Translation of "Strove" in French

The student strove for excellence.

L'étudiant s'est efforcé d'atteindre l'excellence.

Thither I drew, and strove with eager hold / a green-leaved sapling from the soil to tear, / to shade with boughs the altars, when behold / a portent, weird to see and wondrous to unfold!

Mes mains les destinaient aux autels de mes dieux, / lorsqu'un soudain prodige est offert à mes yeux.

The EU was founded in the time after the Second World War. With its first steps, the European Union promoted economic cooperation. It strove to create a mutual interdependence through economic exchange, which was intended to avoid risks of conflict.

Bâtie sur les ruines de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l'Union européenne a eu pour premier objectif de renforcer la coopération économique, afin de créer, à travers les échanges commerciaux, une interdépendance entre les pays qui écarte les risques de conflits.

- Here were her arms and her chariot; the goddess, even then, strove and nurtured this place to be a kingdom for the nations, if only the fates allowed.
- Here were shown / her arms, and here her chariot; evermore / e'en then this land she cherished as her own, / and here, should Fate permit, had planned a world-wide throne.

C'est là qu'étaient ses armes, / c'est là qu'était son char ; là, son superbe espoir / veut voir la terre entière adorer son pouvoir.

- He also suffered many things in war, while he strove to found a city, and to bear his gods to Latium: from this place arose the Latin race, the Alban fathers, and the walls of exalted Rome.
- Yea, and more, / in war enduring, ere he built a home, / and his loved household-deities brought o'er / to Latium, whence the Latin people come, / whence rose the Alban sires, and walls of lofty Rome.

Lorsqu'il portait ses dieux chez ces fameux Albains, / nobles fils d'Ilion, et pères des Romains, / créait du Latium la race triomphale, / et des vainqueurs des rois la ville impériale !