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strive English

Meaning strive meaning

What does strive mean?
Definitions in simple English

strive Verb

— To strive is when someone struggles or tries something very hard. India had strived for independence.

strive

— verb (= endeavor, endeavour) attempt by employing effort we endeavor to make our customers happy — verb (= strain) to exert much effort or energy straining our ears to hear

Synonyms strive synonyms

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strive English » English

struggle endeavor endeavour try attempt contend try hard aim aspire fight vie make an effort exert work hard compete battle labour exert oneself strain reach seek dispute wrestle toil scramble make effort long intend crave be resolved be determined struggle for pursue mean make an attempt labor firm diligent contest be diligent zero in yearn vie for usurp undertake try out try for train tourney target

Topics strive topics

What do people use strive to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict

Fight
Work and occupation Work Method

Try, attempt
Work and occupation Work Method Work well

Work hard
Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Purpose, goal

Conjugation strive conjugation

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strive · verb

Examples strive examples

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Simple sentences

Strive to simplify everything.
Strive to be happy.
Only two years after receiving their secondary school diploma, young people today know merely ten percent of what they learned on school. That's crazy! We must strive for 100 percent.
To strive against the stream requires courage.
Let's strive after virtue and give up vice.
We must strive to exceed clients' expectations.
As happiness doesn't exist, we have to strive to be happy without it.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy.
Strive only for self-interest and nothing else.
Strive for profit above all.
Strive for profit and pursue nothing else.
My boy, this peace is what all true warriors strive for!
We all strive for success.
Since happiness doesn't exist, we have to strive to be happy without it.
I strive not to make sudden movements.
We must strive to receive the seal of the living God, rather than be afraid to receive the mark of the beast.

Movie subtitles

But from my struggling youth until today my principal aim has been to strive for truth.
Let us now strive to bind up the nation's wounds.
I shall strive to, Wendy.
I'll strive, with troubled thoughts, to take a nap. lest leaden slumber weigh me down tomorrow. when I should mount with wings of victory.
We strive to develop their instincts, encourage their impulses.
We constantly strive toward perfection by inner silence.
It's a terrible thing to strive for a lifetime. and come to the final realization. that you have failed.
We strive to give satisfaction, sir.
But I thought we must strive to keep the masks on.
We fail sometimes, but I want to strive for spiritual perfection.
And now, as I said before, we strive to produce artificial crystals.
A contest has been arranged between you in which you are enjoined to strive your utmost.
Recog n i z e th at al I word s are p art fal se an d p art tru e Iimi ted by our imp erfect un d erstan din g but strive always f or h on esty wi thin yoursel f.
Strive for perfection, sister.
He's the handsomest man in the Russian court, tall and formed like a Greek god. a model in fashion and deportment which all of us strive to follow.
Be kind to those who are in your service. and obedient to your husband and superiors. and strive at all times to be worthy of your glorious destiny.
We used to strive to get rid of Charlotte so that we could be alone, remember?
If you thought me happy, would you strive so to amuse me?
Making happiness look beautiful, this is something to strive for.
The father never talks. All he does is strive to find the natural shape. The mother has been confined to bed for 2 years.
In each of our stories, we strive to teach a lesson or point a little moral.
For once people see a beaten man, they only strive to add some more.
Exactly what you and your supporters strive for.
That springs from this palace. You're asking me to strive for his favor?
That Jehovah is God the Father, I have to strive not to forget.
I give it my best, I strive.
It's idiotic, of course, to strive to achieve what's impossible.
If I permit you to join your classmates out on that platform, will you strive to do your best from this day forward?
What is there to strive for Love or keep alive for?
Methought I had, and often did I strive. to yield the ghost.
It's just this. Never strive with God.
Nay, if you strive.
Why she must go to school leaving me behind to strive alone at home?
And we shall always strive to overcome them.
We shall strive to be worthy of your sense of grandeur.
All they can strive for is postponing their inevitable date with the butcher.
Would you,too, strive to obtain wisdom?

News and current affairs

It is in recognition of this fact that German conservatives strive, for example, to strike a balance between economy and ecology.
Most people outside China do not fully appreciate the extent to which its leaders, by contrast, have engaged in extensive deliberations and broad consultations (even with foreigners) as they strive to solve the enormous problems they face.
Mousavi ran as a reformist who said he would strive for greater freedom of the press, more rights for women, and fewer restrictions on the private lives of Iranians.
Those in Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, India and other emerging markets should be told a quite different message: do not strive for a mythical free-market economy, which has never existed.
But they can strive to shape a more cooperative future.
That is why the EU should strive to create a fiscal framework that has the sole objective of ensuring that its members' debts are sustainable.
At the very moment when today's candidate countries strive for EU membership, EU enlargement is feared by those states that are unlikely to join the Union for the foreseeable future.
If we have poor measures, what we strive to do (say, increase GDP) may actually contribute to a worsening of living standards.
Why do so many of us strive to obtain more money, if it won't make us happier?
She will strive to enter the Oval Office - the theater of her inner, outer, and planetary misery - on her own terms.
It may be more natural for the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia to strive for closer regional cooperation with Austria and Slovenia, the contours of which can already be seen in some existing regional groupings.
They may strive to improve their performance, but often they do so for its own sake, for the sense of achievement.
Companies that want to attract and retain investors strive for financial transparency.
In this view, America's ingenuity represents its true comparative advantage, which others strive to imitate.
As a result, the mandarins survived WWII and the postwar American occupation relatively undamaged, and they will strive to survive the DPJ government as well.
Indeed, political entanglements are one of two sources of weakness in European-style family capitalism, as owners seek political advantages and preferred access as much as they strive for technical innovation.
For starters, we can certainly expect a continuation of the so-called currency wars, in which countries strive to keep their exchange rates from appreciating too rapidly and choking off exports.
For the true believers in this creed, the suggestion that the manager of a business should strive for anything except maximizing value for shareholders is heresy.
Every leader and legislator should strive to live up to those ideals as he or she responds to the threat of extremism.
And if we want democracy along with globalization, we must shove the nation-state aside and strive for greater international governance.
For the time being, Israel should strive for the safest truce it can accomplish, provided that Hamas stops shooting out of its own crowded living room.
All of them, thanks to globalization and new communication technologies, will strive for the same standard of living, give or take, which will necessarily lead to an overstretched global ecosystem.
Those who consider themselves members of the global free press should collectively strive to construct similar networks over which news and reporting can run free and be available to anyone with an Internet connection.
Indeed, all of the Euroskeptic and nationalist forces in the EU's member states would strive, with increasing success, to make their respective countries' withdrawal from the EU the central issue in domestic political debate and election campaigns.

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