Sentences with phrase «as valiant an effort»

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However, while many business owners are making valiant attempts to position themselves as thought leaders, their efforts often fall short because of one key reason: credibility (or lack thereof).

Everyone feels the need to be recognized as an individual or member of a group and to feel a sense of achievement for work well done or even for a valiant effort.

Others, like the ancient Pharisees, prompted by equally noble motives, are making valiant efforts to keep the church structures buoyant and active by winning converts from the lost world as occasion offers.

When Pope Francis arrives in America next month, he will undoubtedly find a very different country than did Paul VI, John Paul II, or Benedict XVI.In the past decade, the culture of death has gained momentum (even as pro-life marches and valiant efforts to chip away at it continue), the sexual....

Not quite as good as Jerome Simpson's flip with the Bengals, but this was a valiant effort by Bears wide receiver Earl Bennett to somersault in for the score.

Pompey were valiant in their efforts last weekend though as they nearly halted Aston Villa's push for European football.

Remember to praise your child for a job well done, as well as for putting forth a valiant effort.

However, despite the valiant efforts of left Rawlsians to press down hard on pre-distribution and force it to yield some radical implications (O'Neill and Williamson, 2012; Doron, 2012), in Miliband's formulation it seems a weak reed, relying on labour market interventions such as education and training to alter distributional outcomes.

The passage also aptly described the situation faced by the scientists at BP, such as vice president of engineering Paul Tooms or vice president and engineer Richard Lynch, who seemed incapable of determining how much oil was actually flowing and figuring out how to stop it despite valiant efforts.

Despite a warmly interacting cast that includes Jennifer Ehle as Emily's sister and Keith Carradine as her lion - maned, lionized father, and a valiant effort on the part of Nixon and Davies to externalize the poet's inner demons in emotional, high - tension scenes, the film can't escape an underlying static quality that extinguishes the flame before it can get burning.

And for the Mad Titan's part, Infinity War offers a valiant effort to develop his character so as not to fall into the underdeveloped Marvel villain trap.

It was a valiant effort, but as Fraser might say, it was «doomed» to fail.

At least Bates, handed the plum role of a loud - mouthed lesbian arsonist, makes a valiant effort at cementing Tammy as some kind of future camp novelty; surely no one can claim the world is worse off now that footage exists of Bates conducting a Viking funeral for a jet ski.

Consider this valiant effort to transcribe Goldblum's Goldblumisms, taken from Independence Day: Crucible, a novel that serves as a prequel to Independence Day: Resurgence.

In To the Bone, there is a valiant effort to portray thinness accurately, but the movie is still missing the realistic portrayal of «less - desirable» side - effects of eating disorders, such as hair thinning from anorexia or acid - eroded teeth from chronic vomiting.

And is it not worsening in our schools — despite the valiant efforts of the Common Core, the AP program, and others to push students to seek actual evidence in original texts rather than just saying what they think about something — as contemporary liberalism pushes them hard to embrace and amplify what historians call «presentism»?

She has up days and down days, as anyone would expect, but even though she will never again have an absolutely perfect day, she continues to make a valiant effort to live her life to the fullest.

B&N did make a valiant effort, for a while, but they never got past the idea of the Nook as free money and weren't willing to invest in a support infrastructure for their readers or a comprehensive e-book catalog.

If you neither knew, nor should have known about it before discovering the mold, and made a valiant effort to fix the problem as soon as possible, than the endorsement mentioned earlier will provide some coverage for your personal property.

If it had not been for its valiant effort in saving as many animals as it could, the death toll would have been even higher.

The modern greyhound is more popular as a racing dog then as a show dog, but valiant efforts by greyhound charities to raise the profile of the breed as a pet has meant that increasing numbers of ex-racing greyhounds find their way into the comfort of home life and happily swap the racetrack for a comfy sofa.

I will applaud Scavengers Studios for their valiant effort, as it is a good one.

A few of these are broken with no relation to the episode at hand, but often enough the show makes a valiant effort to actually present a suitable moral in the story, such as «don't judge a person by their appearance, cause they might be secretly an interpol agent.»

In a valiant effort to once again reclaim Chicago's glory as a city that can host a world class art fair, EXPO delivered on all fronts.»

But will the seas be able to continue with those valiant efforts, as the global warming proceeds?

COPRAC's valiant effort to give guidance to attorneys using social media also highlights the difficulty of regulating its use, as it is a very fine line COPRAC is drawing between posts that are and are not advertising.

If you neither knew, nor should have known about it before discovering the mold, and made a valiant effort to fix the problem as soon as possible, than the endorsement mentioned earlier will provide some coverage for your personal property.

Well, I think this article was a valiant effort to defend stereotyping as how some recruiters work through resumes.

Notwithstanding TREB's valiant efforts, what does the real estate industry have to gag on, as a result of the vacuum created as a result of the virtual absence of leadership (CREA) in a national sense.

Most passengers looked at us with squinted eyes (the «evil eye» as I like to call it), but as we neared our seats the choir students broke out into cheers and clapping for our valiant and successful effort.