Sentences with phrase «desperate efforts by»

Despite desperate efforts by shelter staff and veterinarians, Adonis eventually died as a result of the severe neglect he'd suffered.

The desperate efforts by physicists to integrate it with the other materialist and mechanicist model has nothing to do with truth, but purely ideology.

Sorry, this looks like another desperate effort by the proponents of CAGW to somehow get CAGW back on to the political agenda.

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We cringe before power expressed coercively and arbitrarily; we tremble in the presence of rigid moralism, when we do not react against it in wild and desperate efforts to be ourselves; we can only be puzzled by the kind of absolute essence which is without affects from what goes on around and about it.

In Stage 2, the effort will be to hide the problem from the outside world, coupled with desperate efforts on the part of the family to control the alcoholic's drinking by any and all means.

It is characterised by a refusal to accept this break - up of traditional integration and the relative autonomy of society and politics and a desperate effort to bring them under the tutelage of religion.

It could be viewed as an effort to one - up an ad recently released by Catsimatidis» primary rival, Joe Lhota, that stars Lhota's former boss, ex-NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, saying his one - time deputy is a «great leader» being «wrongly attacked» with «false» and «desperate» attacks launched by his (unnamed) opponent.

This is nothing more than a desperate last minute effort to stave off a landslide by McGrath.

«Recent press reports indicate that you are co-chairing what appears to be a well funded, albeit desperate, effort by Washington's liberal establishment to try yet again to sell the public on something they know they don't want and they know is wrong,» Pataki wrote in an open letter to Daschle, which was provided to reporters via press release.

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox called the effort «a desperate attempt» by Cuomo to refocus the public's attention away from the Percoco trial.

Our client, however, remains undeterred by the desperate efforts of some individuals to intimidate him and bend his will and rights against the constitutional provisions, the framework of Nigeria Police Force Act and the laws of the land.

Whether the Democrats» stepped - up campaign this week in New York reflects growing momentum or a desperate effort to provide themselves some political cover will be played out by Monday, the last scheduled day of the legislative session.

«This baseless complaint is just a desperate, slimy and cowardly effort by John Faso to deflect from his record as a disgraced lobbyist and political bagman,» said David Catalfamo, a Heaney spokesman.

Muoghalu criticised the attempt by the state government to shift the blame on Ngige's supporters, describing it as «another cheap and desperate effort to cover up the heinous crime».

Arriving at their destination in a headlong rush, they must pivot, then blast their retro - rockets in a desperate effort to slow down enough so that they will be lassoed by the gravity of the target planet or moon and pulled into orbit.

Darkly evocative illustrations by Janine Johnston, Steve Lieber, Vince Locke, Bernie Mireault, and Jeff Parker are an integral part of author Jim Ottaviani's meticulously researched account of the Manhattan Project, America's desperate effort to build the first atomic bomb.

And when I am confronted by something I don't want to see about myself, instead of muscling my way through the argument and throwing acid in the face of my loved ones as I sprint from the scene in a desperate effort not to see my own blemishes, I stay.

The right to demand high - speed broadband will be legally recognised by the UK Government after it promised to give homes and businesses faster internet Desperate to find the man of her dreams, sweet and plain Ava tries a last ditch effort, speed dating.

This English listening Web site created by Randall Davis helps ESL / EFL students improve their listening comprehension skills through practice with self Speed dating - Desperate to find the man of her dreams, sweet and plain Ava tries a last ditch effort, speed dating.

In episode 302, examining the hysteria whipped up by the media and politicians to «save» the traditional family structure, a desperate effort to perpetuate a fraudulent concept of mother, father, two kids, a dog and a picket fence.

Unlike Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, In Darkness has no genuinely virtuous motive behind all the things Leopold Socha (played terrifically by Robert Wieckiewicz) does in his efforts to shelter Polish Jews who've taken to the sewers in a final desperate attempt to escape the Nazi imprisonment and slaughter.

(In French, Arabic, Albanian and English) The Uninvited (PG - 13 for violence, disturbing images, mature themes, profanity, sexuality and teen drinking) Remake of Korean horror flick revolving around the desperate efforts of two sisters (Emily Browning and Arielle Kebbel) to warn their father (David Strathairn) about his fiancée's (Elizabeth Banks) sinister agenda after being visited by the ghost of their recently - deceased mother (Maya Massar).

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Eden (Unrated) Romance drama, set in Ireland, revolving around a woman's (Eileen Walsh) desperate effort to save her disintegrating marriage when her husband (Aidan Kelly) of ten years starts hanging out in pubs where he has his head turned by younger women.

X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Starring: Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy Directed by: Bryan Singer The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.

Although English actress Imogen Poots isn't American either, she nearly saves the exercise by bringing a shred of human warmth to her portrayal of a flagrantly unfit mother who drags her 8 - year - old son through a host of illegal schemes in a desperate effort to put a roof over their heads.

Septembers of Shiraz (PG - 13 for mature themes, brutality, torture, disturbing images, partial nudity and brief profanity) Fact - based drama, set in Tehran during the Iranian Revolution of 1979, chronicling the desperate efforts of a Jewish family to flee the country before they might be persecuted by Islamic fundamentalists.

Efforts by school testing folks to stop the opt out steamroller are getting desperate.

«True Love Waits», Radiohead Such desperate subjugation of self, in an effort to pair with another, to mirror love, to feel heard, feels strained and achingly heartbroken when recorded by Thom -LSB-...]

These efforts by DOE to fund IGCC and CCS projects are desperate attempts to validate the EPA's finding that CCS is technically feasible.

Monbiot's efforts to distinguish between good and bad science by fishing around for links on the Internet that hint at conspiracies between energy companies, right wing think tanks and fundamentalist Christians are by far the most desperate.

«What is going on right now is a desperate last - ditch Battle of the Bulge type effort by the forces of darkness, which is relying heavily on the lockstep / groupthink scientific community.»

Apple is even reported to have pushed back iPhone X production by a month in its desperate efforts to integrate Touch ID under the device's display.

It smacks of a desperate, last - ditch effort by the US to save a framework that essentially allows its companies to ignore EU privacy laws with impunity.

Even more distressing is when our efforts to support, discipline, and guide our children through stressful times feel like not enough, and we and our children are left desperate and overwhelmed by their anxieties, sadness, or misbehavior.