Word: endeavored
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...author of Examining Your Doctor: A Patient's Guide to Avoiding Harmful Medical Care. "But a lot of gym yoga is about who can do this really difficult contortion to display to everyone else in the class." The workout warriors have to realize that yoga is more an Athenian endeavor than a Spartan one. You don't win by punishing your body. You convince it, seduce it, talk it down from the ledge of ambition and anxiety. Yoga is not a struggle but a surrender...
...With support systems like this in place, home schooling certainly wasn't the lonely endeavor I'd imagined it - long days chained to the kitchen table with a couple of library books and low-tech science experiments of my own making. And after an exhausting day in Denver, I'm at least willing to admit home schooling to the realm of the possible - even the doable - provided I can ditch the lesson about the sheep's brain...
...helping fancy Harvard kids, are an endangered species around here—not because it’s so hard to find such people, but because the University now “outsources,” viewing labor as an inorganic commodity rather than a human enterprise and an endeavor of communities. This is in order to keep costs down, which is an admirable and even a necessary priority at this sprawlingly expensive place...
...Rudenstine’s renovations were not a purely artistic endeavor. He carefully combined his aesthetic vision with his fundamental goal for the University—to knit the faculties together. The remodeling of the Harvard Union paved the way for a new, centralized humanities complex, The Barker Center for the Humanities. Likewise, restoration of the 140-year-old Boylston Hall brought together five other humanities departments...
...found his presentation of the new endeavor very compelling,” she says...