endeavor

pyrkimys

pyrkiä, ponnistella, yrittää

hanke A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal.
1640, w:Thomas Hobbes|Thomas Hobbes, s:The Elements of Law/Part II/Chapter 28|The Elements of Law, part II, chapter 28:

And these three: 1. the law over them that have sovereign power; 2. their duty; 3. their profit: are one and the same thing contained in this sentence, Salus populi suprema lex; by which must be understood, not the mere preservation of their lives, but generally their benefit and good. So that this is the general law for sovereigns: that they procure, to the uttermost of their endeavour, the good of the people.

As we shall find it necessary, in our endeavours to bring electrical phenomena within the province of dynamics, to have our dynamical ideas in a state fit for direct application to physical questions we shall devote this chapter to an exposition of these dynamical ideas from a physical point of view.

The like has been the endeavour of critics, logicians, and even politicians (..).

And such were praised who but endeavoured well.

The other species of philosophers consider man in the light of a reasonable rather than an active being, and endeavour to form his understanding more than cultivate his manners.

It is our duty to endeavour the recovery of these beneficial subjects.

If you be affronted, it is better, in a foreign country, to pass it by in silence, and with a jest, though with some dishonour, than to endeavour revenge; for, in the first case, your credit's ne'er the worse when you return into England, or come into other company that have not heard of the quarrel.