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Перевод: endeavour
[существительное] попытка ; старание; стремление; [глагол] прилагать усилия; стараться; силиться; пытаться; порываться; тщиться
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- Down on the river front of Old Chiswick, the firm of Thornycroft's continued to be busily occupied with their boat building, and one of their employees, Mr. R. T. Smith, made an approach to his engineer employer, John Donaldson, who was a good Scottish Presbyterian with strong Christian principles, for a loan of five pounds in order to enable him (R. T. Smith) to start a coffee stall in Church Street, in an endeavour to keep some of the other employees away from their regular visits to the Lamb Tap Inn.
- The irony is that having frittered our energies away in our endeavour to possess the object of our desire, having done all we can, even lied or deceived in order to obtain the object of our desire, we lose interest in that object because, whether consciously or not, we realize that we have not found lasting satisfaction or peace of mind.
- But Roddick did not immediately turn her trading experience into entrepreneurial endeavour when she grew up.
- Those likely to suffer most from this loss of collaborative endeavour will be the most vulnerable members of the community.
- I would anticipate that we should be able to complete the filming in under an hour and we will endeavour to cause the minimum of disruption to the normal working of the factory.
- The first fruits of their mental endeavour are a sobering awareness of the likely complexities of the post-war Middle East and an unease about the meagre quantity of strategic thinking going on in other European and Arab capitals.
- I went back to hospital on Sunday morning but it was not until Monday that we knew that "seldom in the world of human endeavour have so many owed so much to so few."
- Delegates asked the TEC for greater support and we will endeavour to help them.
- So I would endeavour to push these thoughts away.
- Absorption, so important to Peter Slade, is not a criterion for good quality endeavour.
- Although the most successful county in the District in demonstrating the effectiveness of a resident tutor through the considerable talents of Harold Shearman who had provided the building blocks for co-operative endeavour between the Cambridge Board and the WEA during the early thirties, the position began to change when he was succeeded by Harold Plaskitt as the university's resident tutor in 1936.
- Even after overcoming the tremendous technical difficulties of mining and smelting metals, the end result of all this endeavour was a raw material that still required the considerable skills of the metalsmith to turn it into artefacts, whether practical, artistic or both.
- And I will endeavour to do so in good time for the Swiss conference."
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