Endeavors
[ɪn'devəz] or [ɪn'dɛvɚz]
Examples
- She asks for a hundred pounds, and endeavors to buy them off. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was acutely conscious that this was an enterprise too great for any one man, and he used his utmos t endeavors to induce James I to become the patron of the plan. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It would have perceived that such disconnection, such rupture of continuity, denied in advance the possibility of success in their endeavors. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- For instance, at the time when he was making strenuous endeavors to obtain copper wire of high conductivity, strict laboratory tests were made of samples sent by manufacturers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As they originally existed they were indifferent to human endeavors. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The experiments wer e now definitely abandoned, and the inventor was overwhelmed by the sense of failure, and still more by the skepticism with which the pu blic had regarded his endeavors. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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