Sentences with phrase «which laudable efforts»

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With all their laudable effort to understand the integrity of the Scriptures, both Old and New, and to insist on the basic unity of the Bible; with all their recognition of the place of Jesus within the setting of Jewish piety and religious thought, these scholars sometimes fail to see that the very truth about God which the Bible as a whole affirms, and above all that which the New Testament says about Jesus himself, can be smothered by sheer biblicism and thereby made meaningless for those to whom the gospel should be a living, vitalizing, and contemporary message.

This is not a film of major incident and climactic conflict, and Claudel makes a concerted and laudable effort to steer his story away from the melodrama to which it could obviously lend itself.

State licensing programs for groomers and other service providers may seek to codify standards and increase accountability, which are certainly laudable goals, in an effort to reassure uncertain customers.