0 to try very hard to do something or to make something happen, especially for a long time or against difficulties: --
In her writing she strove for a balance between innovation and familiar prose forms.
[ + to infinitive ] Mr Roe has kindled expectations that he must now strive to live up to.
1 to try hard to do something or make something happen, esp. for a long time or against difficulties: --
These impact the nature of resources available to families and primary health care practitioners as they strive to achieve goals in care.
As a consequence it is difficult to mobilise and press for effective rights of citizenship, or strive to hold newly democratic governments to account.
To the military commanders of many of these countries, he strove to become an admired acquaintance, if not a close friend.
It is essentially human to be at once an inheritor, part of a culture, and an innovator, creatively striving within or against tradition.
Second, we have difficulties with judgments of value, and we strive for facts and immediate results.
Its striving toward documentary reality notwithstanding, this is footage from a very particular news network, arguably with its own interests and agenda.
A fundamental aspect of such design necessarily involves a rejection of the assumption that we strive for efficiency, perfection, or majority acceptance.
In the first place conservation will have to be striven for.
