People who function well strive against odds because they hold on to hope.

To search for one he strove against the tide of his pain.

We strive for our way of life, not against any one person.

He did this as an example to us, that we should strive against temptation.

In other words, two or more candidates strive and compete against one another to attain a position of power.

But, all being dead to sense, who then is able to strive against the Angel?

I strove against it, and the experience was not restful.

Don't strive against your husband, go and lay yourself at his feet.

I was now just impersonally a man, striving against the elements.

And even so I am all but worn out, striving against them.