Herculean effort

She could almost feel the herculean effort he was making to stay calm.

It's a resolution that takes a herculean effort to keep.

Based on his herculean effort today, he belongs in this company.

With a herculean effort he flung himself into the river.

Maybe the Democrats can blow 2006 as they did 2004, but not without herculean effort.

"We're only able to be in this position because of herculean efforts" by employees, he said.

It was only through his mother's Herculean efforts that the family stayed together at all.

He dropped his hand again, made what appeared to be a herculean effort for control.

All his Herculean efforts to move it were in vain.

The fat man couldn't get to his feet without an herculean effort.

But it was going to take a herculean effort to beat me."

It worked, but had required herculean efforts to draw visitors.

I smiled right back, though, for just that instant, it was a Herculean effort.

"It may fail, but there should be herculean efforts to try," he said.

He also said the department had mounted "a Herculean effort" to consult state officials.

No matter what kind of Herculean efforts they put forth, in the end, parents have only four hands and two laps between them.

"They had a basic cancer, and Herculean efforts might not have been able to overcome what happened to that company," he said.

It was a herculean effort not to bellow with rage.

And it may take a Herculean effort to believe that Rose has more than one side to him.

Tarzan made a single Herculean effort to throw himself forward, but it was too late.

I must owe this to our qualified teaching staff who, by their herculean efforts, have made the students what they are today.

However, we have had a rapporteur who has made a Herculean effort to try to achieve this.

- is a truly herculean effort that has to be applauded.

For a moment the curtains are pulled back and we see what motivates this herculean effort.

But turning the franchise around will take a herculean effort and a large dose of patience.