valiantly

valiant | American Dictionary

valiant
adjective
us/ˈvæl·jənt/
brave or determined, esp. when conditions are difficult or dangerous:
The team made a valiant effort to take the lead in the third quarter, but they were too far behind.

Examples of valiant

valiant
It is a valiant effort to make sense of almost all current information on states of consciousness, organizing it according to three simple-sounding dimensions.
The editors have made a valiant attempt to pull together an eclectic mix of information.
The extremely broad content really does make a valiant effort to cover all aspects of 'music in the school'.
Each of the various authors makes valiant efforts to echo this concern for the long term.
This is only to be expected in what is nevertheless a valiant attempt to co-ordinate rapidly research findings on such a major new policy initiative.
The rhetoric of a ' war on ageing ' positions the practitioners of anti-ageing medicine on moral high ground, as valiant warriors against a terrible fate.
It is a valiant, and impressively successful, effort and one which is a joy to read.
Yet, taken as a whole, this valiant effort is not wholly successful.
Chapter 2 describes the digital encoding process, and in a valiant attempt to make the explanations simple, some unusual problems have crept in.
As a result, the coverage and the references in these two chapters are a superficial summary, albeit a valiant one.
In their introduction to the volume, the editors make a valiant, if ultimately doomed, effort to tie together the disparate strands from all these papers into a unified whole.
Valiant as our cottage-industry efforts were, we finally recognized that any effort short of a nationally co-ordinated massproduction effort would be inevitably overwhelmed by the inexorable rate of continuing deterioration.
Players and spectators alike have only one thing in mind as the titans clash in valiant effort to defeat their opponents and win that cup at the end.
It was a valiant attempt to reunite body and architecture - to put people before krypton atoms and the speed of light, to save mankind from the abstractions of pure science.
Despite valiant, if misguided, efforts to romanticize the role of a census bureau, it is not immediately obvious what political and substantive role a census plays in a polity.
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