Sentence examples for attempt to refine from inspiring English sources

Architectural projects from the time, many of them built for artists and their patrons - attempt to refine and reduce architectural design to elemental components.

He'd assumed that on some level his revelation wouldn't be taken as a revelation — that the world knew by now that Internet companies collate and analyze data about their users, and often manipulate behavior, in an attempt to refine their services or to achieve world domination.

Saccharin was added to the electroplating bath in an attempt to refine grain size.

A first attempt to refine this constant can be found in [39].

An exploratory factor analysis with principal component extraction was performed in an attempt to refine the instrument.

Over the past 20 years, several prognostic models have been developed in an attempt to refine the clinician's predictive ability.

Because of concerns about its inadequacy - and the impact on the Iraqi people - we made several attempts to refine it, culminating in a new UN resolution in May of this year.

Recent efforts in international economics have attempted to refine the Heckscher-Ohlin model and test it on a wider range of empirical evidence.

Though Iran attempted to refine heavy grade Forouzan oil for the first time at its Bandar Abbas refinery in August 2008, it is unclear whether, and to what extent, the effort to refine the heavy oil was successful.

Such changes, and attempts to refine the criteria for any particular rating, represent an earnest attempt to keep abreast of public sensitivities even as they also suggest the quixotic nature of the enterprise.

One of these, the chalumeau (a term also used for a double-reed instrument), was known to Denner; apparently his attempts to refine the chalumeau led to his invention of the clarinet.