The phrase "actual efforts" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It can be used to describe real or tangible actions that have been taken to achieve a certain result or goal. Example: Despite putting in actual efforts to improve her grades, Maria still struggled to pass her exams.
It's still unclear which candidates will choose to compete in the straw poll and mount actual efforts to attract Iowans.
John Morton, the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also known as ICE, challenged Mr. Smith's view, calling it "a misleading picture of the facts and a disservice to our actual efforts".
The complaint, filed by Fred Karger, founder of the group Californians Against Hate, asserted that the church's reported contributions — about $5,000, according to state election filings — vastly underestimated its actual efforts in passing Proposition 8, which amended the state's Constitution to recognize only male-female marriage.
First, suppose we insist that counterfactual levels of effort are simply irrelevant to luck-neutralization: ex hypothesi, one's actual levels of effort are not a matter of luck, and a luck-neutralizing distribution should fit the distribution of actual efforts.
For example, although candidate Obama promised to usher in an era of bipartisan cooperation, in his actual efforts to win legislative victories and political debates he frequently chooses to use Alinsky's 13th, and probably most famous, rule: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it".
"If you do have actual efforts to separate these areas from Ukraine, this will not be bloodless".
(An engrossing documentary film of the same name reveals the actual effort involved; it will be screened in San Francisco beginning next week, and in New York next month).
The target announced Thursday "is not so low that China can get to it easily without actual effort, nor is it too high to believe," said Jin Jiaman, executive director of the Global Environmental Institute, an advocacy group based in Beijing.
Analysis of pay-setting practices suggests that corporate boards try to pay their own chief executives more than those at comparable companies, creating a ratchet effect that has more to do with relative status than actual effort.
Hirst's answer to this is to admit cheerfully that, yes, he uses his studio staff to do a lot of the work, because he found the actual effort of painting "bored" him but then that is all part of the artistic tradition.
Stunt or actual effort to prevent "bottlenecks?" You decide.
