verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
always
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We always strove to get a solution that was acceptable all round.
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Artists in this tradition have always striven to celebrate the present by prolonging it into the future.
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This is the nature of sciences and pseudo-sciences, always striving for a set of rules and final solutions.
constantly
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Governments are constantly striving to create equality thus avoiding conflict and hardship such as this Court ruling has done.
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Moreover, the struggling organization should strive constantly to legitimize its policies and procedures, and the decisions and beliefs behind them.
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In this way the film strives constantly to dispossess the characters.
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Equilibrium is a necessary condition toward which the organism constantly strives .
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We are constantly striving to improve and to do this, we need to know what you think.
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Commitment to the health service means constantly striving for better ways forward.
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Since those early days, telecommunications Companies have been striving constantly to make the network intelligent once again.
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A charity such as ours must constantly strive for greater efficiency, to put every penny of your subscription to good use.
for
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It defines what is important, worthwhile and worth striving for .
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Within their own group there was little to strive for since there were no clearly identifiable roles available.
■ NOUN
customer
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Indeed the Customer Service Charter featured below sets out the level of service we strive to sustain.
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So while businesses strive to please customers , government agencies strive to please interest groups.
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He strives to please his customers .
government
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Here and elsewhere, the government strove to identify itself with new themes.
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So while businesses strive to please customers, government agencies strive to please interest groups.
man
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I was now just impersonally a man , striving against the elements.
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He said a man strives , a woman maintains.
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In most societies men strive to be polygamists but few succeed.
people
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We also see many people striving to improve these conditions.
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The Hebrew people did not strive to read and write in order to decipher technical instructions.
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There was much activity at Brooklands as people strove to get ready for their attempts.
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On the contrary, this book is for people who strive to do that.
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Here were young people striving for the noblest ideals.
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The province of the mind. People strove to be free of Nature, seeing it as something outside of themselves.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The company must constantly strive for greater efficiency.
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Toni has been striving to achieve musical recognition for the past ten years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even when the judicial structure does strive to maintain some political independence, it still might respond to political pressure.
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Indeed the Customer Service Charter featured below sets out the level of service we strive to sustain.
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It defines what is important, worthwhile and worth striving for.
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She strove daily to be the perfect wife.
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The film strives for a surface kind of cynicism, only to invoke the Love Conquers All escape clause in the end.
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The many affirmations are either on what the self or others should strive for-to do or to become.
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They commit themselves to strive for its elimination.
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Which - she strove to be positive - left her the whole day in which to take her ease in Mariánské Láznë.