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Through working with the Villa Gardens community members, Friedland strove to inject humor into the film based on what she observed.

And as it turned out, all the groups the Democrats strove to stir to wounded umbrage weren’t much moved, and they weren’t impressed by the Democrats’ constantly being overcome by the vapors.

Grant and his eugenicist comrades strove to make America’s public policies as brutal as the racial science’s coldhearted facts.

Both deployed the "Southern strategy," described as such because it strove to appeal to white Southern voters who opposed racial integration following the Civil Rights Movement's success.

As rescuers worked, they strove to “reduce vibration and personnel close to the trench,” to avoid causing more dirt to cave in, he said.