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make an effort
1. Scarily, I narrowly miss hitting the car in front of me when it stops at traffic lights … I make an effort to concentrate on my driving
2. So why weren't the Congo Wars included under Deaths by Incompetence? Because many officials in governments did make an effort to end the violence
3. This allows us to use the concept of faith to make an effort to establish the Bible as our truth
4. insist that he still make an effort at helping her care for
5. ” Falgaroth chortled, but he and Visinniria did make an effort to pull themselves together
6. The rich and educated Indians were afraid of losing their status or well paying job and did not want to make an effort out of shear self-interest, apathy, and fear to bring about any change in status quo
7. h) ALWAYS TRY TO MAKE AN EFFORTv 4AYLOR RESPONDED h!FTER ALL THE MORE ) KNOW ABOUT MY BOSS
8. " After she and Miriam had talked this matter over, they decided to make an effort to stop it before Jesus learned about it, by going direct to Rebecca, laying the whole story before her, and honestly telling her about their belief that Jesus was a son of destiny; that he was to become a great religious leader, perhaps the Messiah
9. With that approach, the store may have more pressure to make an effort to push the books
10. This aspect of the course I was truly fascinated by and I will try and make an effort in to visit the guys again to explore this level in more depth
11. “listen”—“to make an effort to hear something, to wait alertly in order to hear a sound
12. And in spite of the silence that reigns except when, for a desperate moment, I make an effort to be amusing, there is a curious feeling that we are really living in a state of muffled uproar, in a constant condition of barely suppressed brawl
13. "Still, I think that you can at least make an effort in trying to win Puteri Farida's heart, marriage is not only about rolling around making children, it's about companionship, loyalty, and emotional happiness
14. The few curious people left on Earth who make an effort to understand our surroundings, like myself, know you exist, but everyone wonders about who you really are
15. Make an effort to eat good fats
16. Up in the mountains everyone appreciates it if the others are determined and make an effort
17. Honestly, I really had to make an effort not to be left behind
18. That Kepler was the only one that knows what gravity is we can see when we make an effort to
19. I hoped that in her infirm and battered brain she was building up hope, that there was a glimmer of happiness, an intention to make an effort
20. We make sure, every day of every week or every year, we have food, shelter, heating, light and all the bills are paid, we must make an effort to be sociable and we must care for our family
21. A Mockery Of Truth And A Blasphemy Against Deity: "My opponent will make an effort to try and demonstrate that our loving, compassionate, merciful God will be content with nothing less than the perpetual, never diminishing, horrific torture of the vast majority of mankind
22. Al Maxey, "My opponent will make an effort to try and demonstrate that our loving, compas-sionate, merciful God will be content with nothing less than the perpetual, never diminishing, horrific torture of the vast majority of mankind
23. You should still make an effort to make sure that you are controlling the physical reactions which your body has gone used to while you were smoking
24. He determined to make an effort to help those less fortunate than himself
25. I expect you both to make an effort to mend relations between you
26. "Now let me make an effort to walk," she said, when they had entered the forest, blushing, though unseen, that she had not been sooner able to quit the arms of Duncan; "I am indeed restored
27. She had to make an effort to breathe normally, to meet his eye with feigned indifference, and to slow her speech to a moderate speed
28. “In that case my advice is clear: make an effort with the boy
29. He had to make an effort to master himself, and to
30. she seemed to make an effort to control herself, to try not to show these signs of delight, but they came out on her face of themselves
31. ‘No, I must sleep!’ He moved the cushion up, and pressed his head into it, but he had to make an effort to keep his eyes shut
32. She could not even say again: “Make an effort to live
33. In addition, many traders prefer to trade higher time frames, and they make an effort to not focus on the short-term fluctuations in the markets they trade
34. Ordinarily I would not have come without special reason, but just at present I am so interested in him that I would gladly make an effort
35. I think we make an effort each to cheer the other, in the doing so we cheer ourselves
36. Besides, to tell everything as it really happened, it would have been necessary to make an effort of will to tell only what happened
37. It’s strange how many people make an effort to save on things like clothes and eating out, but when it comes to large purchases like cars, make poor decisions and erase any savings they’ve accumulated along the way
38. Some people have gone out, and when the hearing is resumed, you might make an effort
39. "I have never made an effort," he says, "and never propose to make an effort; I have never countenanced an effort, and never mean to countenance an effort, to disturb the arrangement as originally made, by which the various States came into the Union
40. " What a scoundrel that Touchard was, though ! I have not given up all hope, however, that 3'ou may make an effort and forgive us for all that at last, and that we may all live happy ever after
41. When she entered the room, without looking at her, he felt her presence with all his being, and had to make an effort not to look at her
42. I am so placed that I not only have no desire to vindicate myself; but, on the contrary, I find it necessary to make an effort lest I should exaggerate the wickedness of the great among whom I live, of whose society I am ashamed, whose attitude towards their fellow-men I detest with my whole soul, though I find it impossible to separate my lot from theirs
43. And as the man asleep needs but make an effort of his consciousness and ask himself whether it is not a dream, in order that what to him appeared as such a hopeless state may be at once destroyed, and he may awaken to a calm and joyous reality, even so the modern man needs only make an effort of his consciousness, needs only doubt in the reality of what his own and the surrounding hypocrisy presents to him, and ask himself whether it is not all a deception, in order that he may immediately feel himself at once passing over, like the awakened man, from the imaginary, terrible world to the real, to the calm and joyous reality
44. The kingdom of God is taken by force and only those who make an effort get hold of it,—and it is this effort of the renunciation of the change of the external conditions for the recognition and profession of truth which is the effort by means of which the kingdom of God is taken and which must and can be made in our time
45. I remember how I, absent-mindedly reading one of these descriptions of the solemnity of the reception of the sailors, suddenly felt a feeling, akin to meekness of spirit, even a readiness for tears, communicated to me, so that I had to make an effort to overcome this feeling
46. Everything depends upon the strength of conviction of each individual man in regard to Christian truth—But the advanced men of the present day consider it unnecessary to explain and profess Christian truth, regarding it sufficient for the improvement of human life to change its outward conditions within the limits allowed by power—Upon this scientific theory of hypocrisy, which has taken the place of the hypocrisy of religion, men of the wealthy classes base the justification of their position—In consequence of this hypocrisy, maintained by violence and falsehood, they can pretend before each other to be Christians, and rest content—The same hypocrisy allows men who preach the Christian doctrine to take part in a régime of violence—No external improvements of life can make it less miserable; its miseries are caused by disunion; disunion springs from following falsehood instead of truth—Union is possible only in truth—Hypocrisy forbids such a union, for while remaining hypocrites, men conceal from themselves and others the truth they know—Hypocrisy changes into evil everything destined to ameliorate life—It perverts the conception of right and wrong, and therefore is a bar to the perfection of men—Acknowledged malefactors and criminals do less harm than those who live by legalized violence cloaked by hypocrisy—All recognize the iniquity of our life, and would long since have modified it, if it were not covered by the cloak of hypocrisy—But it seems as if we had reached the limits of hypocrisy, and have but to make an effort of consciousness in order to awaken—like the man who has nightmare—to a different reality
47. Everything Depends on the Strength of the Consciousness of Christian Truths in Each Individual Man—The Leading Men of Modern Times, however, do not Think it Necessary to Preach or Practice the Truths of Christianity, but Regard the Modification of the External Conditions of Existence within the Limit Imposed by Governments as Sufficient to Reform the Life of Humanity—On this Scientific Theory of Hypocrisy, which has Replaced the Hypocrisy of Religion, Men of the Wealthy Classes Base their Justification of their Position—Through this Hypocrisy they can Enjoy the Exclusive Privileges of their Position by Force and Fraud, and Still Pretend to be Christians to One Another and be Easy in their Minds—This Hypocrisy Allows Men who Preach Christianity to Take Part in Institutions Based on Violence—No External Reformation of Life will Render it Less Miserable—Its Misery the Result of Disunion Caused by Following Lies, not the Truth—Union only Possible in Truth—Hypocrisy Hinders this Union, since Hypocrites Conceal from themselves and Others the Truth they Know—Hypocrisy Turns all Reforms of Life to Evil—Hypocrisy Distorts the Idea of Good and Evil, and so Stands in the Way of the Progress of Men toward Perfection—Undisguised Criminals and Malefactors do Less Harm than those who Live by Legalized Violence, Disguised by Hypocrisy—All Men Feel the Iniquity of our Life, and would Long Ago have Transformed it if it had not been Dissimulated by Hypocrisy—But Seem to have Reached the Extreme Limits of Hypocrisy, and we Need only Make an Effort of Conscience to Awaken as from a Nightmare to a Different Reality
48. Instead, then, of passing this bill, and spending the blood and treasure of our countrymen in the prosecution of this war, I conceive it our duty to make an effort for the sanction of our just rights, and the restoration of peace, without a further appeal to force
