Sentences with phrase «valiant attempt»

Overall, Sega's Rise of Nightmares makes valiant attempt at a creepy matured rated action horror game for the Kinect.

We've seen plenty of valiant attempts at ousting established high - end vehicles like the aforementioned Bimmer and Jag, most of which fail.

It was as if even the bulls understood something that day, one after the other bending to his will, brushing his cape with their horns, plowing toward him again and again in valiant attempts to pick the pocket of his life.

Despite valiant attempts from Gould and Bogart, Dick Powell remains the best screen incarnation of Philip Marlowe to date.

Both of our dishes were incredible, but I knew from the second I took my first bite of salad that I was going to make my most valiant attempt to create my own unique version in my home kitchen.

M. Night Shyamalan's latest valiant attempt to earn the first negative rating on Rotten Tomatoes, «The Last Airbender» got off to a decent start yesterday.

Still, valiant attempts continue, and I must honor them.

Von Kempelen and his helpers tour his remarkable invention all around Europe to amaze and entertain the public, but despite many valiant attempts and close calls, no one is able to beat the extraordinary chess machine.

They're a disappointing showing from what may be Google's most eagerly anticipated hardware product this year, a slew of interesting ideas and valiant attempts wrapped up in a product that just doesn't deliver.»

Some, in valiant attempts to use the tiny boxes, back up and hang their butts over the backs and then do their business.

Fisman and Sullivan don't have all the answers, but the pair make a valiant attempt to parse why some organizations work and others don't, and they give readers a good picture of what makes the organization so unwieldy and so difficult.

In August of 2012, Schulze made a valiant attempt to buy Best Buy for about $ 8.5 billion in a mix of stock and cash, and take the company private again.

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).

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

If one does make a valiant attempt to «literally believe» the above four verses of KJVB scripture you might then slowly begin to understand the Truth in God's Word!

I tried another tack: I made a valiant attempt to believe.

There have, however, been some valiant attempts to defend the continuing use of the term God.

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

So in a valiant attempt to do something sweet for my dear hubby, I decided to transform fruitcake this holiday season into something better, something yummy, or at least something not quite so creepy and mysterious.

I'm going to make a valiant attempt to use mine more often this year, especially for soups and stews....

As the conversation dragged on, Dave made a valiant attempt to save the chicken.

Returning to the pitch half time, UCLan made a valiant attempt to try and get the better of our team, but it was largely unsuccessful, with the score standing at 37 — 17 by the time the final whistle blew.

ode to the Potters for their valiant attempt at shaking off their staid reputation!

He helped to keep Seamus Coleman in check at Goodison Park and made a valiant attempt to help Nacho Monreal deal with the Lionel Messi - Dani Alves double - team.

There was a little bit of a problem there and the authors made a valiant attempt to hide it.

She made a valiant attempt for a while, and then went back to not eating.

When labor started moving at the speed of light, he made a valiant attempt to get the birth pool set up in time.

A valiant attempt to educate about the workings of the European Parliament through an MEP's investigation into the politics of fascism.

Despite a valiant attempt by my YNN colleague Bill Carey, Sen. Chuck Schumer refused during a stop in Syracuse yesterday to take a position on a true state - level millionaire's tax, despite the fact that he is pushing the exact same thing down in Washington, D.C.

Historians may look back on the Coalition as a bold but flawed attempt by Messrs Cameron and Osborne to frustrate the realignment of the Left of which Roy Jenkins dreamed: Mr Cameron's Sunday Times (#) article yesterday was a valiant attempt to keep it going.

The Green Party made a valiant attempt, but seems to only have 7,000 signatures in hand.

Their valiant attempt to involve themselves in the selection of the shadow cabinet has, predictably, been paid only lip - service by the leadership.

Though the best students are likely to make a valiant attempt, they can't hang with you if you don't meet them halfway — or in some cases 95 % of the way.

«This is a valiant attempt to quantify the effects of climate change on the future of food production.

Probably not, but Gizmodo's Ryan Carlyle made a valiant attempt to explain an...

First it was as a VERY stiff salve only loosened with a bit of avocado oil to rub into my chronically abused cuticles in a valiant attempt to at least heal them enough to handle salt and lemon in the kitchen (yes I have a lifelong nibbling habit.)

I'm going to make a valiant attempt to use mine more often this year, especially for soups and stews....

Overall the game makes a valiant attempt to be something «hip» and new but falls flat and ends up being what i can describe as a boring version of «The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt», if you think of playing this game and haven't played the Witcher 3, please take my advice and play that instead and whilst this may sound spiteful (take it as constructive criticism), anyone who give the game a 10 out of 10 is clearly blind to any of its many flaws.

And like her SNL predecessors Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, she doesn't mind looking stupid, her knack for physical humour extending to some hilarious stunt driving and a valiant attempt at knocking over a chocolate fountain carved out of stone.

A fresh and valiant attempt to breathe some fresh air into the #MeToo movement, Submission is stimulating and intelligently rendered until the final act, when predictability sets in.

As he delves ever deeper into the case, he arrives at the sudden, shocking conclusion that he knew each of the women, and worries that he might have rubbed them out in a drunken state, as he concurrently (and paradoxically) makes valiant attempts to reach the next victim before the killer.

Chronicles: China is a valiant attempt at expanding such offerings, but it doesn't hit the bar of quality or originality that its genre peers have already set.