take special pains

Smuggling cartels that control border traffic take special pains to send these migrants when they know agents are occupied elsewhere.

"If we want tomorrow's scientists, entrepreneurs, and inventors to 'look like America,' our schools need to take special pains with the education of high- ability kids from disadvantaged circumstances," the report notes.

"Yes, I tipped the man who is at the head of the sail-making gang a five-pound note to take special pains with them, and the money would have been well laid out if it had been fifty times as much; for it will make the difference of a point at least when she is close-hauled, and that means getting away from a fellow too big for us, instead of being overhauled by him."

At times it will happen that two queens will come to life together, though this occurrence is rare, as the bees take special pains to prevent it.

You see how I am, shut up here with ghosts like Lazarus; and as for these people here, they take special pains not to tell me anything which could interest or distract me,--they prefer to be silent or else sigh and complain.