Sentences with phrase «desperate efforts of»

Furthermore, he set the tone for reading Giacometti's art as an agonized meditation on the artist's struggle to give form to fleeting perceptions and as the desperate efforts of the isolated if not alienated individual struggling to make a place for himself or herself in an indifferent if not hostile world.

Heck, if not for the desperate efforts of publishers, Hardcover would have an even smaller market share than it already does.

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.

(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).

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.

When the State Kills is the model for such an approach, with fascinating and accessible chapters on such topics as the never - ending quest for «painless» executions, the role of and pressures on the jury in capital cases, the portrayal of executions in contemporary films, and the increasingly desperate efforts of death - penalty lawyers to ensure that those who are condemned to die have received something approximating fair treatment under the law.

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But to critics it smacks of a possibly desperate effort to dodge payday lending laws that restrict what it can charge.

Noting that publishers are «desperate,» Oliver mocked the recent rebranding efforts of Tribune Publishing, which owns the Los Angeles Times, Orlando Sentinel, and Chicago Tribune.

The company has taken steps to rehabilitate its image, but some of these efforts — such as a puppy delivery service and other stunts — have been so over-the-top as to seem laughably desperate.

Desperate times call for desperate measures,» says Natalie Cilurzo, co-owner of Russian River Brewery, behind Pliny the Younger and a fundraising effort among local beDesperate times call for desperate measures,» says Natalie Cilurzo, co-owner of Russian River Brewery, behind Pliny the Younger and a fundraising effort among local bedesperate measures,» says Natalie Cilurzo, co-owner of Russian River Brewery, behind Pliny the Younger and a fundraising effort among local beermakers.

«In each and every effort, Compassion continues to share the love of Christ with Haitians in such desperate need of it.»

Rainer's book strikes some of us as a rather obvious and almost desperate effort to preserve the institution, especially the part about signing pledges that many people will not keep.

Suffer as we must in a time that has already so ravaged the Christian spirit, we must resist the supreme temptation of despair and renounce every desperate effort to identify a broken and empty humanity as the sole fruit of grace.

The international Church was largely unaware of the desperate plight of the once - strong Christian community, although some efforts bore fruit.

Despite elements of evasion, panic, scapegoating, and other desperate efforts to wriggle out of their bad fix, the bishops will not get off scot free.

From the point of view of civilization the question of the church seems often to be regarded as that of an institution which has failed to adjust itself to the world and which is making desperate efforts to overcome its maladjustments.

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.

Many mainstream churches are dying and their desperate efforts to evangelize for the sake of growing the institution rather than caring for the souls themselves is the reason they are dying.

All authentic religious experience implies a desperate effort to disclose the foundation of things, the ultimate reality.

His proposal of an inner church fellowship, which reminds one of the plan that Luther had entertained and quickly rejected at the beginning of the Reformation, represented a final, even desperate, effort to obtain for a minority in the church what he had hoped to realize on behalf of the whole community.

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's just incredibly petty and desperate to claim that 1 goal that you didn't even make any sort of effort into.

His was a desperate effort to prove that, despite his years (32 or more) and reputation (not of the highest), Willie still was good enough to rate the boxing license New York recently denied him.

Cech (top keeper, leader, has the positive attitude of a winner) Bellerin (no fear, wants to win), Gabriel (clearly desperate to succeed, wants to win), Koz (100 % gunner, plays with 100 % conviction), Montreal (gives 110 % effort, totally reliable).

While that's all positive and are steps in the right direction, the lack of trophies has made them an easy target, and that also arguably has a negative impact on keeping their best players who will be desperate to secure silverware to have something to show for their efforts.

When Wenger made absolutely no effort to get him, who was someone who would fit in with being an ideal team member for Wenger, as well playing in a position in which we are in desperate need of reinforcement, I feared the worst for the rest of the transfer window.

But fortunately for Alabama, the breakdown of Saban's machine designed to digest opponents over 60 minutes of grinding football sparked a confusion that produced something much more captivating and memorable: A team of outrageously good individual players playing catch - up on offense, desperate, intense effort on defense, and a sideline so emotional that Mekhi Brown took his on - field tussling with Georgia to his teammates and coaches.

It really is getting beyond the joke for fans and for a club which is desperate to break into the top four after a couple of close shave efforts, they need to be strengthening not selling the few stars they have to the highest bidder.

It demonstrates a disturbing willingness to ignore reality in a desperate effort to justify an uneducated and obviously inaccurate system of belief.

We can become even more desperate to obliterate the parts of ourselves that we believe make us inadequate, redoubling our efforts to shame those parts into submission.

The food program at Washington Jesuit Academy I described over the last three days not only outlined the great lengths some schools are going to to incorporate fresh, local ingredients in their meals, but also the inspiring story of D.C. Central Kitchen's efforts to use its culinary program to change the lives of people desperate for a second chance.

No doubt these companies are becoming desperate, as breastfeeding rates finally start to increase in the USA in spite of all their efforts to subvert it.

According to John Boadu, such wild allegation is part of his desperate effort to seek the attention of his disgruntled party members seeking to vote him out.

Although South Sudan has fervently sought to deny all incidents of inter-ethnic violence in a desperate effort to maintain the myth of a coherent and unified South Sudanese identity, reports of such confrontations have continued to rise.

Edward Mangano's attorney, Kevin Keating of Garden City, said in a statement, «The release of Singh's plea confirms what we all knew — a man who faces decades in prison for his own vast and hidden criminality struck a cooperation deal, which stunningly included his release on bail, in a desperate effort to save himself.

«The release of Singh's plea confirms what we all knew — a man who faces decades in prison for his own vast and hidden criminality struck a cooperation deal... in a desperate effort to save himself,» said Mangano's attorney, Kevin Keating of Garden City.

Mr. Tetteh, who was speaking to the Ghana News Agency in Accra, said since Dr. Rawlings decided to join politics, some people are bent to frustrate her and the efforts to link her to the political heritage of her parents, is one of the desperate attempts.

FG issues security alert on planned Boko Haram abductions for ransom The Federal Government on Friday issued a security alert that Boko Haram terrorists were planning another sensational abduction of pupils / students or foreigners in a desperate effort to raise funds through ransom.

A post on his Facebook page said: «He will be missed especially during this period in our nation when we need unity of purpose and when we have a desperate need for statesmen and women to stop forward and pull all our efforts in the same direction.»

With frustrated MPs threatening to defect across the political spectrum, Cooper's efforts become directed towards desperate gambles and a measure of last minute attempts in order to save the party he loves.

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.

Michael Tager attributes the scandals not to Koch's failures but to the steadily declining power of the Democratic machine and its bosses» desperate efforts to reverse the collapse.

Latino elected leaders joined liberal anti-charter school activists on the steps of City Hall to demand that Success Academy Charter Schools return an $ 8.5 million donation from hedge fund manager John Paulson because of his role in the Puerto Rican debt crisis — where the government is slashing education spending in a desperate effort to balance its books... [Click here to read more]

Efforts to water down regulation in this area may create opportunities for some individuals to prey on the hopes of desperate patients.»

But anyone who reads Foundations of Computer Science will realise that using C + + to make a large program work reliably after it has developed problems is a desperate measure; reading Interactive System Design would instead make sure you programmed the right thing sooner, and hence relied a lot less on reusing other programmers» possibly bodged efforts.

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.

If California hopes to prevent further extinctions of native species of endangered fish, the state should abandon efforts to take desperate measures to save individual species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and instead look to bolster entire aquatic ecosystems.

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.