Sentences with phrase «feeble efforts»

We're also offering the paperback as part of a special deal with our Steyn vs the Stick Big Climate Special, and with my latest book in our Undocumented and Unsettled special - part of my somewhat feeble efforts to ensure I can continue propping up my end of the Mann vs Steyn lawsuit for the three, four, seven years it's got left to run.

These late and feeble efforts were then resisted by Acton and the university administration and nothing came of them.

``... it may be possible that so many other unforeseen changes in natural life conditions besides getting warmer (or colder) are in store for us that, in hind sight we will look back and chuckle at our feeble efforts to control something so beyond man's control.»

Is it not also given that there is continuous change on Earth, in a lot more ways than temperature, eventually leading to the death of this planet, it's a chaotic work in progress... perhaps it is ridiculous and short sighted to even hope to meaningfully alter any part of the process in the long - run... it may be possible that so many other unforeseen changes in natural life conditions besides getting warmer (or colder) are in store for us that, in hind sight we will look back and chuckle at our feeble efforts to control something so beyond man's control.

Please people, stop breeding, or at least acknowledge that having a child trumps any feeble efforts to «reduce your carbon footprint.»

However, in addition to our possibly feeble efforts to help engage students in feeling powerful, we can certainly emphasize offering choices — the kinds of homework they have to do, the types of presentations they can organize, the essay topics they can respond to, and so on.

As a buddy comedy it is undernourished, making only feeble efforts to draw out the humour of the situation and allowing the characters to flounder as vague sketches of classically comic opposites — Alvin, somewhat repressed and uptight; Lance, libidinous and irresponsible.

Liberal activists were left seething over his feeble efforts to help fellow Democrats.

Mesut Ozil finally looked like his old self for Arsenal with a maestro's performance against Tottenham last week, after being seriously criticized for his feeble efforts earlier this season.

God is perfect, and we can never approach God on our own feeble efforts alone, for example: saying the rosary, 10 acts of service, praying in a certain direction.

In God is our basic trust and confidence, not in ourselves and our feeble efforts.

Finally, the development of a Whiteheadian political philosophy may help to enrich and enliven the rather bland and feeble efforts of contemporary political science.

Smith concludes his remarkable Providentialist account of «the natural course of things» (which by enlisting «interest» can bring good our of evil in a manner impossible through «the feeble efforts of human reason»), with his ringing tribute to his national church:

It is often urged that to listen to good music and good preaching by radio is better than to expose oneself to the halting, feeble efforts of the churches.

Thus many of us declared ourselves to be radicals; but despite a few feeble efforts in the direction of play - acting at social transformation, our radicalism was to be found not in our lives, not even our political lives, but in our heads.

The value of unpacking «divine names» is that they variously inform our feeble efforts to stumble toward the all - encompassing Ineffable.

Even putting aside Canada's feeble efforts compared with the UK with regard to the quantity of aid, the quality of Canada's aid program has increasingly come into question under the current Government.

It seeks to be a reminder that for Whitehead all propositional estimates of aesthetic worth, while they do lend important handles, are merely provisional, merely the intellect's feeble effort to account for what is unaccountable.

Portuguese keeper Ricardo was so confident he would save the Aston Villa striker's attempt, that he removed his gloves before Vassell's feeble effort, before calmly scoring the winning spot - kick to send the hosts into the semi-finals.

How would I have felt if the hundred or so QPR faithful had risen as one at the sight of my feeble effort, punched the air, exhorted my name fanatically to the West London skies, and queued for my autograph late after the game?

My feeble effort to help her understand included an explanation of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as she learned about him last month.

You might think this means that the strategy was ineffective, but there's an added wrinkle: not surprisingly, the «low» group managed a much feebler effort in their interval sessions (since they were so depleted), but still managed to improve by the same amount on the time trial.

Not exact matches

These posts are my feeble my feeble effort to ask Christians to treat LGBTQs with love.

But in Spain and Portugal such numerically feeble Protestant groups as emerged arose out of missionary effort from other countries.

Five minutes later and we had the first real opportunity of the match when Stuttgart's Serbian wide man Filip Kostic cut in from the right hand touchline evading a couple of feeble challenges before firing in an effort which was comfortably saved by Hertha's keeper Thomas Kraft.

The next opportunity was to Samuel Tetteh who be challenging for the man of the match but his effort was very feeble and goalkeeper in post for Rwanda gathered.

Then, in May, de Blasio brokered a last - minute Working Families Party endorsement of the governor's reelection; Cuomo spent the fall campaign season reneging on his end of the bargain, providing feeble support for the Democratic effort to win a State Senate majority.

In August, Rosetta arrived at 67P, and scientists began a frantic effort to map the feeble gravity of the comet's mountain - sized nucleus even as they searched for boulder - free, level landing terrains.

If a feeble romp like this can keep Sandler famous and encourage a new generation to discover and enjoy his superior past efforts, then some good has been done.

Certainly, the history of school accountability and efforts to improve low - performing schools under IASA would justify such suspicions, and some examples of what schools are doing in response to NCLB restructuring sound very feeble.

Zee News: The global output of heat - trapping carbon dioxide jumped by the biggest amount on record, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated, a sign of how feeble the world's efforts are at slowing man - made global warming.

In the Appeal decision of Shigehiro v Shigehiro, 2017 ABCA 392, a husband appealed the failure of the trial judge to find his ex wife could earn more as a waitress and server although the Trial Judge found her efforts to get work feeble.