The phrase
"earnest effort" means giving our best and putting in sincere and genuine hard work towards achieving something.
Full definition
Counseling is a unique opportunity to confront the overwhelming issues that can block one's
most earnest efforts to «do it differently this time».
Individual schools may not reflect the demography of their communities, but most
make earnest efforts to create a diverse applicant pool.
By the time he left office, however,
despite earnest efforts in the name of education reform, Schmoke was seen as part of the steady decline of the Baltimore Public Schools.
Before DA Walters follows through on his promise to ruin the lives of his co-defendants, too, let's just pray that CBS» 60 Minutes and the rest of the mainstream media intervene to question Walters» motivations and embark on
as earnest an effort to make mincemeat of his career as they did to disgraced Durham DA Mike Nufong for his overzealous prosecution of the Duke Lacrosse case.
Jackman's
earnest effort rescues most of his clunkiest lines, and child actor Dakota Goyo has a precocious edge as Max.
Even
after earnest effort, adults could still get lost among the wands and swords, the lockets, diadems, rings, and whatnot, but the endless, flowing talk — of curses, potions, prophecies, and destinies — was gibberish so confident and good - humored that it was impossible to ridicule.
Even though it never breaches those depths of remarkable filmmaking, this optimistic and
entirely earnest effort to recount a most unlikely rescue mission is still well worth watching.
From the clinical isolation of Latrobe's rattlesnake to the contrived illusionism of Roesen's flowers, the most
earnest efforts toward realism in our still - life painting seem to have pushed us further from a truthful engagement with nature.
Blaming often leads to defensiveness (may be one contributing factor to rejected
parents earnest efforts — especially those rejected without cause).
The Spirit shows the way, but in such diverse degrees that we are all liars even in our
most earnest efforts to point to the truth.
That fulfillment can only be guided by true passion and
an earnest effort and that's most certainly reflected in the wines produced by family operations.
Like a lot of the best work you see at Cannes, it was
an earnest effort to erase the distinction between art and science in the honest pursuit of results.
The PC dynasty's final budget in March 2015 did propose a bad - medicine combination of modest budget cuts and assorted tax hikes —
earnest efforts to bail Alberta out of chronic deficits, and exactly the sort of unpalatable budget a shrewd premier releases after an election, not before one.
An earnest effort over coming quarters can, of course, forestall any rise in inflation.
Despite
my earnest efforts to make sessions on the sacraments, church history, the Bible, ethics and beliefs interesting, the last thing on earth these youth wanted was to be put through two more hours of school every Thursday during Lent.
Only
an earnest effort to find the truth can promote real understanding and mutual respect.
Despite
my earnest efforts to make sessions on the sacraments, church history, the Bible, ethics and...
Therefore, our Christian attitude toward whatever is evil is a firm rejection of it and
an earnest effort against it, to the end that it shall be overcome, negated, removed from the world or transformed into an occasion for good to emerge.
Later on, most of those individuals who learned that they were actually genetic males wished to reconstitute their lives as males (some even asked for surgical reconstruction and male hormone replacement)-- and all this despite
the earnest efforts by their parents to treat them as girls.
Patrick's «real divide» essay is
an earnest effort at «branding,» one that preaches well to the converted.
Not by
earnest effort, but by trusting him do we approach him.
If a marriage can not be healed or moved toward satisfying fulfillment — either because of the recalcitrance of one of the partners, or because of the inability of the couple despite
their earnest efforts — then other courses may be searched out.
I am really making
an earnest effort to be a little bit more minimalist these days!
He will be missed and we will remember
his earnest efforts to help others in the community and his willingness to share his knowledge on reducing food losses with his students and colleagues.
It is now becoming a pattern for Paladino to make serious charges without
any earnest effort to substantiate them.
«We view this request to suspend the current strike as
an earnest effort on behalf of the city, its children and its workers.»
When women put
an earnest effort into Step 1 of The Gottfried Protocol, they find most of their symptoms of hormone imbalance disappear.
When women put
an earnest effort into Step 1 of The Gottfried Protocol — and implement a customized food plan; specific supplements that include missing vitamins, minerals, and amino acids; and targeted exercise — they find most of their symptoms of hormone imbalance disappear.
Stress, a busy lifestyle and lack of sleep are sabotaging
your earnest efforts.
We live in a time when so many of us are discovering our deep heart's desire to do good work in the world and make a living from
our earnest efforts.
Instead, the other person is just awkwardly trying to bond with you, in a strange way, but still
an earnest effort.
This low - key, tightly wound drama may tread familiar waters and expend some of its nuance and grit for the sake of a misguided twist in the final act, but it's
an earnest effort fuelled by two brutally sincere performances by Aaron Paul and
This low - key, tightly wound drama may tread familiar waters and expend some of its nuance and grit for the sake of a misguided twist in the final act, but it's
an earnest effort fuelled by two brutally sincere performances by Aaron Paul and an absolutely heartbreaking Josh ****
Though the bold treatment of homoerotic love in Mexican helmer Julian Hernandez's feature bow Broken Sky is sure to grab attention, it doesn't take long before the picture's torturously slow pace turns
an earnest effort into a tedious aesthetic exercise.
However, the film is very, very forgettable just because it becomes tedious after awhile, despite Washington's
earnest effort to make it somewhat respectable - it is just a downright bore.
This may seem like a piddling quibble, but if you want women to trust that you have made
an earnest effort to dissect a woman's psyche, don't just assume you know the details.
The film does seem to make
an earnest effort to understand and celebrate long - distance relationships, with the feeling that first - hand experience has shaped the script.
Listen, this biopic basically revolves around Jackie's
earnest effort to turn Herman into a cause célèbre, but it carefully tiptoes around the more compelling elephant in the tiny cell, namely, whether there's a romantic aspect to their relationship?
The dastardly doings in the desert might pass muster, as might Cole's dastardly doings with fellow businessmen and Rebecca, but the comedy with these paradigms is a disaster, despite Hammer's
earnest efforts and Depp's typically eccentric ones.
In his latest film, the 65 - year - old director retraces his postcollegiate wanderjahrs in France jobbing for a wedding photographer, in
an earnest effort to understand his son Adrian, a headstrong, restless creative type and stunt skier.