He had to make a supreme effort of will to do things like ride his bicycle, which he had previously done spontaneously and with pleasure.
We made a supreme effort not to harm civilians in Gaza, although it was very difficult to distinguish between Hamas militiamen and innocent civilians.
In the People's Daily, the Party mouthpiece, an op-ed commentator lamented: "What is regrettable is that, with regard to the facts, Bo Xilai made a supreme effort to quibble, to avoid the major charges while admitting the minor ones, and almost completely denied the facts of his crimes".
Barbara Leaming, in her new biography of the older Churchill, "Churchill Defiant: Fighting On, 1945-1955" (HarperCollins; $26.99), italicizes what Lukacs has already established: that, in the early fifties, Churchill was desperate to make a "supreme effort to bridge the gulf between the two worlds" and seek some kind of European understanding with Stalin and then with his successors.
One signed commentary in the online edition of the People's Daily stated: "What is regrettable is that, with regard to the facts, Bo Xilai made a supreme effort to quibble, to avoid the major charges while admitting the minor ones, and almost completely denied the facts of his crimes".
The people were inspired to make a supreme effort.
Who made a supreme effort and carried determined hope until the first dew of our dawn.
And now they've made a supreme effort to get to know me, to try to get in contact, go out.
He made a supreme effort, and leaving his body at its davening, he moved outside himself to find himself in a time that didn't pass, in a not extensive space.
As the process of reconciliation gets underway, the United States and the European Union should make a supreme effort to reinvigorate the Arab Peace Initiative (API) and pressure both Israel and Hamas to embrace it.
