Sentences with phrase «at great personal cost»

Whether cut backs, bankruptcy, mergers and / or acquisitions, these decisions can come at great personal cost not only to one's reputation but financially as well.

When someone with such a dramatically different worldview recognized and upheld at great personal cost the belief that all lives are indeed created equal, I saw the power of truth at work.

If you like movies about unlikely heroes who make good, even at great personal cost, then Bad Day for the Cut is sure to please.

Such cultural beliefs reify parent grief and parent efforts to normalise their child, often at great personal cost [53, 54, 55, 56].

Even now, more than ten years later, I remain awed by their valiant struggle, mounted at great personal cost: drained finances, lost privacy, media scorn, impugned motives, death threats — and eventually Bob's death, which the family believes was caused by the stress of watching helplessly as his daughter died by court order.

I am often asked by pro-life activists — brave and often heroic souls who have for years and at great personal cost borne faithful witness to the Church's teaching — and frequently they ask with tears: «Why doesn't the bishop do something?»

According to an article by Post in eJournal USA, Palestinian suicide bomb commanders have told their recruits: «You have a worthless life ahead of you, you can do something significant with your life, you will be enrolled in the hall of martyrs...» The bombers themselves then embrace the larger aims of their mission at great personal cost.

Lili Taylor, in a much larger role than she had last season, plays Taylor's mother, Anne Blaine, who works as a restaurant manager and sent her son to Leland at great personal cost.

Gradually Maud is pulled into the suffrage movement at great personal cost, and joins a brilliant chemist Edith Ellyn (Helena Bonham Carter), as they band together to do battle with an increasingly brutal state personified by the politicians who hear them out and do nothing, and the police who target and imprison them.

Jacob is twice presented with opportunities to potentially save President Lincoln's life, each time at great personal cost.

Producer Martin Durkin withheld release of the DVD at great personal cost until a minor error was corrected.

Under investigation The work was carried out by the directors at great personal cost — they worked extremely long days on the investigation and in trying to keep Excel afloat.

This work came at a great personal cost and risk for Gazaryan, yet he refused to abandon his environmental activism.

«Believers» may buy that theological bullshit and pious drivel, but people of faith will always call them out often at great personal cost.

But, he tells Heather Tomlinson, it came at a great personal cost.

Thank you for having the tenacity to keep going with this... at great personal cost.

«Another, more charitable interpretation, suggested to us by a rather excitable lawyer, is that the Samaritan came down from above, had compassion, raised a man up, rescued him at great personal cost, suffered as his servant, paid a debt when the man had no resources of his own and promised to return and address any outstanding problems.

The K - 12 Giraffe Heroes Program provides a free lesson that opens students eyes to the true heroes of our world — people who pursue just causes, often at great personal cost and risk.

When reality started setting in, to disagree or refuse an order was at great personal cost to yourself and your family.

Narrated in her utterly captivating prose style and with exquisite insight, humor, empathy, nuance, and at great personal cost, Norah uses her intimate firsthand experience to explore the many remarkable mysteries of gender identity as well as who men are apart from and in relation to women.

While many report their caring experience as positive and rewarding, it is also evident that for some, the provision of care comes at great personal cost and sacrifice and there are high levels of unmet needs, including the need for more information, knowledge and support from health practitioners.