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Example sentences for: striving

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China, with major plans to supply its own needs in industries such as motor vehicles, aerospace, and semiconductors, is clearly one country striving for self-sufficiency.
Americans imagine the striving, suffering Irishwomen and the hard-drinking, hard-fighting, working-class Irishmen to be the sort of people who founded, and now form the backbone of, our own country.
The genre changed to pastoral: Tarzan and Jane became the equivalents of the innocent shepherds and shepherdesses of Hellenistic Greek and Renaissance pastoral fiction, striving to preserve their natural idyll from corruption by civilization.
Perhaps Maslin, striving to avoid that fate, stumbled onto one equally unfortunate--she let hope triumph over experience.
By striving and succeeding without complaint, Asian immigrants have become, in the words of Irving Kristol, "just another 'European' ethnic group."