The phrase
"deliberate effort" refers to purposefully and consciously putting in hard work or focus towards achieving a goal or completing a task.
Full definition
It will take commitment and
deliberate effort at the beginning, but like all habits, my proposed new year's resolution will become second nature for us.
Much like developing the skills and knowledge that you need to advance as a teacher, becoming more optimistic
entails deliberate effort.
Hogan found that «gritty women lawyers» work harder than peers, are more likely to engage
in deliberate efforts to improve performance, are more likely to «stay the course» and make it through challenges.
At the provincial level, land - restriction policies such as the Agricultural Land Reserve around Vancouver or the greenbelt that surrounds Toronto need to be seen
as deliberate efforts to limit the space available for new housing.
Every good job I've gotten has come, to some degree or other, as a result
of deliberate efforts I made to get to know public interest lawyers / law students / etc.
Not only did it enable IO Interactive to continually update the game engine, thereby giving us the most up to date, a most
deliberate effort so far in the entire series.
A dark take on Google holidays could see it making its
own deliberate effort to transform the holiday structure.
Still more open to misconstruction was his
evidently deliberate effort to cultivate friendly relations with classes of people from whom it was a point of honor to hold aloof.
The comptroller's office defines BDS as «actions that are intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on, or limit commercial relations with the State of Israel; this
includes deliberate efforts to weaken the economy of Israel.»
Mr. Speaker, quite obviously the threat to the full realization of the Right of Abode provisions is lack of awareness and lack of a
conscious deliberate effort to utilize this tool to reconnect with Africans in the Diaspora whose roots remain in Africa.
Union leaders acknowledged that getting deals done was harder than it once was, though they
denied deliberate efforts to halt the negotiations.
But it is naïve to think that crisis management, through even the best journalism, will
overwhelm deliberate efforts to color the facts in order to achieve philosophical or economic objectives.
If care is not taken or you don't
make deliberate effort to pay off the card balance immediately, the balance may linger for a long time.
Vancouver's burgeoning technology community may aspire to become a nexus of money and talent akin to Silicon Valley, but it's making an ever
more deliberate effort to distinguish itself from the Bay Area's uncaring «tech bro» culture.
There is an assumption that deeper and more complex understanding will naturally emerge out of the accumulation of lower level knowledge, which is incorrect — that emergence
requires deliberate effort, and low - level assessments push the system in the opposite direction.
How can he tell Canadians not to borrow more when everyone knows he pushed rates down and kept them there in
a deliberate effort to get Canadians to borrow more?
It takes a consistent and
deliberate effort to build a great organizational culture, especially one focused on accountability.
As a Managing Director & a Market Head of Wealth Management Americas at UBS, Povlitz, believes long term wealth creation comes from discipline and
deliberate effort, not luck.
This requires a consistent and
deliberate effort and places this ability within reach of leaders at all levels.
He told a story of being stopped on the street by married couples who had met through Facebook, and said that he wanted to make a more
deliberate effort to bring couples together.
One can understand how after such an experience, more extreme expressions, more
deliberate efforts to shock, might be sought.
Social action here includes the usual meaning of sharing in movements toward social alleviation or reconstruction, and the wider sense of
any deliberate effort to bring Christian faith to bear on the way we live together.
African governments have also suffered from
deliberate efforts, at the behest of aid agencies with powers over development dogmas, to «shrink the state.»
While research by Barna Group has found that women are more involved than men in church «extracurriculars» such as Bible studies and small groups, plenty of today's churches lack robust women's ministries — perhaps due to lack of resources, or
deliberate efforts to do away with stereotypical ladies teas and craft bazaars.
T. S. Eliot once observed that our unconscious habits, especially our leisure lives, serve to shape our souls and form our imaginations far more decisively than
all our deliberate efforts to acquire high culture.
They followed their Grammy Award - winning album Joshua Tree with Rattle and Hum,
a deliberate effort to dig deeper into American music roots (blues, gospel and country), recorded in Sun Studios where Elvis Presley got his start.
They also result from the sheer complexity of many problems, but this fact of complexity too easily becomes a kind of umbrella under which the more
deliberate efforts to prevent change are the more effective.
[I am of course not saying that I think women should forgo basic hygiene in
a deliberate effort to spite their husbands.
Beyond the weekly belly laughs and heartbreaks, between which viewers are run up and back down the emotional register and are thereby «entertained,» there seems
a deliberate effort to probe much deeper questions — What should we do when someone dies?
In the case of Harpur's theory (that Jesus didn't exist, and that
deliberate efforts have been made to choose to make the myths interpreted literally), his evidence is not as convincing or as extensive as the evidence for Jesus having been a real person, on whom a certain religious and political systems have been formed and which have embellished, perverted, and developed certain aspects, with intentions both deliberate and unintentional.