Sentence examples for Meaningful attempt from inspiring English sources

They are overcrowded places, increasingly dangerous, and largely devoid of any meaningful attempt at rehabilitation.

Australia failed to capitalise on three early chances before Japan had a meaningful attempt.

For more than a century, every meaningful attempt at Supreme Court reform has collapsed, and not for lack of ingenuity.

The biggest disappointment for me about the Conference Committee compromises was that any meaningful attempt to deal with the rating agencies seems to have been abandoned.

I'm deeply troubled that lives may be lost without a meaningful attempt to bring Iraq into compliance with U.N. resolutions through careful and cautious diplomacy.

This paper presents a meaningful attempt for the research on compressive fracture of frozen soil, so as to better solve practical engineering problems.

The United States has made few meaningful attempts to address stillbirth.

A dysfunctional Football Association supported the big clubs, an act for which the governing body has never apologised nor made meaningful attempts to repair.

We conclude that meaningful attempts at biodiversity conservation must begin at the interface between ecological and social processes and incorporate locally developed knowledge and practice.

Perhaps it's no surprise that a team coached by a man who once mused that, "If you have possession of the ball you have a 79% chance of winning," failed to turn sideways passes into meaningful attempts on goal.

"You can never cure a lower back problem like that but we saw some significant improvements," he says, "so that triggered [the club's view] that maybe there's something more in this". Until then there had been a general acceptance that players would function better after a solid night's sleep, but no meaningful attempts at addressing it properly.