Sentences with phrase «serious effort made»

There have also been some serious efforts made to improve its refinement in the face of a growing number of premium rivals.

Not exact matches

«It depends on what Republican and what they've done about it, and whether or not they've made a serious effort to try to address it,» Ayres said in an interview.

Long before it was possible to use Amazon Prime for your mass - manufactured Halloween costume, people put serious effort into making them.

It remains to be seen whether EU regulators will be satisfied with the changes Facebook has implemented, but it certainly looks like it's making a serious effort.

Communities across America rallied in efforts to show congress how serious the are about making efforts to address gun violence.

«He pushed the things that came easily as opposed to getting out there and making a serious effort to find an appropriate buyer,» recalls Blackburn.

«You are very likely to retire broke unless you make a serious effort to start putting some money away every month into a retirement account and let those funds compound over time,» said Patel.

She makes no effort to engage in the serious minded and easy to find rebuttals of her position by biblical scholars like James White, Donald Wold, James DeYoung, and Thomas Schmidt.

Millions of Chinese will testify to the gross injustices they suffered under the cultural revolution, which was the most serious effort thus far to make of China a radically socialist society.

The task force subsequently made no serious effort to accommodate the heavy criticism that the 1991 study document had drawn, although in the 1993 draft the radical feminist obsession with issues of power is less overt.

A serious effort has been made to reappraise both the causes and the nature of the American Revolution and the consequent development of the American Constitution.

In the particularly difficult question of global warming, thus far most economists have argued that it will be more efficient to respond to the problems caused by global warming as they occur than to make serious efforts to reduce it, since these efforts would slow economic growth.

While repudiating the notion that nuclear war in any circumstance can be a just war, the bishops say that they will tolerate for now the possession of nuclear weapons as long as serious efforts are made toward arms control.

The fact is that so far only one church in Reno has made a serious effort to deal with the problems of compulsive gamblers.

Making a serious effort toward an international concord on fixed exchange rates and free trade.

At its worst, it prevents us from taking ownership of our decisions and making serious effort to change the world.

Most serious of them all is the fact that we are simply not first - century Palestinian Jews, and that no effort of historical imagination can make us become such.

Humanists should acknowledge their membership in the contemporary world, seek to understand it in its own terms (which means making a serious effort to gain authentic scientific insight), assimilate its ideas into their world of composing, building, and analyzing, and assume responsibility for guiding the course of its further development.

Are we prepared to undertake the rigorous examination of parish, family and personal life styles called for in a world of scarcity, and as a Christian community to make a serious effort to understand and confront the systems which perpetuate the problem of separation between the rich and the poor?

Most couples who make a serious effort can achieve intimacy in several of the dimensions of their relationship.

This entails a closer look at major events already presented by Greene and now fleshed out with the accounts of other people: his life in and around the Berkhamstead School, where his father was headmaster; the more or less serious attempts at teenage suicide; the startling decision of the family to respond to this crisis by sending the boy to board with a psychoanalyst in London; later games of Russian roulette played all alone in an effort to beat boredom and make existence seem precious; and his conversion to Roman Catholicism.

Morrison never made the sustained effort needed to write even passable free verse, and his emotional range — from petulant narcissism to dead - serious angst — is far narrower than the least of his poetic idols.

Serious efforts should likewise be made to secure for foreign service in government and commerce men and women who are capable and dedicated, who will inspire confidence, respect, and affection in the people among whom they sojourn, and who will identify sympathetically with these people in attitudes and way of life rather than create little outposts of the home country in a foreign land.

There are no indications that the international donor community or national governments make a serious effort to change this.

So far as I am aware, our opponents have made no serious effort to answer or rebut this point.»)

And in the same way, what had to be done in the cases of same - sex marriage was a serious effort to draw on the substantive arguments, made by Robert George, Ryan Anderson, Sherif Girgis (and others of us) to explain again why the marriage of a man and woman is the most defensible form of marriage.

In his 1994 apostolic letter Tertio Millennio Adveniente, Pope John Paul II urged the faithful, both in local churches and at the highest levels of the hierarchy, to make a serious effort to recover those stories.

The more serious effort to concern itself primarily with ethical rather than theological problems, as the followers of Bonhoeffer have done, has led them outside the framework of biblical language and judgment, and has tended to dissolve their religious answers either into personal morality or social activism which, while serious in its intention, has made them weathercocks turning freely in the cultural winds.

If a person is not making a serious effort to choose foods that meet the nutrients needed, either sex / gender will encounter problems.

«For example, we were the first ones to make a serious effort to use lentils in gluten - free pasta,» Nadler says.

on all your points... «fanbase blaming the one good player»... «I have serious doubt whether about 1/3 of the current roster belongs in the league at all»... «wish they would have made at least an effort at extending Kane»

Toronto is a very strong team and they were absolute favorite but I can not overlook the fact if we made more effort and more serious approach we would create better result.

Lacazette doen't really fit the Arsenal (Arsene) mould — that's why no serious effort has been made to sign him.

This is just a make weight article there are NO talks between Icardi and Wenger, Theres nothing going on between Higuian and Wenger, there was never anything being talked about between Morata and Wenger, the last person Arsenal were serious about talking to was Vardy and that was ONLY because he was the striker who's name was on everybodys lips at that point, and even vardy (as dense as he appears) realised that the whole thing was just an approach to make it seem like Wenger vwas making an effort to sighn someone.

My opinion is the mid-major that makes a serious effort to challenge themselves should get that pass.

2 - Make a serious effort in revamping the squad!

I made a serious effort to get reacquainted with bike riding last summer.

I am making a serious effort to cut down on paper towels, and napkins.

Sure there are plenty of free themes out there, but putting a little time, money, and effort into making your blog design great shows that you are serious about being successful.

Lastly — we recognise the importance of including expectant dads within the rest of the care we provide, and are making serious efforts to invite them in and include them: we know that almost all of these young men really do want to be involved and learn how to support their partner.

However, if signs of pain persist despite your best efforts, talk to your pediatrician to make sure there isn't a more serious problem.

Some even put serious effort into making sure that their newborns are perfectly styled for appointments to the pediatrician.

Since then, despite all the efforts that have been made to tackle the issue of budget fraud within the EU, a report by the EU internal audit service in 2003 revealed serious impropriety at Eurostat, the EU statistics agency, where large sums of money had been diverted by officials for more than a decade.

«Instead of respecting the right of citizens in every state to make the laws they wish regarding marriage, and instead of focusing on the serious economic problems confronting our state and our nation, Kirsten Gillibrand has chosen to focus on a national campaign pledging to, in her words, «take this fight all across the country,» in an effort to impose her own personal social agenda.»

Now, under Brown, with Harriet Harman's Equality Bill and the creation of the Government Equalities Office, a serious effort is being made to measure what is happening.

«The NASUWT has made every effort to secure an agreed way forward through negotiation, but the employer has refused to listen to the serious concerns of teachers about the unacceptable practices being adopted for the monitoring of teachers.

The Deputy President of the Senate Chief Ike Ekweremadu, weekend said the people of the South - East were making serious efforts to recover from the devastating effects...

While it doesn't mean a natural disaster such as a flood can't happen again, it does mean that we're making efforts to try to prevent serious damage.

At the resumed of the case, counsel to the EFCC Mr Oluwaleke Atolagbe informed Justice Baba Yusuf that he had made serious efforts through the EFCC to contact the DSS to produce the first defendant in court and regretted that as at the time the court was sitting his efforts did not yield fruitful result.

The region is making serious efforts to boost economic growth, with Binghamton University playing a key role in fostering local business activity.