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We are talking about a lot more issues ... broader issues, that bring two of the most powerful and influential nations together in endeavoring to do something proactive and aimed at creating greater peace.

Obama, Medvedev reach 'substantial' deal on Afghanistan 2009

Shortly after my division had rallied on the low hills already described, I discovered that the enemy, instead of attacking me in front, was wedging in between my division and the balance of the army; in short, endeavoring to cut me off from Chattanooga.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

Shortly after my division had rallied on the low hills already described, I discovered that the enemy, instead of attacking me in front, was wedging in between my division and the balance of the army; in short, endeavoring to cut me off from Chattanooga.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

She on her part spent her week in endeavoring to grow a perfect rose of a certain golden species, and her heart was given wholly to her father and her flower.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

And sometimes Ambrose and Hobb, after searching for Heriot or news of him, or spending their spirits in endeavoring to hearten their two brothers, or to elicit from them something that should give them the key to the mystery, would meet in Hobb's hill-garden, where seemed to be the only peace and loveliness left upon earth.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

So particular was the young smith that William spent the whole of another week in endeavoring to please him.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

Then all the brains were at work in endeavoring to find some other counter to submarines in the way of offensive measures.

The British Navy 1919

The Chinese merchants accepted me as one of their own countrymen, and vied with one another in endeavoring to make me as comfortable as circumstances would permit, one of them sending me by his servant a large dish of m'ien with meat and vegetables.

With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior 1901

Ere we part, accept my best thanks, my good, old friend, for your patience and perseverance in endeavoring to instruct one as ignorant and wilful as myself.

A Few Words to the Soldiers of the Confederate States. 1865

The difficulty has been in endeavoring to adjust the relations of the several States to the General Government.

The Mission of Abraham Lincoln 1865