But we should beware of the sense of the inviolability of our own positions when what we really need is a serious effort to argue from all the relevant facts.
In his provocative and lively "Are We Rome?" Cullen Murphy provides these requisite caveats as he engages in a serious effort to draw lessons from a comparison of America's situation today with that of imperial Rome.
"AT&T's filing is not a serious effort to obtain relief from this court, but rather, is designed to cause the company competitive and commercial harm by falsely accusing it of misconduct at a time when the company is posed to emerge from bankruptcy," MCI said in its filing.
It is no surprise that Congress shied away from a serious effort to hold down overuse.
Zheng's generation is the first in China to have benefited from a serious effort to develop tennis talent.
Given our history, demography, current political circumstances and values, a serious effort to block illegal immigration from Africa – or any other region — is essential.
That said, he and most other analysts said that they expected a sharper deceleration in 2012, in part because of the bleak outlook for exports and the scant indication so far that Chinese leaders are making a serious effort to shift their economy from its export base to one driven by domestic consumption.
The Moses book, Mr. Cohen said, grew out of a discussion several years ago with Mr. Fisher about Mr. Mailer's 1997 autobiography of Jesus, "The Gospel According to the Son," a serious effort to tell Jesus's story from his own point of view.
Without a serious effort to solve this problem, the risk from climate change will be vastly increased and the planet will lose one of its most valuable, and most beautiful, assets.
[C2.] Money Laundering Bill Advances The Senate Banking Committee approved a bill to fight money laundering that would require banks and other financial institutions to make a serious effort to determine the source of deposits from foreign countries.
