Sentence examples for a valiant effort to from inspiring English sources

Hertsgaard makes a valiant effort to provide them.

Weiner made a valiant effort to take the high road.

Making a valiant effort to downsize, Mr. Freund shed decades' worth of possessions and memorabilia.

Someone else made a valiant effort to play a few bars of "Heart and Soul".

Not even when it bought Bebo for $850m in a valiant effort to do social media.

Shilton made a valiant effort to reach Kunde's penalty but was still beaten by it.

"The Expos made a valiant effort to get him, but so did the Mariners".

We scheduled plans to do problem sets together, and made a valiant effort to carry them through.

Alec Wilkinson makes a valiant effort to explain (some) of the laws of cricket ("Not Quite Cricket," March 9th).

Admittedly Neil Shicoff, as the ardent lover Rodolfo, made a valiant effort to carry the whole performance on his shoulders.

Firms such as J.P. Morgan are making a valiant effort to keep staff, by, for example, offering to finance their dot.com ideas.