Sentences with phrase «strenuous attempt»

Amazon made strenuous attempts to exclude their own witness's testimony from public knowledge; they failed, and so we know that Amazon was deliberately attempting to mislead consumers.

One last thing: Isn't it funny that leading theologians rush to affirm the proposition that Muslims and Christians worship the same God, even though Islam constitutes the most strenuous attempt imaginable to subvert the divinity of Jesus, while many theologians refuse to admit that Mormons and Christians worship the same Christ?

It is a history of waging war, terrible bloodshed and long and strenuous attempts towards peace.

The environmentalists argued that without a strenuous attempt to contain growth there was no future for anyone.

Kindly make a strenuous attempt at placing the poster's name of who your post is meant for.

Prayer requires a strenuous attempt at detachment from our distracting world of dollars, demands, the telephone, mail, friends and extended family.

Like Bacon's strenuous attempt to sound working class, the movie tries too hard.

The 137 - minute running time is also a drag on the momentum of the affair, especially as the movie works through several endings in a strenuous attempt to provide one bit of joy to cut through the murk and murder of what's passed.

She's a selfish downer with few redeeming qualities, and Plaza's distractingly trashy accent — a strenuous attempt to prove she's a bad girl deep down — doesn't help.

Strenuous attempts were made to introduce «cross curricular themes» that, it was hoped, would undermine the focus on separate subject disciplines.