strive 
strive (strīv)
intransitive verb strove or strived, striv′enstriv′ ən or strived, striv′·ing
- to make great efforts; try very hard to strive to win
- to be in conflict; struggle; contend; fight to strive against oppression
- Obsolete to compete; vie
Etymology: ME striven < OFr estriver, to quarrel, contend < estrif, effort < Gmc, as in MHG striben, obs. Du strijven, to strive, struggle < IE *streibh- (> Gr striphnos, hard, solid) < base *(s)ter-, rigid > stare
Preposition: against
- sin: Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
Preposition: towards
- excellence: AIM FIVE: Strive toward excellence by building our working principles into everything we deliver, and into how we work as an organization.
Adjective complement
- hard: The secret police strove very hard to isolate independent intellectuals from the body of the nation.
Modifying Another Word
- continually: We continually strive to better our service to our customers.
- constantly: Our schools constantly strive to provide the best possible opportunities for all young people.
- continuously: He further added, " the service listens to its customers and offers them choice and flexibility, continuously striving to improve... .
- tirelessly: But at Be we strive tirelessly to achieve it.
- always: We will always strive to solve any issues you may have.
Infinitive complement
- achieve: We strive to achieve individuality in every project we do.
- attain: Some writers have thought that when a person strives to attain a social goal then he / she is acting from an inferiority complex.
- improve: At Age Concern Bucks we are always striving to improve our services.
- ensure: We will strive to ensure our work reflects the diversity of the LGB population living in Wales.
- emulate: The dot.com scenario is not a vision which many SMEs could or should strive to emulate.
- overcome: He stated that other barriers, such as language could exist, but that the Fire Brigade would continue to strive to overcome these.
Preposition: for
- perfection: Such a life of striving for perfection must be rooted in prayer.
- excellence: We will continue to strive for excellence in service delivery.
- mastery: And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
- originality: The originating emotion still clots the lines or, in striving for originality, the work becomes muddled, pretentious or incoherent.
- unity: It is pandering to division and is a clear abandonment of any striving for unity.
- authenticity: From grinding her own pigments to dressing up in Tudor costume to associating with historical re-enactors she will strive for the greatest authenticity possible.
There lies the port; the vessel, puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with meö That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheadsöyou and I are old: Old age hath yet his honour and his toil; Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices.Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows: for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Though much is taken, much abides: and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and hearth: that which we are, we are: One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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