Sentence examples for energetic efforts of from inspiring English sources

Still full of mischief, still in that red dress, steel-woolly wig, specs, yellow stockings, pantaloons and pearls, Grandma is a welcome comic presence, augmented by the energetic efforts of Rick Monday.

The tensions generated by the squatter invasions have been temporarily tamped down by the energetic efforts of Mexico's new president, Jose Lopez Portillo, and his agriculture minister, Jorge Rojo Lujo.

Fitfully funny, thanks primarily to the energetic efforts of Mr. O'Hare, but mostly just a puzzling fizzle, "Elling" was adapted by the British playwright Simon Bent from the novels by Ingvar Ambjornsen and the Norwegian movie and stage versions written by Axel Hellstenius and Petter Naess.

By challenging the oft-cited distinction between "good" civic and "bad" ethnic nationalisms and drawing attention to the energetic efforts of republicans to create a cross-border partnership to defend democracy, Hochman emphasizes that the triumph of Nazi ideas about nationalism and politics was far from inevitable.

But in spite of the energetic efforts of some of the Valley's finest venture capitalists, most people are happy to make do with cars, bicycles or their own foot power.

Charles Isherwood of The New York Times said, "Fitfully funny, thanks primarily to the energetic efforts of Mr. O'Hare, but mostly just a puzzling fizzle".

December 3, 1852 Whitehall, Kentucky July 20, 1922 Richmond, Kentucky Belle Harris Bennett, in full Isabel Harris Bennett (born Dec. 3, 1852, Whitehall, near Richmond, Ky., U.S. died July 20, 1922, Richmond), American church worker whose energetic efforts on behalf of Christian education and missions culminated in the granting of full lay status to women in the Southern Methodist Church.

On Saturday night, it was Woodson's bench that reminded the Knicks of their new winning ways — that aggressive and energetic efforts on defense can mesh with a wide-open, democratic offense.

Of course energetic efforts to reduce the frequency and severity of public drunkenness still continued.

Historically, the soferim are of great importance, not only for having initiated rabbinic studies but also for having fixed the canon of Old Testament Scriptures and, as copyists and editors, for their energetic efforts to safeguard the purity of the original text.

In that capacity, she continued her energetic efforts to improve the healthcare of infants and children.