Sentences with phrase «desperate efforts on»

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.

I suspect a mess of service based on many people's experiences and a desperate effort on the part of some representatives of this company to post some messages that try to calm people.

Not exact matches

The consequence might well have been a greater concentration than ever on our desperate effort to avoid personal death no matter what happens to others.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This information following up on Nunes memo makes clear how desperate and untruthful that effort to undermine Mueller has been!

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.

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.»

«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.

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]

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».

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.

One might go so far as to assert that the entertainment industry's efforts to manipulate and numb those who consume its products, its relentless commitment to leaving reality unexplored, on the one hand, and the widespread commission of desperate, violent, anti-social acts (serial killings, school shootings, workplace violence), on the other, are entirely comprehensible at the very least as complementary phenomena.

The film is about the same kind of social overcompensation that virtually any other mainstream comedy is about, but it feels comfortable with this, not desperate to pile on the raunchy bells and whistles in an effort to feel more current.

Desperate to cash - in on the success of the previous film, studios churn out follow - up flicks that too often contain a mere percentage of the thought and effort invested in the original.

Early on, we see him at breakfast, refusing — despite her desperate efforts — to give his attention to a young woman named Johanna (Camilla Rutherford, her extraordinary eyes blazing with anxiety).

The new movie, X-Men: Days of Future Past centers on the X-Men as they 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.

Was there a desperate but ultimately ineffective behind the scenes effort to improve Harkin - Enzi from the Duncan folks and the White House, or do they want any bill they can get, or are they just hoping that this all falls apart on the Senate floor and in the House so that they can do the waiver thing?

Well, nothing except the pant - soiling moment on the exit of O'Rouge that has me reaching for several armfuls of right lock in a desperate effort to save the car, the magazine and, ultimately, my skin.

The Devil You Know takes readers on a rollercoaster ride through Evie's desperate efforts to rid herself of the childhood horrors that have followed her into adulthood.

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.

They are disgusted that the wealthiest nation on Earth is undermining their desperate efforts to get the help they need to survive a problem they didn't even create (an American emits many times what they do into the air).

Political battles between outlying boroughs and suburbs — where car culture is stronger — and city planners desperate to unclog streets could make New York's congestion - pricing effort drag on a good while longer.

The conclusion is clear enough: there's no inquiry going on there, no effort to find out what's happening, just a desperate attempt to avoid some undesirable conclusions.

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.»

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

We seem to be suffering from some kind of mass hysteria similar to the Y2K phenominom resulting in mostly misguided efforts like spending so much time on this issue and so much money on so many other desperate endevours which will almost surely result in many unintended negative consequences while doing almost nothing to actually accomplish the intended result.

But back at the office, they'd heave a sigh of relief about not having to aggregate and manage a half dozen small clients for an appeal (as I often do to make appeals and federal court cases affordable) or fritter away valuable billable time blogging or playing on Twitter in a desperate effort to compensate for the kind of credibility and connections that biglaw automatically confers.

However, in an insecure or disorganized attachment relationship, their attachment behavior may need to be turned on constantly in a desperate effort for reassurance that is very hard to get.