Sentences with phrase «heroic efforts of»

I have the deepest respect and admiration for the heroic efforts of raising their children most of my parents are making.

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.»

I realize the the acts of three firms that received money for work held out as pro bono shouldn't taint the heroic efforts of the other 50 firms which did indeed work at no cost and at least, in my mind, they don't.

While I appreciate the heroic efforts of lawyers like Andre who devote their time (and let's not kid ourselves: Supreme Court litigation is time and labor intensive) at no charge to bringing cases to the Supreme Court, let's not forget that there's a need for resources at the lower level.

Narcissus and Climate change, the heroic efforts of Prometheus giving electricity to the Piggooses, or the Hamelin Piper leading the herd towards Medusa mix realities, mythologies and, often, the rules of one game with that of another to create scenes without resolution or a set message.

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

We and our families are safe, and fortunately the Inn and town of Calistoga have not been damaged, thanks to the heroic efforts of firefighters and first responders.

Through the heroic efforts of Mdm Bennert, Dr. Rickertt and a few others the Löwchen began to spread throughout the world.

Were it not for the heroic efforts of Best Friends Animal Society and a tireless team of volunteers (local and from across the country), nearly all of those cats would have died.

THINK ABOUT THIS — Not one feral cat or kitten would be trapped, neutered, vaccinated, spayed or cared for without the heroic efforts of a feral cat caretaker.

The heroic efforts of Chilly, a 3 year - old English bulldog mix from Mineral, Va., have earned her The Humane Society of the United State» Pets of Valor Award.

That was why Father Leonard, my history teacher, was spending one last class period droning on about World War II and the heroic efforts of General Henry M. Lowery to alert America to the dangers of Adolf Hitler and Nazism.

Through the heroic efforts of a new management team, some of those companies have even succeeded in resuscitating themselves and living on in the shadow of their former stature.

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.

None of this, of course, is to downplay the extraordinary and often heroic efforts of many single mothers to help their children avert negative consequences.

But the horrible attack also made Americans pause to recognize the daily heroic efforts of our public servants — including our firefighters, police officers, transit workers, and teachers!

This week, it's «City of Ghosts,» providing an apt bookend chronicling the heroic efforts of citizen journalists in Raqqa, Syria, as they attempt to document the carnage that the Islamic State has wreaked on their once - cosmopolitan city.

The new story follows the heroic efforts of the crypto - zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god - sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three - headed King Ghidorah.

His latest documentary, He Named Me Malala, a plea for the value of education that centers around the heroic efforts of Noble Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, is such a mediocre garble of good intentions that it ends up diluting its subject's urgent message.

Last Men in Aleppo (Netflix, iTunes, Google Play) This issue doc's topic is the Syrian civil war, and particularly the heroic efforts of the volunteer - supported humanitarian - aid organization known as the White Helmets.

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.

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.

It's chilling commentary on a war that has dragged on much too long... despite the heroic efforts of the 12 horse soldiers.

Memorial Day weekend is the time of year when we recognize the heroic efforts of the men and women who have served our country.

While there is still plenty of work to be done on the implications, the scientific debate over whether rising greenhouse gas levels are the principal cause of this warming has effectively been dead for years, despite the heroic efforts of some sections of the media to keep it on life - support.»

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

Friday's service recognized the sacrifices of fallen law enforcement officers in Erie County along with the daily efforts of all individuals involved in public safety, as police chaplains and senior law enforcement officials from around the county noted the heroic efforts of those members of the public safety community who have made the ultimate sacrifice to ensure our safety.

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.

The heroic efforts of New World missionaries, many of whom suffered cruel deaths, should have had the same transformative power as the martyrs of the early Church.

Whatever the noble intentions and heroic efforts of many teachers, these unions are the enemy of the children of the poor.

Although they make no claims to be heroes, it is also a record of the ceaseless and heroic efforts of Judy and Ron Barron on behalf of their son.

We will never forget the terror of September 11, but neither will we forget the heroic efforts of the police and firefighters who rushed into the World Trade Center to help people escape.

One could reasonably expect the entropic effects of repeated failures to be cumulative, despite the heroic efforts of actual occasions to generate novelty and completeness.

On the other end of the spectrum, the Christian Post calls The Zookeeper's Wife «the real - life story behind the heroic efforts of two devout Christians.»

The result, says Lapomarda, «has been a silence so tight that the truth about much of the heroic efforts of various individuals in the Nazi era has been neglected.»

«We'd like to recognize the heroic effort of the Contra Costa and Alameda County shelters and rescues, and as importantly, the community members that showed up in masses to find their new best friends.»

«the unwearying, heroic effort of mankind desperately denying its own contingency» is nonsense.

If and when that happens, we will have lost all effective influence on global warming — barring, of course, the heroic effort of massive «geo - engineering,» such as injecting sulphate aerosols into the stratosphere.

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Without clarifying your core customers, selling is ultimately a function of individual, heroic efforts in the field, not a scalable platform for growth.

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.»

Does it count in her favor that a Russian Jewish atheist made heroic (yes, heroic) efforts to leave the Soviet Union and become an American citizen, and that she defended her adopted home for the rest of her life?

This seems to be the case with Clue Club, in which the clumsy, braggart bloodhounds, Woofer and Wimper, and sometimes Deedee and Pepper, provide the comic and antiheroic counterpoint to the successful efforts of Larry and Dottie, They show us that the creators of the show are aware of the widespread skepticism regarding the heroic, At the same time, the expected formulas of mystery and adventure can be executed for the sake of those (younger?)

Odd again, because, despite my best efforts to see something heroic in this man's biography, which might explain what his prose does not, I confess to see at best what Stephen Spender referred to, in a 1979 New York Review of Books piece (March 25, p. 13) on modern German self - analysis, as «der Nebel,» the fog that «allows people to live with unbearable experiences»; the fog that made it possible to «go along» or «not know.»

But this part of her argument raises another question: If people's love for their children can motivate them to make heroic efforts to be good parents after divorce, couldn't the same amount of effort be expended to make many of the marriages work in the first place?

It is one of the virtues of Quint's book (another is the generosity of critical annotation, amounting almost to a mini variorum edition) that Paradise Lost's still center is given a density so great that reading the poem becomes itself a heroic act; an act difficult to perform, but in its difficulty providing an experience few (if any) efforts of the human imagination are capable of provoking.

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.

Our ordinary, pre-revelational images of God are often little more than expressions and legitimations of those powers before whom we act out our heroic performances in an effort to gain the significance for which we crave.

Human effort to roll the stone up the hill only results in a roll down again and the endless repetition of this heroic effort.

The photo of the Gersten family today is a testament to the heroic efforts Czeslaw Polziec's family made to maintain humanity when society gave in to the inhumane.