Sentences with phrase «in valiant attempts»

Some, in valiant attempts to use the tiny boxes, back up and hang their butts over the backs and then do their business.

So in a valiant attempt to do something sweet for my dear hubby, I decided to transform fruitcake this holiday season into something better, something yummy, or at least something not quite so creepy and mysterious.

In a valiant attempt to shield the back four, Coquelin made 4 tackles and 9 interceptions.

First it was as a VERY stiff salve only loosened with a bit of avocado oil to rub into my chronically abused cuticles in a valiant attempt to at least heal them enough to handle salt and lemon in the kitchen (yes I have a lifelong nibbling habit.)

Earlier this afternoon, Jared and I spent some time with Candy Crush Saga [Free] in a valiant attempt to get inside its head.

Bob and I, being true gentlemen, retreated to the tents to smoke and drink beer in a valiant attempt to keep flies at bay — while the ladies stayed outside to cook dinner surrounded by clouds of the nipping insects.

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He supported the valiant attempt of the surviving Jews of Poland — and especially their children and grandchildren — to rebuild Jewish life in the country.

Chad, While it is a valiant attempt at trying to point flaws in colin's post, you missed one crucial point..

Despite getting 40 points on 12 - of - 22 shooting, six rebounds and five assists from stud freshman point guard Collin Sexton, Alabama ultimately came up short in its valiant comeback attempt, losing 89 — 84.

He helped to keep Seamus Coleman in check at Goodison Park and made a valiant attempt to help Nacho Monreal deal with the Lionel Messi - Dani Alves double - team.

Despite a valiant attempt by my YNN colleague Bill Carey, Sen. Chuck Schumer refused during a stop in Syracuse yesterday to take a position on a true state - level millionaire's tax, despite the fact that he is pushing the exact same thing down in Washington, D.C.

David Cameron's negotiation was a valiant final attempt to make it work for Britain - and I want to thank all those elsewhere in Europe who helped him reach an agreement - but the blunt truth, as we know, is that there was not enough flexibility on many important matters for a majority of British voters.

The Green Party made a valiant attempt, but seems to only have 7,000 signatures in hand.

Their valiant attempt to involve themselves in the selection of the shadow cabinet has, predictably, been paid only lip - service by the leadership.

Though the best students are likely to make a valiant attempt, they can't hang with you if you don't meet them halfway — or in some cases 95 % of the way.

Both of our dishes were incredible, but I knew from the second I took my first bite of salad that I was going to make my most valiant attempt to create my own unique version in my home kitchen.

As he delves ever deeper into the case, he arrives at the sudden, shocking conclusion that he knew each of the women, and worries that he might have rubbed them out in a drunken state, as he concurrently (and paradoxically) makes valiant attempts to reach the next victim before the killer.

Most of it works well, some of it works very well, a bit of it seems hideously out of place - I can't help but wonder what another previous Stone collaborator, Ennio Morricone, might have done with it - and it's a valiant attempt by its composer, in a rare serious film outing - but I don't think it's such a good album.

Unfortunately, Red Sparrow, Jennifer Lawrence's valiant attempt to kickstart a second, potentially lucrative franchise after the billion - dollar grossing Hunger Games series ended three years ago (practically an eternity in Hollywood), feels exactly like the aforementioned, 10 - part torturous, interminable slog.

In Housewife (1934), she's second billed but really only a supporting player, the «other woman» who seduces — or at least makes a valiant attempt to — advertising professional George Brent from his devoted wife Ann Dvorak.

Hence, we have a thriller, set against the backdrop of a civil war in Sierra Leone, that makes a valiant attempt to bring attention to the issue (which still is a problem in Africa) but falters in placing it in predictable, formulaic action piece.

Based in part on letters and journals, it follows the Scott party in the early 1900s in its valiant British attempt to reach the South Pole before a Norwegian party led by Roald Amundsen, and especially focuses on the fatal return journey where the Antarctic winter caught Scott and his deteriorating men.

Epic seem to have taken criticisms toward the Gears story to heart and have made a valiant attempt to craft some truly emotional moments for the final game in the trilogy, and they've succeeded to a degree.

Most stages in Super Meat Boy are so comically hazardous that massive failure is expected, an idea made explicit by a brilliant feature that lets you watch all your attempts play out in unison as dozens (maybe hundreds) of Meat Boys brave a gauntlet of horrors until only one valiant soul remains.

There's a blossoming romance with Meryl, which can end in tragedy if you fail the interrogation sequence, and attempts at profound emotional moments are valiant, even though they perhaps don't hold as much effect as they may have done before.

I think this definitely stands within the top 10 Fighting games of all time, if only for its valiant attempts to differentiate itself as unique before the incoming wave of generic fighting games that came in the following years.

Yuke's have made a valiant attempt to move back to the heyday of the series where almost any match type you can think of was included in the game.

Prof Andy Challinor, at the University of Leeds and not involved in the new work, said: «This is a valiant attempt to quantify the effects of climate change on the future of food production.

They're a disappointing showing from what may be Google's most eagerly anticipated hardware product this year, a slew of interesting ideas and valiant attempts wrapped up in a product that just doesn't deliver.»

a wonderful post... and I would say a valiant attempt at re-creating the fireplace in the picture... koodo's to you for even attempting that — I have no carpenter skills so you got alot farther than I would have... I wouldn't take this as a failure at all — failure would have been not even attempting it — I think this should be a success, since you clearly knew that your building skills might not have been up to that level and you tried it anyway — good for you!