Sentences with phrase «making desperate efforts»

From the point of view of civilization the question of the church seems often to be regarded as that of an institution which has failed to adjust itself to the world and which is making desperate efforts to overcome its maladjustments.

Not exact matches

So, in 2012 expect desperate studios to make even more extraordinary efforts to draw us in.

Thanks for proving that people like you will make a «desperate effort to confirm their beliefs.»

It's just incredibly petty and desperate to claim that 1 goal that you didn't even make any sort of effort into.

While that's all positive and are steps in the right direction, the lack of trophies has made them an easy target, and that also arguably has a negative impact on keeping their best players who will be desperate to secure silverware to have something to show for their efforts.

When Wenger made absolutely no effort to get him, who was someone who would fit in with being an ideal team member for Wenger, as well playing in a position in which we are in desperate need of reinforcement, I feared the worst for the rest of the transfer window.

We can become even more desperate to obliterate the parts of ourselves that we believe make us inadequate, redoubling our efforts to shame those parts into submission.

This information following up on Nunes memo makes clear how desperate and untruthful that effort to undermine Mueller has been!

But anyone who reads Foundations of Computer Science will realise that using C + + to make a large program work reliably after it has developed problems is a desperate measure; reading Interactive System Design would instead make sure you programmed the right thing sooner, and hence relied a lot less on reusing other programmers» possibly bodged efforts.

You need to make the effort to appear attractive but not desperate just like in the real world.

Self - Medicated (R for sexuality, profanity, and drug abuse) Monty Lapica makes his scriptwriting, directorial and acting debut in this drama about a mother's (Diane Verona) desperate efforts to save her drug - addicted, 17 year - old son whose life has been spiraling out of control since the death of his father.

This powerful story is about how it's simply not natural to be with some people, despite all of our desperate efforts to make it so.

No wonder, with Bloomberg's departure at hand, the union is making a desperate last - ditch effort to slow down the creation of charter schools.

The discussions may have been no more than a desperate BlackBerry trying to gauge interest from Mark Zuckerberg's empire; Facebook's hardware efforts have been scattershot at best, making this seem like an awfully strange fit.

However, efforts should be made to place feeding stations in out - of - the - way locations to minimize the likelihood of desperate people illegally abandoning their pet cats.

Furthermore, he set the tone for reading Giacometti's art as an agonized meditation on the artist's struggle to give form to fleeting perceptions and as the desperate efforts of the isolated if not alienated individual struggling to make a place for himself or herself in an indifferent if not hostile world.

Political battles between outlying boroughs and suburbs — where car culture is stronger — and city planners desperate to unclog streets could make New York's congestion - pricing effort drag on a good while longer.

But back at the office, they'd heave a sigh of relief about not having to aggregate and manage a half dozen small clients for an appeal (as I often do to make appeals and federal court cases affordable) or fritter away valuable billable time blogging or playing on Twitter in a desperate effort to compensate for the kind of credibility and connections that biglaw automatically confers.

Too much effort spent trying to be entertaining can make you look desperate or awkward.