Sentences with phrase «valiant efforts»

Thanks to valiant efforts by Duffey, Childers and landscape architect Alex Smith to alter the rear courtyard and hardscapes (including the addition of an octagonal porch), the pool and outdoor living spaces now relate to both each other and the house naturally and seamlessly.

Notwithstanding TREB's valiant efforts, what does the real estate industry have to gag on, as a result of the vacuum created as a result of the virtual absence of leadership (CREA) in a national sense.

Your approaches so far to try to help your child to cope with those challenges and improve those behaviors have been valiant efforts, educated by the hours of research and care that you put into trying to help your child.

It was then that donations for his valiant efforts started pouring in.

LG has an ongoing smartphone problem: despite a few valiant efforts (the G2x comes to mind) the company continues to live in the shadow of rival Samsung.

«The sad truth is that Mrs. Henry, despite the valiant efforts of Mr. Sadowski, can not obtain access to justice because she is too poor to pay for it.»

Rafferty thanked solicitor colleagues for their support and «for the valiant efforts they have made this week when their cases were listed, and they did not have counsel.

If you ever have a bad moment (and all warriors for truth do, from time to time) and feel that all your valiant efforts are hopelessly futile, remember this:

(Don't forget about the wipeout concerning Bud Ward's valiant efforts to steer people away from seeing the fault in Gelbspan's «Pulitzer winner» label)

But will the seas be able to continue with those valiant efforts, as the global warming proceeds?

+ Anish Kapoor has been ordered to remove the antisemitic graffiti from his vandalized vagina sculpture «without delay,» thanks to the valiant efforts of politician Fabien Bouglé.

For me, it is sobering to see how little has changed despite the valiant efforts of feminist movements.

Despite the team's valiant efforts, they failed to complete their objective and were massacred «in the line of fire.»

Unfortunately on the third set, their valiant efforts were ended with PBE Doujin's (Jack - 6 / Dragunov) 5 - 0 win streak.

Hoping to earn a copy — using wit alone — he wrote to Blizzard about his valiant efforts to convince his wife he needs it.

Thanks to the valiant efforts of businesses like Florblanca and the people of Costa Rica, there is an abundance of a Pura Vida to be shared by locals and tourist like me, for which I'm grateful.

Despite rescuers valiant efforts the following morning, the bull became entrapped in a rocky area on the riverfront, fell into a small ravine and died.

Tragically, Sunbear died 3 days later on August 14, 2002, despite valiant efforts by the veterinary staff.

The modern greyhound is more popular as a racing dog then as a show dog, but valiant efforts by greyhound charities to raise the profile of the breed as a pet has meant that increasing numbers of ex-racing greyhounds find their way into the comfort of home life and happily swap the racetrack for a comfy sofa.

Today, thanks to the valiant efforts of amazing authors like Konrath and of the astonishing and farsighted efforts of the good folks at Amazon (and Smashwords and others) the Royals don't get the final word.

While book publicity plays an important role in creating awareness, there are several factors that positively or negatively impact book sales in spite of your valiant efforts.

Despite the valiant efforts of Linda Brown Thompson and the other families that were plaintiffs in the Brown v. the Board of Education, public education remains separate and profoundly unequal.

And is it not worsening in our schools — despite the valiant efforts of the Common Core, the AP program, and others to push students to seek actual evidence in original texts rather than just saying what they think about something — as contemporary liberalism pushes them hard to embrace and amplify what historians call «presentism»?

Despite my cold - blooded cynicism that's prevalent throughout this review, I'd be lying if I said that this movie didn't make me smile or chuckle here and there thanks to the valiant efforts of its appealing cast.

While there have been valiant efforts in porting big AAA games to Nintendo's latest hardware — Bethesda's DOOM and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus come to mind — the next AC game may be too ambitious for the Switch.

Spectre never tops this spectacular cold open, but it makes a couple of valiant efforts: There's a playful high - speed pursuit down the narrow allies of nighttime Rome, Bond testing his custom ride while long - distance flirting with Moneypenny (Naomie Harris), and a knock - down, drag - out fist fight with a Jaws - like henchman (Dave Bautista, of Guardians Of The Galaxy fame) aboard a speeding train.

There are a couple of badly judged scenes near the end — in one, John takes a gun into an old folks home looking for Ella's high school sweetheart, a dreadfully flat bit of slapstick that also undercuts the valiant efforts of Mirren and Sutherland to sell us on the depth and sweetness of their long relationship.

In the meantime, the more adventurous of the filmgoing audience can greatly benefit from the valiant efforts of this festival, and Mediabank, the company that runs it, to give Korean cinema the higher profile it deserves in the US.

While Ephron has been paid homage, either directly or inadvertently, in nearly every major rom - com since 1989, valiant efforts have been made to go against the queen's precedence, especially for those with an anti-love axe to grind.

Unfortunately, vaquitas continue to die in totoaba nets despite the valiant efforts by law enforcement agencies, the Mexican Navy, and conservation groups to prevent illegal fishing since the gillnet ban came into effect in April 2015, immediately before the new acoustic and visual studies were launched.

The valiant efforts of the Syracuse University Lava Project researchers to understand and control lava flows (3 August, p 40)...

The passage also aptly described the situation faced by the scientists at BP, such as vice president of engineering Paul Tooms or vice president and engineer Richard Lynch, who seemed incapable of determining how much oil was actually flowing and figuring out how to stop it despite valiant efforts.

«Liberal Democrat peers have made valiant efforts to improve the Bill in the House of Lords.

Markowitz later tweeted, linking to the video of his valiant efforts.

Arguably, Labour should have asked its volunteers not to head to Eastleigh, where the impact of their valiant efforts was always going to be minimal, but to Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Kent and other areas which have county council elections in a couple of months.

However, despite the valiant efforts of left Rawlsians to press down hard on pre-distribution and force it to yield some radical implications (O'Neill and Williamson, 2012; Doron, 2012), in Miliband's formulation it seems a weak reed, relying on labour market interventions such as education and training to alter distributional outcomes.

You know, when do you just kind of put it aside despite, you know, you valiant efforts and despite your passion for breastfeeding, when do you just say: enough is enough?

Despite my most valiant efforts and deep commitment to positive discipline, I often find myself making and correcting mistakes.

But there are times when babies keep crying despite a parent's valiant efforts to soothe.

A trip to Stoke, however, could be a lot worse, and while Bolton have fallen to three successive away defeats in the league, they'll head to Stoke fancying their chances after their valiant efforts at Chelsea on Tuesday despite losing 1 - 0 at Stamford Bridge under controversial circumstances.

He's put forth some valiant efforts in Pitt's 17 - game losing streak, including 17 - plus point performances against Virginia Tech, Duke, NC State, Syracuse, Miami, and Florida State.

Therefore, despite valiant efforts by Colorado, Penn State and, yeah, fine, Florida, I have no choice but to award the Huskers the title of Bust University.

Instead, her honesty about the uncomfortable realities of life and faith — the unresolved, the disappointments, the mysterious, the gray, the hopeful, the routine, the failures, the valiant efforts — give this book a more conversational and intimate feel than any of her others.

When Pope Francis arrives in America next month, he will undoubtedly find a very different country than did Paul VI, John Paul II, or Benedict XVI.In the past decade, the culture of death has gained momentum (even as pro-life marches and valiant efforts to chip away at it continue), the sexual....

The Christian conscience put forth valiant efforts to curb and redirect to its ends the traditions of the former «barbarians» by which the rulers emerged from the professional warriors and retained their power by prowess in battle and skill in directing their subjects in military objectives.

Others, like the ancient Pharisees, prompted by equally noble motives, are making valiant efforts to keep the church structures buoyant and active by winning converts from the lost world as occasion offers.

Despite these valiant efforts, countless Coptic tunes have slipped silently into the sands of time with the death of some white - haired cleric in a nondescript Egyptian village.

Her honesty about the uncomfortable realities of life and faith — the unresolved, the disappointments, the mysterious, the gray, the hopeful, the routine, the failures, the valiant efforts — give this book a more conversational and intimate feel than any of her others.

No matter how valiant our efforts, it pops up with all its vitality, splashing everyone around.

But there isn't such a computer, and without proportional representation, our valiant efforts at voting our principles are undermined or rendered neutral by a crude system designed to favour incumbents and lower expectations of what is possible.