Sentence examples for sacred effort from inspiring English sources

"Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Douglasss answered, "that was a sacred effort".

The abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass called it "a sacred effort".

"I saw you in the crowd today, listening to my inaugural address," Lincoln remarked to Frederick Douglass at the White House reception on the night of March 4. "How did you like it?" "Mr. Lincoln," Douglass answered, "that was a sacred effort".

"Mr. Lincoln, that was a sacred effort," Douglass said.

Mr. Zhou and some friends were planning to distribute T-shirts bearing Communist slogans such as "Labor is Sacred" in a cheeky effort to assert workers' rights.

On 23 January 1895, after his play Guy Domville had failed on the London stage, Henry James, in his early 50s, wrote in his Notebook: "I take up my old pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.

I, for one, am planning a pilgrimage to the Diana memorial, to throw holy water on the dressing and sing sacred incantations, hoping my efforts will keep the cursed monster trapped in its petal prison rather than breaking out, huge and in need of vengeance, and laying waste to the country.

In Los Angeles, he has made a valiant effort to render sacred space on a large scale, and he has done it without tricks or gimmicks.

Soon I realized that it's much more; it's a collective effort to reestablish sacred traditions, languages, and practices that have been suppressed for generations.

At its essence, the school-choice movement is a civil-rights crusade an effort to vindicate the sacred and unfulfilled promise of equal educational opportunities.

We all need to double down in our efforts to protect those sacred rights.