Sentences with phrase «make earnest efforts»

Individual schools may not reflect the demography of their communities, but most make earnest efforts to create a diverse applicant pool.

I am really making an earnest effort to be a little bit more minimalist these days!

They talk often on the phone Schumer said and make an earnest effort to work in a bipartisan effort.

This may seem like a piddling quibble, but if you want women to trust that you have made an earnest effort to dissect a woman's psyche, don't just assume you know the details.

The film does seem to make an earnest effort to understand and celebrate long - distance relationships, with the feeling that first - hand experience has shaped the script.

Candela also reserves the right to reproduce the work in support of said exhibitions and will make an earnest effort to notify photographers when such reproductions occur and provide resulting tear sheets when possible.

I did make an earnest effort to read some of the site information that some people graciously posted.

Prove to the hiring professional that you made an earnest effort, that you've read the job description and that your resume and cover letter reflects the role requirements.

You may have the best personality in the world, and make an earnest effort to connect, but not everyone on the other end will be open to connecting.

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What's more, many of the campaign expenditures on Trump businesses may have been made before Trump began raising outside money in earnest, an effort which didn't begin until late June.

Despite my earnest efforts to make sessions on the sacraments, church history, the Bible, ethics and beliefs interesting, the last thing on earth these youth wanted was to be put through two more hours of school every Thursday during Lent.

Despite my earnest efforts to make sessions on the sacraments, church history, the Bible, ethics and...

From G4710; to use speed, that is, to make effort, be prompt or earnest: — do (give) diligence, be diligent (forward), endeavour, labour, study.

Cox's effort was to begin in earnest Wednesday night in an unpaid speech Cox will make in Buffalo to the Independent Oil and Gas Association of New York.

An earnest, top - down effort to make the voters listen to sense and political reality, with a brusque appeal to ignore the romantic, siren voices.

Researchers avoided the whole topic, as making any progress would require a lot of funding and effort to even get to the point of starting in earnest.

However, the film is very, very forgettable just because it becomes tedious after awhile, despite Washington's earnest effort to make it somewhat respectable - it is just a downright bore.

I don't understand how his latest effort, Men, Women & Children, came from the same guy that made Juno, a film whose characters felt so grounded and earnest.

Despite 15 years of earnest efforts to improve public schools and raise student achievement, states haven't made much progress.

Yet not to confront the challenges of structure and governance in public education in our time is to accept the glum fact that the most earnest of our other «reform» efforts can not gain enough traction to make a big dent in America's educational deficit, to produce a decent supply of quality alternatives to the traditional monopoly, or to defeat the adult interests that typically rule and benefit from that monopoly.

However, this time around Jeep has made a more earnest effort to turn the Grand Cherokee into a viable alternative to the Wrangler when venturing out where the pavement ends, while also retaining the livability of a typical SUV.

In her earnest, measured efforts to answer these questions, what it sounds like you're hearing from Robinson is, indeed, someone who's running hard to catch up with existing procedures and conditions not of her own making.

Pokemon - Amie is the often - publicized virtual pet - like feature that lets you interact directly with your Pokemon in an earnest effort to make the Pokemon universe feel that much more organic.

Undermining his own as well as anybody else's inclination to give earnest credit to his artistic effort, he cast his role as that of a sly scammer looking to make a buck.

It's frustrating because, despite your earnest efforts, requests, and pleadings, you can't seem to make a breakthrough to accomplish your goals.