Sentence examples for impatient efforts from inspiring English sources

Well, we don't know about Republicans, but we do know what The Economist said, in 1848, about proposals for a London sewer system: Suffering and evil are nature's admonitions; they cannot be got rid of; and the impatient efforts of benevolence to banish them from the world by legislation, before benevolence has learned their object and their end, have always been more productive of evil than good.

Mr. Lanzmann is similarly impatient with efforts to explain the Holocaust.

Impatient with the efforts of his dealer, Ileana Sonnabend, to finance his earlier work, he turned to Deitch for help in producing the new series, which involved setting up a large studio and hiring dozens of assistants.

Ross is as impatient with Palestinian efforts to gain a more sympathetic hearing at the United Nations and elsewhere as he is sensitive to the political needs of Israeli Prime Ministers.

Young audience members quickly grew impatient with the effort.

His gift came to represent for many the worst of philanthropic hubris — an impatient, big-footed effort to parachute into a city he knew little about, with a team of high-priced consultants and scheming politicians, and with little consultation with the families and teachers he purported to be saving from rotten schools.

(The lawyers bankrolled Democrats to thwart tort reform; companies grew impatient and started funding efforts to replace plaintiff-friendly judges).

The police will not say whether they suspect a serial killer, but people in the community about 60 miles northeast of Raleigh do, and they are impatient with law enforcement efforts to investigate the killings.

Some were fierce-eyed, angry, and impatient, and made no effort to disguise their mood.

The remarks represent a familiar tension between coaches, who are impatient for constant, tangible effort, and forwards, whose artistry is spontaneous and not easily summoned on demand.

By 1977, he still had nothing to show for his efforts, and the impatient Israelis canceled the funding.