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The Overhaul opens on "The Beach", a sonnet (that most enduring of poetic forms) as scene-setter for the poet's unending efforts : still working the same curved bay, all of us hoping for the marvellous, all hankering for a changed life.
Hooley never did it for the money -- his store has gone bankrupt more times than the airlines -- and he still doesn't have any savings, but his unending efforts to build peace through music are recognized now around the world.
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Both planetary science and cosmology are ripe for big news in 2011, the former in its effort to find planets beyond the Earth and the solar system that could harbor water and thus life as we know it, and the latter in the unending effort to figure out what the universe is made of.
Fashion editor Suzy Menkes writes that the unending effort for "newness" in fashion and the demands of creating four or more collections a year will cause more designers to crash and burn, citing John Galliano's meltdown and Alexander McQueen's suicide.
A better comparison might be with New York art dealer Peter Harris from Cunningham's 2010 novel, "By Nightfall," which centers on a character who, like his author, is conscious of "the unending effort to find a balance between sentiment and irony, between beauty and rigor," in the quest to "open a crack in the substance of the world through which mortal truth might shine".
Meanwhile new deals like the Medium Multi-role Combat Aircraft program, won by Dassault Aviation Group of France, are still on the negotiation table, adding to unending delays in modernization efforts.
AFTER years of congestion, grime and driving hazards, there is an end in sight to the seemingly unending construction on Interstate 287, an effort to remedy problems that surfaced not long after the expressway opened nearly 50 years ago.
This has been an important show for GM, which is showcasing some 80 cars and trucks in an effort to overcome the seemingly unending flow of bad news with a cavalcade of eye-catching, flashy vehicles capable of luring motorists and their checkbooks back into showrooms.
And for them to do that, the rules must be enforced, and the painful effort to make that happen must be unending and ruthless.
Dispassionately, Mr. Krist describes the frantic rescue efforts , the mounting fears of the passengers and the malevolent, unending storm.
The government has made little significant progress for more than a year, paralysed by its leader's efforts to provide himself with immunity from the courts along with an unending succession of scandals over his sex life and the alleged financial misconduct of ministers and officials.
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The phrase "unending efforts " functions as a noun phrase, where "unending" is an adjective modifying the noun "efforts". It describes the nature of the efforts as continuous and without cessation. Ludwig AI confirms its usability in written English.
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