Sentences with phrase «earnest efforts»

Blaming often leads to defensiveness (may be one contributing factor to rejected parents earnest efforts — especially those rejected without cause).

Developing confidence in your child, by celebrating successes as well as all their earnest efforts of accomplishments.

Counseling is a unique opportunity to confront the overwhelming issues that can block one's most earnest efforts to «do it differently this time».

It's frustrating because, despite your earnest efforts, requests, and pleadings, you can't seem to make a breakthrough to accomplish your goals.

In your earnest efforts to do what is right for your children, you may be inadvertently creating problems; under Connecticut law, districts are generally required to incorporate test results into graduation requirements.

But then I've also been thinking about the earnest efforts of Chicago parents, including the Raise Your Hand and 19th Ward Parents groups, fighting CPS's proposed unfunded, one - size - fits - all Longer Day, They have been politely but firmly asking to be heard and to have their reasonable questions answered about what exactly will be happening during this longer day, only to be met with arrogance and nonsense.

Many earnest efforts to foster school choice, blended learning, and differentiated instruction have nibbled away at the edges of this arrangement, but it's staggeringly durable.

Individual schools may not reflect the demography of their communities, but most make earnest efforts to create a diverse applicant pool.

Despite 15 years of earnest efforts to improve public schools and raise student achievement, states haven't made much progress.

Still, the earnest efforts of Adam Scott and company are probably enough to warrant a single look from those who watch a lot of new movies.

Stress, a busy lifestyle and lack of sleep are sabotaging your earnest efforts.

84 The task these ministers set before themselves, as they readily admitted, was far beyond their own competency to perform and it demanded not only the most earnest efforts to improve their gifts and the most rigorous budgeting of their time but a constant dependence upon God for success.

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.

When I consider my own earnest efforts to «clean up» the weddings in which I participate — the counseling, the rigid liturgical rules, the list of proscribed music — I sometimes wonder if these are more for than for the bride and groom.

Despite my earnest efforts to make sessions on the sacraments, church history, the Bible, ethics and...

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.

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.

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.

An earnest effort over coming quarters can, of course, forestall any rise in inflation.

Only an earnest effort to find the truth can promote real understanding and mutual respect.

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.

Not by earnest effort, but by trusting him do we approach him.

I am really making an earnest effort to be a little bit more minimalist these days!

They talk often on the phone Schumer said and make an earnest effort to work in a bipartisan effort.

«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.

However, with earnest effort and patience, you can get a fling on the website.

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

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.

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?

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.

And yet, whilst the value of the inane antics depicted will depend on the viewer's threshold for tired toilet humour, simple sight gags and jokes about electronic methods of communication, the film's quest to garner cheap laughs eclipses any earnest effort to warm hearts or convey a suitably sentimental message about cherishing the old whilst accepting the new.

His passion for directing shines through, and he's really giving and earnest effort.

by Sarah Ward «the film's quest to garner cheap laughs eclipses any earnest effort to warm hearts or convey a suitably sentimental message about cherishing the old whilst accepting the new.»

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.

The reporting about Lakewood belies any earnest effort to see that funding is equitably used for student services.

It was an earnest effort to help high - school teachers understand what students should learn, but content-wise it was pretty awful.

However, this time around Jeep has made a more earnest effort to turn the Grand Cherokee into a viable alternative to the Wrangler when venturing out where the pavement ends, while also retaining the livability of a typical SUV.

We look forward to that production Audi e-Tron, as it appears to be an earnest effort to build an exciting all - electric sports car for driving enthusiasts.

Pokemon - Amie is the often - publicized virtual pet - like feature that lets you interact directly with your Pokemon in an earnest effort to make the Pokemon universe feel that much more organic.

Candela also reserves the right to reproduce the work in support of said exhibitions and will make an earnest effort to notify photographers when such reproductions occur and provide resulting tear sheets when possible.

Their combination of humble materials and earnest effort is all the more touching for being rough around the edges.

I did make an earnest effort to read some of the site information that some people graciously posted.

It is something that, despite a lot of earnest effort, we have not been able to close, and it is going to take more than what we thought was possible in terms of our capabilities, and bandwidth, and means, to accomplish change.

Prove to the hiring professional that you made an earnest effort, that you've read the job description and that your resume and cover letter reflects the role requirements.