Sentences with phrase «make heroic efforts»

She also tends to a number of troubled souls who have inadvertently stumbled into the underworld, some of whom make heroic efforts to stay above the Lethe's forgetful waters, to keep alive their stories, lest they be forgotten for eternity.

The past two years have seen us have to make heroic efforts to continue our mission, but we are doing it and maintaining our goals of providing BETTER care.

«Social capital» is a murky concept, and Brinig and Garnett make heroic efforts to give it substance.

Doctors routinely make heroic efforts to keep their patients alive.

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?

In the 1970s, a Canadian, Jitsuo Morikawa, made heroic efforts to involve the American Baptists as a denomination in real lifestyle changes.

«Scientists like Zeke and others have made heroic efforts to extract the most reliable global warming signal from the inadequate data we have.»

«The WCS Congo veterinary staff is making heroic efforts to save as many parrots as possible, and we were honored to provide our expertise and assistance.»

About a week ago, The Legal Intelligencer made an heroic effort to unpack insurance data to see the effect of the changes in medical malpractice liability law from a decade ago, but ran into a serious problem: those very same medical insurance companies that cry the loudest about the need for tort reform also refuse to make public the data that would tell us the most about the malpractice system.

Not exact matches

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?

It is those who are in touch with the eternal order who make the most heroic and sustained efforts to improve conditions for their fellows.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

«Marianne Neifert (a breastfeeding expert otherwise known as «Dr. Mom») estimates that «as many as 5 % of women may have primary insufficient lactation because of anatomic breast variations or medical illness that make them unable to produce a full milk supply despite heroic efforts».»

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.

The film follows the efforts of the heroic Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), a small group of activists who have made it their mission to disseminate information across news sites, blogs and social media about what's going on in Raqqa, from the strict law to executions on the street.

He goes a long way in making My Left Foot a success.Director Jim Sheridan guides the film in a relatively straightforwardmanner, playing the emotional highs and lows like a weeping fiddle.Brenda Fricker turns in an equally heroic performance as Christy «sbother, and both won Oscars for their efforts.

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.

Of course, we know how the story ends, but the heroic efforts against a very powerful Mother Nature show - of - force make for compelling movie watching.

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!

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.

Heroic efforts were made in the recent past to turn the school around with little support from the District.

Heroic efforts by excellent educators can only make a dent.

Unless the animal had a collar or a microchip, the practice policy stated no heroic efforts were to be made.

I made my decision based on these people's heroic efforts.

This book made me want to learn more about that aspect of slavery & the heroic efforts to save them.

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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.

Thanks to a heroic effort from the City of Jessup's Chief of Police, Joseph Walsh, and amazing veterinary care, Rooster has made a full recovery and is back to his loving ways.

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

Serra's achievement belongs beside their heroic efforts to make an embracing world of art, saturated in memory and poetry.

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.

And this is in part due to the heroic efforts Judy Alexander has put in to make this vision a reality.

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