endeavor

endeavor
01. Hard work and determination are always important factors in the success of any [endeavor].
02. Businessman Andrew Carnegie donated about $330 million to libraries, research projects, and world peace [endeavors].
03. This latest mission to Saturn has been a particularly challenging engineering [endeavor].
04. Investigators are [endeavoring] to find the cause of the crash.
05. Paddling down the Amazon in a rubber raft was an incredibly dangerous and exciting [endeavor].
06. Gretchen is an excellent worker who puts her best effort into every [endeavor] she undertakes.
07. I wish you the best in all your future [endeavors].
08. The party is [endeavoring] to appeal to a broader range of voters in preparation for the upcoming election.
09. He has been involved in a number of failed business [endeavors] over the years.
10. The government has promised to increase funding for a number of important scientific [endeavors] which are currently underway.
11. At the Language Institute, our instructors [endeavor] to build a program which serves your specific language needs.
12. Learning a second language can be a difficult and frustrating [endeavor].
13. Albert Einstein once said, "Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical [endeavors]. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations."
14. Barbara Ward once suggested that there is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important [endeavor] and then leave it half done.
15. John Stuart Mill once remarked that we can never be sure that the opinion we are [endeavoring] to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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  • Endeavor — En*deav or, n. [Written also endeavour.] An exertion of physical or intellectual strength toward the attainment of an object; a systematic or continuous attempt; an effort; a trial. [1913 Webster] To employ all my endeavor to obey you. Sir P.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Endeavor — En*deav or, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Endeavored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Endeavoring}.] [OE. endevor; pref. en + dever, devoir, duty, F. devoir: cf. F. se mettre en devoir de faire quelque chose to try to do a thing, to go about it. See {Devoir}, {Debt}.]… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Endeavor — Endeavor, WI U.S. village in Wisconsin Population (2000): 440 Housing Units (2000): 170 Land area (2000): 0.642079 sq. miles (1.662978 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.059699 sq. miles (0.154620 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.701778 sq. miles (1.817598 …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Endeavor, WI — U.S. village in Wisconsin Population (2000): 440 Housing Units (2000): 170 Land area (2000): 0.642079 sq. miles (1.662978 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.059699 sq. miles (0.154620 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.701778 sq. miles (1.817598 sq. km) FIPS …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Endeavor — En*deav or, v. i. To exert one s self; to work for a certain end. [1913 Webster] And such were praised who but endeavored well. Pope. [1913 Webster] Note: Usually with an infinitive; as, to endeavor to outstrip an antagonist. [1913 Webster] He… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • endeavor — vb *attempt, try, essay, strive, struggle Analogous words: apply, devote, *direct, address: determine, resolve, *decide endeavor n essay, striving, struggle, attempt, try (see under ATTEMPT vb) Analogous words: toil, labor, travail, * …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • endeavor — [n] attempt to achieve something aim, all*, best shot*, crash project*, dry run*, effort, enterprise, essay, exertion, fling, full blast*, full court press*, full steam*, go, header*, labor, lick*, old college try*, one’s all*, one’s level best* …   New thesaurus

  • endeavor — [en dev′ər, indev′ər] vi. [ME endever < en (see EN 1) + dever < OFr deveir, duty, as in se mettre en deveir, to try to do: see DEVOIR] to make an earnest attempt; strive: now usually with an infinitive [to endeavor to finish first] vt.… …   English World dictionary

  • endeavor — I noun achievement, aim, application, assiduity, attempt, bid, campaign, cause, conatus, contentio, deed, effort, emprise, enterprise, essay, exercise, exertion, experiment exploit, feat, labor, nisus, pains, project, pursuance, pursuit, quest,… …   Law dictionary

  • endeavor — (n.) early 15c., pains taken to attain an object, lit. in duty, from phrase put (oneself) in dever make it one s duty (a partial translation of O.Fr. mettre en deveir put in duty ), from O.Fr. dever duty, from L. debere to owe (see DEBT (Cf.… …   Etymology dictionary

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