Sentences with phrase «heroic efforts at»

Heroic efforts at fundraising, various scholarships, plus help from grandparents, and off she went to Finland, which she had read had the smartest kids in the world.

Her recommendations have spawned some heroic efforts at creating «soaked grain bread,» a type of bread that is new to the human culinary experience.

Writing for politics.co.uk today, the Fabian Society's general secretary Andrew Harrop argued that Labour's public health efforts were «a heroic effort at running up a down escalator».

It looks like Labour's anti-poverty agenda before the crash was a heroic effort at running up a down escalator.

Not exact matches

This is the sign of a noble heart — to aim at high things, measuring one's effort, not by one's own strength, but by the strength of one's nature, and to envisage enterprises beyond the accomplishment even of those equipped with heroic courage.»

This seems to be the case with Clue Club, in which the clumsy, braggart bloodhounds, Woofer and Wimper, and sometimes Deedee and Pepper, provide the comic and antiheroic counterpoint to the successful efforts of Larry and Dottie, They show us that the creators of the show are aware of the widespread skepticism regarding the heroic, At the same time, the expected formulas of mystery and adventure can be executed for the sake of those (younger?)

Odd again, because, despite my best efforts to see something heroic in this man's biography, which might explain what his prose does not, I confess to see at best what Stephen Spender referred to, in a 1979 New York Review of Books piece (March 25, p. 13) on modern German self - analysis, as «der Nebel,» the fog that «allows people to live with unbearable experiences»; the fog that made it possible to «go along» or «not know.»

Second, the psychologist most frequently associated with Nietzsche is Freud, but Brooks isn't at all talking Freudian psychology when he tells us that «it is possible to achieve momentary harmony through creative work,» or that we don't secure «the good life through heroic self - analysis but through mundane, self - forgetting effort, and through everyday routines.»

But he is 46 and his heroic Open efforts may have left him sputtering near empty as the PGA kicks off just 11 days after he gave it all he had at Royal Troon.

Match Predictions: Barcelona are in such great form at the moment and it will take an heroic effort from Las Palmas to get something out of this match.

It looked bleak for the visitors at half - time, as despite an heroic effort from David de Gea to deny Roman Eremenko from the penalty spot, Seydou Doumbia had given the hosts the lead as he reacted first to the rebound.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo today signed legislation to expand unlimited sick leave benefits for public sector officers and employees who developed a qualifying health condition as a result of their heroic response to 9/11 rescue, recovery, and clean - up efforts at World Trade Center sites.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today signed legislation to expand unlimited sick leave benefits for public sector officers and employees who developed a qualifying health condition as a result of their heroic response to 9/11 rescue, recovery, and clean - up efforts at World Trade Center sites.

Labour's chances of winning an outright majority at the next election — or even of forming part of a coalition — now seem to depend on an heroic effort from core supporters in its heartlands.

«I consider it a heroic effort that is worth recognition and praise,» says Anthony Greenwald, a psychologist at the University of Washington, Seattle, but «it's hard to say that this model will be widely adopted.

As night fell on Friday in Japan, workers and soldiers continued heroic efforts to douse the potential meltdown underway at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

When this is about weight loss, that translates to a temporary, and often heroic, effort at Deprivation, feelings of Sacrifice, and a sense of Hardship.

But even as he's being hailed for his heroic efforts, questions arise as to who or what was really at fault.

With heroic efforts, some high schools may be able to take entering 9th graders who are reading at a 4th or 5th grade level and truly equip them for college — but probably not in four years.

Reduce your annual investment costs from 1.5 % to just 1 % — hardly a heroic effort — and you're looking at a nest egg worth roughly $ 505,000.

«The bravery and untiring efforts displayed by each of the Search and Rescue (SAR) dogs at the World Trade Center disaster site are truly heroic and exemplify the courageous hearts of ProHeart Heroes.

Her work celebrates the earnest, heroic, and always botched human efforts at transcendence.

People have carried the most amazing things by bike, and we at TreeHugger have helped publicize their sometimes heroic efforts to make two wheels hauls tons of goods.

Stabilizing the climate system will require a heroic global effort, but the point here is only to show that, at least at the level of technologies and practices, such an effort can do more than merely succeed; that it can succeed well, and open into futures that we can actually bear to contemplate.

If the biosphere can be saved at this point even in theory, and my doubts on this increase every day, the efforts required will be of a heroic nature.

While I appreciate the heroic efforts of lawyers like Andre who devote their time (and let's not kid ourselves: Supreme Court litigation is time and labor intensive) at no charge to bringing cases to the Supreme Court, let's not forget that there's a need for resources at the lower level.

I realize the the acts of three firms that received money for work held out as pro bono shouldn't taint the heroic efforts of the other 50 firms which did indeed work at no cost and at least, in my mind, they don't.

There are smaller systems nibbling at the lower end of the market and heroic efforts by advocates of free access to information to provide fully reliable systems, but how could anyone beat the sheer power of LEXIS and WESTLAW in the law schools?