endeavours

For the past twenty years, he has figured prominently in endeavours to resolve several serious and long-lasting conflicts.

The Nobel Peace Prize 2008 - Press Release 2008

The Boeing Company certainly appears to be a company which knows its business, excels at it, and in its community endeavours is a good corporate citizen.

Free Trade and the Aerospace Industry 1987

Health services and education must now be regarded as twin endeavours, advancing mankind.

Canada's Health Charter: Its Implications 1965

It needs a lot of help, new ideas must be worked out, and I urge that you make this one of your main endeavours in the work of the clubs.

Canada in the World of Today 1962

She would sit making vain endeavours to arrange a large linen patch properly, till her cheeks were burning with excitement; and bend over a darn, doing her best to make invisible stitches, till Mrs. Vawse was obliged to assure her it was quite unnecessary to take so much pains.

The Wide, Wide World 1892

At the heart of their endeavours was the attempt to assert and promote African languages as having adequate structures and possibilities for rigorous literary work.

Pioneers of modern South African literature 2006

At the heart of their endeavours was the attempt to assert and promote African languages as having adequate structures and possibilities for rigorous literary work.

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They were devotees of the Red God, and their endeavours were a form of worship.

Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001

I did not need any long experience to perceive that complete and unmixed sympathy with my endeavours was a thing I should not find.

Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth Brandes, George, 1842-1927 1906

A man dissatisfied with his endeavours is a man tempted to sadness.

Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays 1892