Sentences with phrase «many valiant»

That's a valiant acknowledgment from a small - town paper, but newspaper endorsements - no matter their credibility or weight - won't be easy to extirpate.

On October 14, 2014, the valiant Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner ascended to more than 128,000 feet above New Mexico in a helium balloon before freefalling at supersonic speeds (Mach 1.24) back to earth.

While I don't have any insight about this retail giant's cyber security operation, many companies large and small have no idea if a breach has occurred in their networks despite their valiant efforts.

A valiant lawyer, a black man falsely accused.

An inspirational profile of an inner - city high school football team's valiant effort to reach the school's first - ever playoff game.

The hope was that antisense oligos for everything from cancer to HIV would roll off the pharmaceutical assembly line — but despite a generation of valiant effort, the successes on this front have been meager.

However, while many business owners are making valiant attempts to position themselves as thought leaders, their efforts often fall short because of one key reason: credibility (or lack thereof).

But there isn't such a computer, and without proportional representation, our valiant efforts at voting our principles are undermined or rendered neutral by a crude system designed to favour incumbents and lower expectations of what is possible.

Griffin also makes a valiant attempt at summarizing Charlie Munger's notoriously artful and qualitative approach with rigor and detail.

Everyone feels the need to be recognized as an individual or member of a group and to feel a sense of achievement for work well done or even for a valiant effort.

Persia has been transformed from a poor country into one of infinite wealth, setting the stage for the invasion of poor but valiant Greece.

For how do we know how many valiant battles such a person may have fought and won before he loses that one particular battle?

No matter how valiant our efforts, it pops up with all its vitality, splashing everyone around.

It is their defense against constantly confronting the fact of their own deeper misery, a valiant and — thank goodness — sometimes successful effort to deny and hide from the inescapable tragedy of their own lives.

Women are called to be strong and valiant battling our Enemy alongside our brothers.

She calls this film a «valiant effort,» and has written a tie - in devotional book to the film for Christian moms.

Charlie makes a valiant effort at preaching and otherwise playing the role.

I have gone out of my way to support Father Maturi fight against crime and am working closely with him in this valiant effort to make some positive change.

James Bradley makes a valiant attempt to solve within Whitehead's basic terms the problem Jones has suggested needed a solution, but there is little doubt Jones would regard Bradley's solution as too heavily» reliant upon numerical unity», and therefore abstract.

Sex Education, A Parents» Guide is a valiant effort to present the controversial Catholic teaching in a friendly way.

Her honesty about the uncomfortable realities of life and faith — the unresolved, the disappointments, the mysterious, the gray, the hopeful, the routine, the failures, the valiant efforts — give this book a more conversational and intimate feel than any of her others.

Despite these valiant efforts, countless Coptic tunes have slipped silently into the sands of time with the death of some white - haired cleric in a nondescript Egyptian village.

The African - American spiritual songs contain imagery reflecting this notion of the sent and the sender: «Swing low, sweet chariot, comin» for to carry me home; a band of angels Comin» after me, comin» for to carry me home»; or «Oh Lord, I want some valiant soldier to help me bear the cross.»

Woe to those who are heros in drinking wine, and valiant men in mixing strong drink; Who justify the wicked for a bribe, And take away the rights of the ones who are in the right!

He urges us to shun the language of «fighting» cancer, of «valiant battles» and «long bouts.»

Right at the beginning, Hobbes made a valiant effort to complete the Copernican Revolution.

but the woman or our society keep the war against Rome going for 1000 years then another 1000 when England took over the assault, their valiant struggle did not end until Christendom put are woman to the subservient side of the coin, and the dark ages followed, my point is your right men and woman can not do the same things men destroy, women create.

Even now, more than ten years later, I remain awed by their valiant struggle, mounted at great personal cost: drained finances, lost privacy, media scorn, impugned motives, death threats — and eventually Bob's death, which the family believes was caused by the stress of watching helplessly as his daughter died by court order.

There are recounted stories of valiant combat, individual and collective.

In chapters 13 and 15 (theological but not precisely episodical duplicates) he is publicly rejected by Samuel - Yahweh; and with the traumatic knowledge that his cause is no longer Yahweh's cause or that Yahweh's cause is no longer his cause, that magnificent man, the courageous heart, the valiant leadership are seen to shrivel, disintegrate, and atrophy.

By his courageous heart, his valiant leadership against Philistia, and his faith that he is Yahweh's man, he achieves a position of strength and prominence among most of the tribes of Israel quite exceeding that of any previous «judge» but clearly short of full kingship.

It's a blog (inspired by Julie Anne's valiant blogging) i set up last spring to address some spiritual abusers — some Presbyterian Elders — in a previous home church of mine here in Pittsburgh.

Atheism is valiant as well — simply because we don't know where we are going after this — maybe nowhere.

When the time comes to leave this world, to be «a valiant soul without fear of death» (to quote St. Oliver Plunkett), we make our final sacrifice to God for the life that he has given to us.

It is the most valiant, courageous, and dedicated group of women I have ever encountered — an army of «gogos» (grandmothers) and an odd assortment of other unlikely heroes.

Even when we think we have it all figured out, might we too change our minds, as did Queen Orual (at the end of her life), Queen of Glome «who was the most wise, just, valiant, fortunate and merciful of all the princes known in our parts of the world», as attested by Arnom, priest of Aphrodite.

11, pp. 401 - 403) and even valiant heroes were reduced in Hades to ghosts so feeble that a draught of the fresh blood of sacrificial victims was necessary to rouse them to action.

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

Now, should there be a single valiant atheist that have the balls to do such thing in a Muslim ceremony, surely I would throw my tin foil hat on him.

When we have been valiant and «virtuous» in the struggle (which means we have not eaten anything «sinful»), we know the gates of heaven are at hand (it only feels like hell).

In some respects, these are also his most valiant hours.

Others, like the ancient Pharisees, prompted by equally noble motives, are making valiant efforts to keep the church structures buoyant and active by winning converts from the lost world as occasion offers.

My valiant husband, Paul, took aside our 11 - year - old son, Matthew, to talk about puberty.

The Christian conscience put forth valiant efforts to curb and redirect to its ends the traditions of the former «barbarians» by which the rulers emerged from the professional warriors and retained their power by prowess in battle and skill in directing their subjects in military objectives.

When Pope Francis arrives in America next month, he will undoubtedly find a very different country than did Paul VI, John Paul II, or Benedict XVI.In the past decade, the culture of death has gained momentum (even as pro-life marches and valiant efforts to chip away at it continue), the sexual....

Any human attempt to build unity, no matter how valiant and well intended, will fall far short of the spiritual structure that has Jesus Christ as the chief cornerstone.

«I was a great archpapist and a really valiant knight of the Mass» in those days, so he said later.

Instead, her honesty about the uncomfortable realities of life and faith — the unresolved, the disappointments, the mysterious, the gray, the hopeful, the routine, the failures, the valiant efforts — give this book a more conversational and intimate feel than any of her others.

And like in Jesus» explanation, when the Losers» Club (industrious Ben, jittery Eddie, thoughtful Mike, goofball Richie, methodical Stanley, soulful Bev and valiant Bill) begins dealing with a horror beyond human imagining, they're better equipped for the fight owing to their very youth.

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