he strove to understand the real meaning of this question


    5. Kulai strove to control his breathing and say calmly, “I guess she had as good a chance as any of the claimants, but she’s studied with the Yingolians so she’d have a good chance of faking it too


    6. After two turns he strove to be silent but kept moving


    7. Many know that the Devil strove


    8. As was his habit, he strove not to cry audibly, suffering only the tears to betray his grief


    9. He strove for the appearance of no-more-than-casual interest on his next question


    10. The duty of surrendering is only worse than receiving surrender, and the American officers by every courtesy strove to lessen the humiliation of the defeated foe

    11. That would be unfortunate, if such an event were indeed possible, considering the hard fought efforts of individuals and groups spanning generations who strove to achieve a color-blind society contrary to the racial designs of bigots who, unfortunately, will always be among us


    12. We strove to speak, but choked


    13. And, after all, Galeron had strove to ensure his aims were achieved without anyone being hurt


    14. Women strove to be as healthy as they could because they faced a serious threat - a fifth of all women died during or just after childbirth


    15. That is to say; they strove to supersede conventional customs and practices with quasi-nihilistic manners whose unscrupulous rejection of conscientious values ultimately created a mix of (moral/spiritual) confusion whose legacy has unhappily become a distinguishing characteristic of today‘s youth


    16. As they pushed towards the opening door, those inside strove to escape


    17. His past condition seemed to recede from his memory as he strove to accomplish all that presented itself to his eager attention


    18. 6 And your handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one struck the


    19. ” The energy age might be defined as when the means to transportation and personal mobility, heating, cooling, electricity and the whole spectrum of what most of us, with even more joining in, enjoyed and strove for as “the standard of living


    20. Once, the Islamic culture strove to improve upon the mathematics of India, including geometry and trigonometry; the science and chemistry of Coptic Alexandria and Persia; the philosophy of Greece; the medicine of a time when in Europe medical practice was forbidden by the Church

    21. single file and without sound as they strove to reach their


    22. 2 Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, see, the four winds of the heavens strove on the


    23. very things that our forefathers strove hard to make illegal!


    24. 25 The elders who surrounded the king strove in many ways to divert his haughty mind from


    25. 1 As for our father Adam, at the end of seven years from the day he had been severed from his wife Eve, Satan envied him, when he saw him so separated from her; and strove to make him live with her again


    26. 16 And Eliezer strove with the man of Sodom on account of the poor man, and when Eliezer approached to recover the poor man's clothes from the man of Sodom, he hastened and with a stone struck Eliezer in the forehead


    27. 20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him


    28. 21 And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah


    29. 13 And when he went out the second day, note, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, how strike you your fellow?


    30. 10 And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;

    31. 13 This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the Lord, and he was sanctified in them


    32. This is that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the Lord:


    33. 1 As for our father Adam at the end of seven years from the day he had been severed from his wife Eve Satan envied him when he saw him so separated from her; and strove to make him live with her again


    34. water is our's: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove


    35. 21 And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the


    36. strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the


    37. became wealthy strove to buy land in order to join the landed aristocracy


    38. 10 It is heartbreaking how hard these men strove for acceptance, even to the point of conversion


    39. the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;


    40. 16 And Eliezer strove with the man of Sodom on account of the poor man and when Eliezer approached to recover the poor man's clothes from the man of Sodom he hastened and with a stone struck Eliezer in the forehead

    41. We have shown this on occasion to incoming or graduating Johnson School Park Leadership Fellows, after which I point out that my father was an entrepreneur, a pioneer who constantly sought and took advantage of opportunities, as well as a civic leader in his community who continuously strove to do the same for others, and that these are also the ideals on which the Park Leadership Fellows Program at the Johnson School are modeled


    42. At each Mass and in his evening prayers he strove for and sought and prayed fervently for humble submiss�ive�ness


    43. Those same ancestors, he had assured them, had done many great things under the same protection that he strove to convince the multitude now also covered them


    44. Her absence troubled him as he strove to make sure of the preparations


    45. 25 The elders who surrounded the king strove in many ways to divert his haughty mind from the design which he had formed


    46. It strove mightily to stay ahead of the whip that now lashed its hindquarters


    47. assured them, had done many great things under the same protection that he strove to


    48. strove mightily to stay ahead of the whip that now lashed its hindquarters


    49. I had never owned such intricate playthings before and strove to fine-tune their actions as if they were concert harps


    50. were taking a rest now as Rochelle's mind intently strove to follow












































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    Synonyms for "strive"

    reach strain strive endeavor endeavour contend fight struggle attempt aim toil essay

    "strive" definitions

    attempt by employing effort


    to exert much effort or energy