strivenIn the first place conservation will have to bestrivenfor.From theCambridge English CorpusAll three plays stood in a tradition of state paternalism from which the best practitioners in children's theatre have longstrivento escape.From theCambridge English CorpusFor many years, paediatricians havestrivento identify factors at birth predictive of long-term outcome.From theCambridge English CorpusThus, deductive database researchers havestrivento go beyond stratification and allow negation and aggregates in the recursive definitions of new predicates.From theCambridge English CorpusSince both problems share common analytical calculations, we havestrivento give a really general description of multispecies plasmas in this respect.From theCambridge English CorpusMost hadstrivento maintain their independence for as long as they could.From theCambridge English CorpusThe various international research guidelines havestrivento provide such a "common vocabulary" to guide international researchers.From theCambridge English CorpusWe havestrivento present a variety of arguments.From theCambridge English CorpusCertainly its managements havestrivenfor some time to get it on its feet in order to compete with the rest of the world.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0In this country we havestrivenfor centuries to establish and preserve the rights of free speech and expression.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0I havestriven, throughout my re-examination of the roads programme, to achieve that, and have put heavy emphasis on environmental aspects.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0In spite of all we have been doing, however well-intentioned it was, and however much we havestriven, the result is what we see to-day.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0You may change the character, as their reactionary administration hasstrivento change it, but you cannot arrest the advance of the tide of progress.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0On the whole, it is an efficient local authority which hasstrivenhard in the past few years to improve its efficiency.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0I havestrivenalways to get the position of the consumer properly stated and, wherever necessary, defended.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/striven##