Sentences with phrase «valiant attempts»

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.»

And it certainly is one of the valiant attempts currently to keep our nostrils above the flood.

We start out with the best of intentions — we make valiant attempts to change — we meet resistance or our experiment is not successful — and we give up.

Lips» valiant attempts to prevent extinction threatened Pounds and his followers and he published articles attacking those conservation efforts.

I think this definitely stands within the top 10 Fighting games of all time, if only for its valiant attempts to differentiate itself as unique before the incoming wave of generic fighting games that came in the following years.

Toys «R» Us has made valiant attempts to keep its shelves stocked with a few Nintendo Switches, but it hasn't been able to keep hold of them for long.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Several companies made valiant attempts to replicate its potency, often by copying the profile, ingredient by ingredient.

Several companies made valiant attempts to replicate its potency, often by copying the profile,

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I tried and it was a valiant attempt.

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

In a valiant attempt to shield the back four, Coquelin made 4 tackles and 9 interceptions.

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.

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.

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.)

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.

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.

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.

Even its lavish 70th birthday celebrations (guests included Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Charlize Theron and Claudia Cardinale) seemed a valiant attempt to enshrine the festival's past, perhaps as a means of safeguarding its future.

So Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Kiernan Shipka made a valiant attempt to bring some color to the Critic's Choice Awards

Through a trippy time structure that I have seen before, «Downloading Nancy,» a darkly perverse movie, makes a valiant attempt to tell her story with some success due to a fearless performance from Maria Bello.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Kiernan Shipka made a valiant attempt to bring some color to the Critic's Choice Awards on Thursday

Most of it works well, some of it works very well, a bit of it seems hideously out of place - I can't help but wonder what another previous Stone collaborator, Ennio Morricone, might have done with it - and it's a valiant attempt by its composer, in a rare serious film outing - but I don't think it's such a good album.

Unfortunately, Red Sparrow, Jennifer Lawrence's valiant attempt to kickstart a second, potentially lucrative franchise after the billion - dollar grossing Hunger Games series ended three years ago (practically an eternity in Hollywood), feels exactly like the aforementioned, 10 - part torturous, interminable slog.

Crazy Kings [Free] is a creatively cartoon - y tower defense adventure which documents one hero's valiant attempt to rally troops and save the world from the siege of the titular raving royals.

In Housewife (1934), she's second billed but really only a supporting player, the «other woman» who seduces — or at least makes a valiant attempt to — advertising professional George Brent from his devoted wife Ann Dvorak.

Hence, we have a thriller, set against the backdrop of a civil war in Sierra Leone, that makes a valiant attempt to bring attention to the issue (which still is a problem in Africa) but falters in placing it in predictable, formulaic action piece.

The MKT is a valiant attempt at reinventing an icon, but it's ultimately let down by its baroque styling.

The Pandigital Novel makes a valiant attempt at being a value - priced, full - color, Android - based e-reader that also doubles as a general - use tablet.

Epic seem to have taken criticisms toward the Gears story to heart and have made a valiant attempt to craft some truly emotional moments for the final game in the trilogy, and they've succeeded to a degree.

Pretty much as you wrote about Capcom's brand new trailer for Lost Planet 2, I was standing at a kiosk playing with three others as we made a valiant attempt at taking down one huge creature.

There has been a valiant attempt over the last handful of years to create an awards night that celebrates video games.