Sentences with phrase «special efforts like»

It reminds me of routine wartime musicals — not special efforts like The Gang's All Here or Cabin in the Sky or Girl Crazy or The Sky's the Limit, but those wholly forgettable Betty Grable and Alice Faye vehicles, top - heavy with running gags, dopey character actors, corny subplots, and sentimental framing devices.

Not exact matches

Successful people only become «special» after they succeed; before they put in all that time and effort, they were just like everyone else.

Make sure your people feel like they are a part of something special and that their efforts are truly appreciated.

The Air Force — as well as specialized units like the special forces — have been especially burdened by ongoing military efforts over the last 20 years.

Like the thousands of pretty blondes whose lives get destroyed in the effort of becoming the next Jayne Mansfield or Cameron Diaz, why should Pearl Jam's efforts necessarily become the next The Who or even The Ramones — why should they be given any special privilege?

I often drink golden milk at night before bed but I make a special effort to drink more of this super-food beverage when I feel like I'm starting to get sick or when I'm worn out and feel like my immunity may need a boost.

For that reason I would like to thank all the players who played on the team for their effort and hard work, and special thanks to Keith Kinkaid!

But you have to make special efforts to focus on it if you have a kid like mine, because otherwise it's just too hard.

Like so many others, he is waiting to see the outcome of the April 19 special election for former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos» Long Island seat, which could indicate which way the wind is blowing in terms of the GOP's effort to retain the majority.

«Since the expulsion of Hiram Monserrate was touted as a major accomplishment for Eric Scheniderman, who chaired that Special Committee, and who stressed this effort when he ran for Attorney General, I would like to make the following inquiries,» Diaz Sr. said in a press release.

Kathleen Tanner, Executive Director of Equinox, said: «I would like to thank Governor Paterson for recognizing the truly amazing efforts of our volunteers who come back year after year to make Thanksgiving Day special for so many people throughout the Capital District.

On one side of the question are policy experts like National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn and George David Banks, a special assistant to the president for international energy and environment, who caution that a departure from the globally popular deal could complicate Trump's efforts on trade and security issues.

What I love starting your day with something like this is that a) it feels special with minimal effort, b) it's sweet like a dessert, but won't send your blood sugar on crazy spikes and c) it's filling and provides long - lasting energy throughout the day.

I like using it for special occasions when I put a bit more effort in my make - up.

It takes only minutes to make, but looks like there is a lot of time and effort put into it, making the gift recipient feel extra special.

For the actual day, I shall wear a dress of some kind as Rev T likes us to make a special effort.

After starting to make a conscious effort to actually finish products and not let the last bit go to waste while saving it for a special day, I felt like I made really good progress.

ChristianMingle makes every effort to help members find a special someone of the Christian faith, offering a wide range of features like chatting, photos, daily matches, and anonymous private mailboxes.

You'll definitely want to appear like you made a special effort to look nice (hopefully he will do the same, right?)

Even as a welcome offering to audiences from a broad variety of ethnic and economic backgrounds, Overboard ultimately feels like one of the dinners that Kate assigns Leo to cook for his newfound family — a good effort with a few new surprises to spice up a familiar dish, but nothing special enough to truly transform it into more than a routine meal.

Alpha House hits a few notes of inspired satire — like the bowl of American flag lapel pins the senators keep on the kitchen counter — but Trudeau's been more biting and much funnier elsewhere, past TV efforts like Tanner ’88 and the malaise - infected Doonesbury Special included.

Although a Driver and a Blade are two separate characters, in a battle they fight as one, so although together they can use Driver Arts like Rex's Anchor Shot to do damage and cause the enemy to drop a HP Potion, or just use a special move of which there are four levels with the fourth being the most devastating, the reality is it's essentially one character attacking due to a joint effort.

There isn't a tree, mountain, character, location or special effect in this game that has any degree of personality or liveliness within its existence, making the whole engine seem like an assembly - line, cookie - cutter, by - the - numbers effort on the part of From Software.

But even as a welcome offering to audiences from a broad variety of ethnic and economic backgrounds, «Overboard» ultimately feels like one of the dinners that Kate assigns Leo to cook for his newfound family — a good effort with a few new surprises to spice up a familiar dish, but nothing special enough to truly transform it into more than a routine meal.

There isn't much to say about it intellectually, but for a group of filmmakers who grew up making short films and finding themselves producing special effects and stop - motion animated sequences for films like Pee - Wee's Big Adventure, Killer Klowns from Outer Space is an admirable effort.

While not a full - blown Special Edition, Disney has put just enough effort into this long - awaited DVD release to please fans of this much - liked drama.

Mailbox Treats I like to give special treats on special days or to recognize above - and - beyond efforts or for no reason at all!

Within this broader framework, we were, like the researchers in the special strategies study (Stringfield et al., 1997), interested in both imported models of reform (where they had adopted an external intervention program or school reform program) and homegrown reform efforts.

Like the Common Core test itself, the entire testing effort discriminates against poorer children, children who aren't fluent in the English Language and students who are not getting the special education services they need.

What is annoying, to say the least, is that despite these difficult economic times, and while we're making a special effort to invest in our poorest, most challenged urban school districts, we've got school administrators like Paul Vallas and Steven Adamowski who begin by hiring consultants and laying off the very Connecticut residents who have been working so hard to make a difference.

But knowing the propensity to do the wrong thing at times like this, Connecticut's taxpayers should make a special effort to read Sarah Darer Littman's piece and keep a careful eye on their state legislators in the week ahead.

Malloy, like newly sworn - in Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, has been a consistent supporter of efforts to privatize public education by turning over scarce public resources to charter schools despite the fact that these schools discriminate against Latino students, students who need help learning the English language and students who require special education services.

This means that embedding things like special fonts used in your print version is often a wasted effort.

With memoir (your genre), I think it is a bit of a special niche (like children's fiction) and so you may get a bit more for your marketing efforts targeting writers of memoir than you would other genres, but the principle is still the same.

In a like - minded effort, Friends for Life in Houston will hold a «mega adoption» event on December 9, with activities, adoption specials, and more, as part of its Home After Harvey campaign.

However, through sponsor support, private donations, special events (like our Walk for the Animals), adoption fees, and other fundraising efforts, we are able to care for thousands of homeless animals throughout Broward County.

I would like to give a special thanks to Cesar for the extra effort that he spent with Michele.

In an effort to attract budget - minded consumers without lowering their prices, companies may also give you access to special deals if you subscribe to their email list or «like» their Facebook page.

Usually weapons like these should be highly prized, with intense firefights springing up around them as both sides attempt to claim them, but in Special Forces nobody is really that bothered about getting their hands on them, because they're simply not powerful or useful enough to warrant the effort.

It felt like the vast majority of the developers» time and effort had gone towards making a faithful interactive version of the city itself, to the detriment of the immersive gameplay that had made its prequel so special.

Speaking of those two, their combo - to - special techniques do the most damage (over 50 % health) in the game despite the damage scaling and require less hits and less effort than a combo from a more complex character like Bakugo or Todoroki who don't even reach 50 %.

If you're a person who likes to stream, create content, do speedruns, or work towards various stat or playstyle achievements and efforts, we're building special classes of guilds that will facilitate finding like - minded people with similar goals to you and providing tools in those particular guilds that will better help with those goals.

Special enemies like those or larger enemies like ogres or trolls will drop coins that give you a bit more back for your effort.

In closing, I would like to add special thanks to the Foundation's Board of Trustees for its ongoing support for all of our efforts and for the collective wisdom it brings to our discussions; and to acknowledge our talented and hardworking staff, which is small in size but often seems to be doing the work of many more.

Only a few forward - thinking painters like Leonardo da Vinci (The Annunciation 1472), Giovanni Bellini (Ecstasy of St Francis 1480) and Giorgione (The Tempest 1508) bothered to make a special effort with the scenic backgrounds of their religious paintings.

Much like in the novel, A House of Leaves borrows different languages, tells multiple narratives in different ways, and asks its viewer to become co-author in order to present a collective effort to define an art form — in this instance the contemporary art museum, from its collection, displays, special commissions, and loans, to its educational and interpretation system.

Back in 2006, he edited a special issue on responses to climate change and, like most such efforts, the articles were narrowly focused on showcasing exciting low - carbon technologies.

«Reagan Vs. Cities and States: The 20th Century Battle over South African Apartheid» tells the story of how cities and states joined the fight against apartheid in South Africa and won even as the Reagan administration and special interest groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) sought to suppress those efforts.

I don't see any special effort to keep up with what's required for law firms to compete online in 2017, which is highlighted by issues like their lack of link building acumen and their vanilla content marketing services.

In an effort to insure more people and lessen the tax consequences for some Minnesotans, MNSure has announced a special enrollment for those people that face a penalty for being uninsured in 2014, and would like to get coverage for 2015.