Sentences with phrase «heroic efforts by»

There are smaller systems nibbling at the lower end of the market and heroic efforts by advocates of free access to information to provide fully reliable systems, but how could anyone beat the sheer power of LEXIS and WESTLAW in the law schools?

Weeks of heroic efforts by thousands of firefighters have contained this megafire by only 37 percent to date.

I see dogs that hold onto extra pounds despite heroic efforts by their owners to keep them trim, and starkly skinny cats that scarf down huge fat — and protein — laden meals every day.

It took heroic efforts by a new manager to keep Dempster from going under, and even then, it was not an absolute home run.

Heroic efforts by excellent educators can only make a dent.

I repeatedly found myself writing in the margins, «Wow,» either because of the heroic efforts by teachers and staffers or because of the obstacles facing their students....

Institute noted in their recent report on targeted teaching, that «Despite heroic efforts by many teachers, our most advanced students are not adequately stretched while our least advanced are not properly supported.

«Because of the heroic effort by Brown and her family, public schools are the most diverse in history.

Our snow tires pull 0.30 lateral g, the all - seasons manage 0.28 g and the summer tires produce a pitiful 0.15 g despite a heroic effort by our shivering hot shoe.

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This is the sign of a noble heart — to aim at high things, measuring one's effort, not by one's own strength, but by the strength of one's nature, and to envisage enterprises beyond the accomplishment even of those equipped with heroic courage.»

Third, we can liken the marvelous works to which Jesus called the Twelve to the heroic, superhuman efforts made by individual Christians to combat the powers of death, disease, and evil.

On the contrary, during the decade after the World War heroic efforts were made to maintain intercourse by organizational devices of one kind and another.

Isn't the committment of a Gandhi / MLK (paid for by their life) to non-violence the reason we call their efforts remarkable and heroic or shld we take up arms to crush the evil that they fought against.

Donated by the family of late campaigner Anne Williams, whose son Kevin died in the tragedy, the commemorative piece recognises the heroic efforts of fans during the rescue operation on April 15, 1989 and the fight for justice that followed.

Facilities such as CERN and ITER are governed by international treaties, which required heroic efforts of diplomacy to put together.

Conservationists have, through heroic efforts, wrestled species such as the Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx), the black - footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) and the California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) back from the brink of extinction by bringing all the remaining animals together, using artificial insemination to spread sperm and maximize genetic diversity, and keeping offspring alive through round - the - clock husbandry.

The heroic effort drained Hall of all he got and he had to be helped by his supporting team to get back on his feet after the lift.

In Marabel and the Book of Fate, Marabel is forced to fight trolls, giants, and fairies in a (s) heroic effort to save her brother, who has been kidnapped by an evil queen.

Nor will another trending topic of drug addiction hurt the chances of Heroin (e), which not only deals forcefully with the much talked - about opioid crisis, but also does it by focusing on the heroic efforts of three women leading the charge in West Virginia.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening January 2, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Defiance (R for violence and profanity) Oscar - winner Edward Zwick (for Shakespeare in Love) directs this harrowing tale of survival, set in occupied Poland during World War II, recounting the heroic efforts of three brothers (Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell) who escape into the forest where they join forces with Russian resistance fighters to save over 1,000 fellow Jews from the Nazis.

Set in the deep south during World War II, the quiet, intimate romance plumbs the hideous effects of racial prejudice and honors heroic efforts — all made by women — to make things right.

The article, by Jonathan Mahler, was about the heroic efforts of Ramón González, the principal of M.S. 223, a public middle school in the South Bronx, to make his school a place where his young charges can get a decent education and thus, perhaps, a better life.

Despite intense funding, facilities and authorizing challenges faced by charter schools, heroic efforts are being made by charter leaders, teachers and staff to expand, replicate and open new schools to meet the unrelenting parent demand for better educational options for their children.

It's a story of collaboration across the political aisle, heroic efforts and millions of dollars spent by state governments, and dogged researchers uncovering new insights that arguably changed the lives of tens of thousands of young people.

Powerful illustrations illuminate a little - known aspect of World War II resistance: the heroic Muslim effort to orchestrate the escape of Jews who were aggressively pursued by Nazis during the four - year occupation of Paris.

The significance of the above calculations is that we can get an enormous bang for the buck and make a significant impact on shelter populations by intelligent targeting of spay / neuter services upstream of the shelter and before homeless pets clog those shelters and require heroic efforts on the part of shelter directors and the rescue community.

«The bravery and untiring efforts displayed by each of the Search and Rescue (SAR) dogs at the World Trade Center disaster site are truly heroic and exemplify the courageous hearts of ProHeart Heroes.

Nevertheless, ample multiplayer modes (including co-op and split - screen mode, an apparently heroic effort in this day and age) complete a package that you really ought to have purchased by now.

Thanks to over a century of tireless efforts by heroic avant - garde artists and their supporters, no meaningful distinction exists today between contemporary artworks and the ordinary objects that surround them.

Houstonians were especially lucky to see two shows made possible by the heroic efforts of a dedicated few --

If there are to be Youtube Japanese propaganda videos given press here, then I would urge that it be balanced within the same post by any of the many YouTube videos of Sea Shepherd's brave and heroic efforts on all of our behalf, as they carry out their thankless struggle to save lives where no others alive will lift a finger to help.

People have carried the most amazing things by bike, and we at TreeHugger have helped publicize their sometimes heroic efforts to make two wheels hauls tons of goods.

The standard economic solution proposed by policy - makers is to import more job and income opportunities, but despite the heroic mining efforts over fifty years, 50 % of Crows are unemployed and poverty remains high.

So by all means, let us show our appreciation for the heroic efforts of single parents by doing away with litigation and replacing «single» with «shared.»