Sentence examples for struggled to make a difference from inspiring English sources

As transnational terrorist groups have emerged as a pressing global problem, the United Nations has struggled to make a difference.

Cardinals: Rashede Hageman (DT, Minnesota) 2013 Stats: 13 games played, 38 tackles, 13 tackles for loss, 2 sacks, 1 INT, 8 pass deflections The Cardinals have dynamic players on the edges and in their secondary, but have struggled to make a difference up the middle.

Ms. Angelei said that struggling to make a difference is not easy but that not trying means becoming part of the problem.

"Refuge and Women's Aid are struggling to make a difference but we can't do it on our own, we need proper government funding and commitment to get sex and healthy relationships education into every school in the UK," she said.

It's also a modest positive for fathers -- paying "child support" that doesn't go to your children is demoralizing for low-income men struggling to make a difference in their kids' lives.

And like me, they are women struggling to make a difference in their communities, as entrepreneurs, political candidates, and heads of non-profits, and as women who face significant obstacles towards full equality.

But even weaker moments -- like the melodramatic story of aid groups struggling to make a difference called "On the Side of the Angels" by Richard Bean or the stiff, unconvincing "Now Is the Time" by Joy Wilkinson about the flight of the King of Afghanistan in 1929 -- add to our insights of the country as a whole.

Amnesty has underscored this by printing bookmarks reading: "Poems That Make Grown Women Cry is emblematic not just of the human struggle to make a difference, but of ongoing efforts for gender equality.

'LUMUMBA' -- From the director Raoul Peck, a thorough and tough-minded bio-pic on the first prime minister of the Congo and his uphill struggle to make a difference while dealing with attempts to undermine his efforts on all sides; the picture ends with the rise of a new tyranny that will be as horrifying as Belgian rule.

The 99 percent were the lower-income people in this country — the rest of us — struggling to make a change, make a difference and just make a living while the stiff, arthritic grip of the top 1 percent sought to manipulate the social, political and economic levers of powers.

"And we're struggling to make a mark".