Sentences with phrase «strenuous efforts over»

These not only survived until modern times in many indigenous cultures, such as those of the New Zealand Maori and the North American Indians, but they often continued beneath the surface of the post-Axial faiths, despite strenuous efforts over the centuries to destroy them.

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Father Driscoll discussed the shocking cost of shipping from Florida, and expounded on coconut palms, and fishtail palms, and tiger palms, and many other species of palms, and noted that as far as he could tell from his inquiries, Our Blessed Lord rode His donkey over the fronds of date palms, which is why our parish makes a strenuous effort every year to obtain date palms, for historical accuracy, but inasmuch as this year the cost of date palm fronds was prohibitively high, he was sure that the ladies would agree with him that the correct thing to do was to use local willow wands instead, and thus save money that could be directed to the poor and unfortunate of the parish.